Not again!

Dang!  I took another math quiz tonight, worked on it for 3 hours, and I did worse than the previous 2 attempts.  I think the longer I think about the questions the more I confuse myself.  Kevin and Steven (2 of my sons that happen to be excellent in math) were both busy so they couldn't help.  My score is going the wrong direction.  I e-mailed the instructor and I am going to contact the tutor center in the morning to see if I can get some help.  The time is winding down in this class, only 3 weeks left out of 8 and I am getting behind. I will not quit, and failure is not an option.   I hope I get low censused at work so I can have some extra time to work on it.  I am thinking I need to get someone that knows math really well to sit down with me while I take the test.  Not to tell me the answers, but to tell me if I got it wrong, so I can work the problem again until I get it right.  How did I cope with the failure?  I went shopping!  Yeah, retail therapy...only problem is all of the stuff I bought was junkfood (candy, cookies, icecream, cheetohs).  I didn't eat it all, but I gave myself permission to if I wanted to.  Just knowing I could somehow made it so I didn't need to eat it all, does that make any sense? 

I got a letter from Michael today (my son on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints in Nicaragua).  He is starting to think about the time he will be released and have to leave the small branch he is currently leading. He wants to donate to them all the money he has to help them out. They are helping a young man prepare for his mission.  Since it is Michaels birthday this week he will be receiving money, and he plans on donating that to them, and we will add some extra.  We also forwarded his message to some of our friends.  His letter didn't just bring tears to my eyes, it made me cry.  It is amazing to see the growth in him during his mission.  Before his mission he never would have dreamed of giving away all his birthday money, let alone asking others to donate.  His mission has changed him, and I am very happy for that.  Not that he wasn't fantastic before, but I am glad he has picked up some selflessness along the way.  It will do him good in life. 

If you are interested in learning more about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints please check out  mormon.org (or you can go to lds.org, but that is more geared for people that already know a lot about the church).