Hello! I am writing this from my sister Ruth's house. I'm baby-sitting Ryan while Shawn gets his foot surgery. Ryan is currently sleeping. What a great kid he is! We've been cuddling all afternoon. I love having physical intimacy with people I love.

This is going to be a really wonderful week for me. I went shopping yesterday and bought TONS of stuff. Tomorrow I'm taking Andrew out to dinner for his birthday and giving him the fun shirt I bought him. He needs un-preppy clothes to go with the dreds he's gonna have soon. (By the way, we're back to being "just friends," for the time being at least, because we want to get to know each other better before getting into a serious relationship. It's a good idea, I think. We just kind of blindly jumped into things.) And then Thursday night, I'm hanging out with Karen because she gets to come home early for Easter, UD being a Catholic school and all...I guess they figure their kiddies need a couple of days off to honor the big JC. And Friday the WHOLE Van will be home. It's been SO long since we've all been together, under the same roof. I don't know what we're all going to do yet, but I'm SO excited. So Friday and Saturday will be spent with the Van. Sunday is Easter...and I'm sure I'll be dragging my Statistics along with me because I have a test Monday. I want anyone reading this to pray for me MADLY because this is the first set of material I really haven't understood, and if you flunk a test, you get kicked out of the class. And, keep in mind that this is the 2nd of the 3 classes I need to become a Psychology major. (Yeah, at UC you have to "become" one, you can't just BE one. Isn't that lame?) So, needless to say, I'm a wee bit stressed. Maybe I'll be divinely inspired to understand things by then...I sure hope so.

Wow, I guess that's all I have to say. I think I'm going to go to UC's website and see when we can register for summer classes. I'm debating on whether I want to take some or not. Hmm.

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