Woo Hoo!

I am so excited, because I talked to Margarett and Anne at Heaven Sent Births, and I can be an apprentice with them!!! I am going to get back with them closer to December, and see when I will start. I need to wait until this December because I need to free up some time away from classes at OSU. I am going to go and talk to my advisor tomorrow and get enrolled for next semester. I hope that I can just get classes on Tues and Thrs. that would be ideal!
Anne was asking me why I was still in school if I knew I wanted to be a midwife and wanted to get out of school. I told her that it was because I had alot of money invested into it and I didn't want to leave with alot of money in it. It would feel wasted. She told me that she didn't agree with that and that that was a bad reason to stay in school. The reason I am talking about this, is because it really made me think about why I am still in school. Why am I really still in school? To be able to fall back on it if I need it? For the past little while I have been mulling it over in my head and I think that I have figured out why I am still in school.
There are two reasons:
First, I really do love to learn. I may gripe about it but I am really happy when I am learning, And lastly it is important to me to finish something that I started. I want to follow through on something, not just quit in the middle because I had an ADD moment with some other thing that I enjoy doing. If I can finish this, then I know that I will follow through with the midwifery and being a good mom. It is not just about taking full advantage of the 25,000 dollars of debt I have accumulated, it is more about being a responsible adult! LOL, who knew ;) ? So rock on Amy and finish that college degree, by this time next year, I will be done :)

Just an Update

So nothing new has really happened lately. I have been going to work, going to class, and doing the midwifery studies at home. I am kind of proud of myself with keeping up with it. I am doing a lot of stuff, and so far I am not behind!! Woo hoo.
I have been very careful at being as organized as I should be with the assignments from AAMI. For those of you who do not know, AAMI is a correspondence Midwifery course that I am doing. It is very self directed, and supports the apprenticeship model of becoming a midwife. You have to be VERY self driven to do it. I think it helps alot though that I am in a small study group. It is really only 2 girls, but just talking to them and being able to work on stuff and have goals together really helps.
Tomorrow, I will be in OKC meeting with the people at Heaven Sent Births. This is the birthing center that I really hope I can apprentice with!!! My friend Camie is going to be there, she is already apprenticeing with them (I am so jealous of her right now, too!! She just attended her first apprentice birth!!! LUCKY GIRL!) and I get to meet her.
Well, it is way too late again and I should go to bed. Tomorrow is also Homecoming and we are going to take Caroline to the parade :) I will have to wake up a little earlier, so that my bread can bake for the meeting tomorrow! Until Next time :-D

Life as an aspiring midwife

Sometimes I feel discouraged beacause I feel like no one really wants to know the truth about birth and trust their bodies...but then it seems like God is reassuring me that I am doing what is his will. Today, I talked with a lady who was very excited to know about midwifery and didn't know that it was available to her. I gave her my number and told her that I could get her some resources that would allow her to be able to find the help and support she is looking for. It is nice to know that there are people who need us, all it took was letting her know that it was available...I wonder how often people do not get a midwife because they just do not know how to find one? I want to make it my mission to really get out the word to people and let them know ALL of their alternatives for birthing.
Ohhh, also another neat story of affirmation for me. Today, at the store, I was talking to a customer about health and trust and (as usual, lol) I told him about me attending AAMI to becoem a midwife. It turns out that his mother was a midwife and has been trying to get rid of her library of books and he said that he was going to talk to her and let me know if she is still looking for someone to take her library!!!! I am trying not to get too, excited, because it is really a long shot, but maybe this could work out!!