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I thought I would put this here for anyone interested.  I have pre-op coming and the surgery is next week.  I am still going to be scarce here until after I get home from the hospital.  I will try to get Dan to post when I come through surgery next week.  Your prayers are appreciated...

On a lighter note, I have one more class and a final and I AM DONE!!!

My Mom arrives tomorrow!!!  I am SO READY for her to be here and the kiddos are just bouncing off the walls in anticipation.  LOL 

Thought I would also share a bit of exciting news...  We take, what is called, a practical in our culinary classes.  The purpose of the test is to see where we stand.  It consists of a 3 1/2 hour free for all of baking which includes a yeast bread, dinner rolls, two kinds of cookies (chewy and crispy), eclairs, pastry cream and a plated dessert with five different elements.  It does NOT affect our final class grade but it gives the instructor a view of what we have learned and how much we need to learn in future classes.  In the past four years that my instructor has been teaching in the pastry classes there have only been four students that have passed this test in the baking fundamentals class.  The test is a pass/fail situation with a passing score being 375 points.  Well, a fifth student passed it last night with a score of exactly 375... that would be ME!!!  I was so very thrilled!!!!!  The chef instructor was so encouraging and congratulatory, too.  I think I am doing what I am suppose to be doing...  I love my life!!!!!