For once I am able to get onto the computer in the evening.  I have turkey soup in the pot and am letting it cook down a bit.  It  has been a long day and I am almost glad to see the sun setting.  I am tired.

This week we have what I call a "head hunter" coming to discuss schooling opportunities for our eldest son.  He is set to finish  his schooling this year and is exploring options for additional schooling.     He doesn't want to attend a college but is looking more at a tech. school for electrician (hubby's choice) or mechanic (what he is interested in now but who knows in the future).  The poor kid wants to know why he has to choose NOW.  I totally understand where he is coming from .   My family is a long line of late bloomers, finally deciding at age 28 or so what to do with the rest of our lives.  I tell him he doesn't have to decide now.    Hubby thinks he does.  I guess of the two of us I am more the free spirit.  Hubby comes from a family where money is the big thing.  He is the only kid of 8 that didn't go on to college and has heard about it since.  I am sorry but if there isn't a huge drive for a certain occupation I just do not see pushing it.  Let him decide on his own.

So I have this head hunter coming in on Wednesday night.  I am not happy about it knowing the kid is feeling pressured.  So I need to get  my questions together and just listen.  One is what are the job opportunities for here.  He is a country boy and I want him to have an occupation that will allow him to stay here or if he wants, move on.  He is not a city kid and like me, city life would kill him.  I understand that.

I try and tell him he can do whatever he wants.  If he wants to farm, go for it.  If he wants to be a mechanic that is great too.  I don't care as long as he is happy.  Isn't that what counts?  We are lucky here in the USA that we can follow our dreams.  Why do we limit ourselves?  It is all in the mind.

So this is what I have been praying about, that God puts the right questions in my mouth and opens my ears to hear my son's yearning.  It doesn't help that his girlfriend enlisted in the Navy for 6 years which will take her out of the area.  He has that weighing on his mind too.

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