Catch Up.

Well I am not very good at blogging, as you can tell.  My daughter is now 21 months old and such a girly girl and I love it, because I am not but it makes me feel good knowing my little girl has her own huge personality.  Kyler turned 3 this past July, He is so smart and picks up on things so fast! He amazes me everyday!  My wonderful husband does what he can to help out but he is going to school full time to be a Mechanical Engineer I am so proud of him and all he does for us I wish I could do more to help him out.   I started a new job a year ago that is about an hour away from were I live making my 10 hour work days into 12 total hours of being away from my family, I hate that I cannot be with them all the time and it hurts when my kids don't want anything to do with me when I get home or when I can't play because the house needs work and dinner needs to be made. So I decided with loving reassurance from Heavenly Father that I need to be a Dog Trainer.  I have trained dogs since I was 13 thanks to my friend McKenzi and Guide Dogs for the Blind. I have always loved dogs and by the time I was 13 I was totally obsessed with them I think my mom finally gave in because she was tired of it (I was afraid of dogs when I was a kid and a good excuse to not get one). Why I didn't realize that dog training is what I need to do earlier I don't know but I wish I had because it is perfect for my life to be able to stay home with my kids during the day and training at night and I can do it all from home because my garage is heated and I also have a huge family room in my basement.  The problem is reaching that goal.  I am not very good at setting goals and it is one of the reasons I think I am where I am in my life right now. It is not something they teach you very well in school probably because the teachers don't really understand them either.  Setting goals must be one of those gifts you are just born with or you end up spending the rest of your life trying to figure them out.  Anyways, I am currently trying to get my professional certificate from Penn Foster an accredited online college/career school (1st goal). At the same time I have helped out a few people with their training of their pets. I love seeing the accomplishments that the owners and dogs reach together, from working on fears to tricks and obedience.  I love seeing smiles on their faces knowing that they did something that seemed so hard and first and turned it into something better. I think I must be trying to move to fast and need to focus on the little goals first one by one and not all at once because I am just getting frustrated that nothing is working out the way I wanted to.  Maybe that is one of the things I am supposed to learn from all of this is how to set goals the right way.  I wish there was a magical hat that I could pull the answers out of, but then again how would we learn anything if it was just given to us?