Just Jess: Major change, Random Musings, and things

To start this post I want to put something that I saw as a post (on Facebook) by my boyfriends teacher Aunt that lives in Texas:

23,000 teachers were given pink slips in CA & 17,000 in IL. New Jersey & FL are cutting teacher jobs & reducing salaries as well. We need to get our priorities in order. Athletes get paid millions, but teachers who we trust to help raise & educate our kids get no respect! In honor of ALL teachers, copy & paste this into your status.

I have not looked into this to verify its truth, but if this is true (which I tend to think it is very possible it could be)this is disgusting and I think that we as a country spend waaaay too much money on other things but put off giving our children a good education, which is ridiculous, because in the "long run" the best possible thing they could do for the country is to educate the minds that will someday be in charge. Not only that, but I believe that it is a natural human instinct to want to learn and grow, and I just can't understand how we could deny our children that. This leaqds into my Major change. I am going to try and get into Pima's nursing program. I need about 5 more prereq's before I can apply to the program so next semester I am going to take classes towards that. I dont make this change lightly either. But with the current state of things, not only in our state, but in the whole country, I am afraid of coming out of school with all these student loans and not having a job available to me to start paying them back. That would not be such a big deal to me, if it was not for Cain. I need to be able to support my baby. Plus I've always said that I would explore nursing if I couldnt/changed my mind about education. I think I would be good at it, and my long term goal would be to work in labor and delivery. I think I would be good at it considering how interested I am in the birthing process, and I really think that my knowledge of the other (sad) side of what could happen would be a good quality and give me a unique empathy that would help me connect with patients. But I am getting ahead of myself. I need to get into the program first. I need to pass math 92 first. I need to make it through this year first.
On to some randomness. I've got a couple of different random things. First I was watching 20/20 tonight and they were talking about a woman who did not know she was pregnant. She already had 3 kids. WHAT?!? How can you have three kids and not know you are pregnant? how is it possible? It can't be? I could understand if it was her first child and she was like me and had irregular periods. I could get that. To a point. Even with how irregular I am I still managed to find out I was pregnant at about 6 weeks along. How do you not feel your baby moving? she had a 9lb 9oz BABY. how do you not feel that moving around in you?! Cain was 6lb 12oz and I felt him all the time. This idea is bizarre to me. what is even more bizarre is that her husband had had a vasectomy. There is less than a 1% chance that someone can get pregnant. Well either this girl won the "against all odds" lottery, or something else is going on. other randomness....

I watched this video that one of my facebook friends posted about a "nanny" babysitter. This lady was slamming an 11 month old on the ground, throwing him onto a playpen, smacking him across the back of his head, kicking him, kicking /throwing stuff at him. an 11 month old.that is only 1 month older than my sweets. All I could see when I watched that video was My baby sitting there playing with a ball and being hit by some grown ass woman. It made me cry for that poor innocent little child. A baby. Ive always hated reading about this stuff before and thought that people like this deserved to rot in whatever pit of despair they are thrown into. But now, to be a mother and see this makes me want to beat that woman senseless. I am sorry if that offends some of you, but if I EVER caught anyone doing that to my son they better call the cops on themselves and hope I dont get to them first. Not even just my son. ANY child. My son. My niece and nephew. The kids I care for at work. The kid across the street. The kid across town. You get the point. It makes me sick. I understand even less the parents that can do this to their children. I saw a new clip online about baby Brianna Lopez. I bawled for over an hour for this poor poor baby. She was only like 6 month old and her parents were MONSTERS. I am not going to go into it here, and if you plan to look it up I am warning you now her story is very horrifying. I dont believe in hell, but I hope her parents rot in it. I am sorry. This is morbid I know. But this is just something that I feel so strongly about lately.

Easter was good. We did Easter at my mom's the week before so on Easter weekend we went to Jav's mom's house. Saturday we went to My mom's BF's (Marcos') work for an egg hunt. Cain had a good time. I love to see that boy smile (which is all the time when he isn't cranky) I also love taking him to work with me. He always has so much fun playing with the other babies.

Sorry bout the late Easter stuff, I felt Grandma Sam deserved the first post for April.

I am tired, so I am leaving you with..... Pictures!!!