Well Here Goes Nothin!

This is my very first post and to be perfectly honest I'm a little nervous. What if I misspell every other word and everyone figures out that I'm not as smart as I act. Oh!! wonderful there is a spell check!
This is 2 of my children's 2nd week of school. Weston started High School and is saying out loud many positive comments about Westwood. Weston, at times, can be very hard to please. He smiles alot lately and melts my heart with his happiness. He is on the Golf Team and is loving Mr. Seaman's CP Chemistry class. He even wants me to take Spanish at MCC so we can talk to each other while we learn Spanish.
Kaytlyn started Junior High at Stapley and is having a great time also. She has already made new friends and is flirting(looking at and even tried the bend and snap) with a "really hot boy" in some of her classes. She was in the 7th grade choir and tried out for the advanced choir and made it!! How thrilling it is to watch her not let her fears stop her from doing what she wants to do.
All summer I have been working up my nerve to go to MCC and take the asset test to see where I should begin my learning for the brain dead. I finally did it last week. I was the oldest one in the testing center( this includes the people that work there). I was so nervous when I got there that something would go wrong that I went into the bookstore and bought alot of their pencil supply. What if my lead broke or I ran out of lead. I would definitely need back up lead. By the time I finished shopping I had notebooks and pencils enough for everyone in the room. I went into the room and lo there was pencils in little cups all over the place and scratch paper (no notebooks aloud) to use. I was a tad embarrassed when asked if I was going to take the Algebra test and did I need a calculator. I looked over the example and decided the numerical test was all I could handle. Every other person took the really hard(Greek to me) tests and I was sweating over the easy one. "That's OK "I told myself. " I am unique, it's fun to be different." I did as expected on the math test and must start pretty much at the beginning, but to my surprise I did fabulously on the Writing and Reading tests. They even recommended me for the "honors" classes!! I am thrilled and excited to begin my math class next week! I'm not too worried because I have a 7th grader who can help me.
I feel like life is the best teacher and that we should learn from all of our experiences. So.... what have I learned from this experience? " Don't let your fears win! Be led by your successes"