School!

I have started school again. I almost dropped the semester three times before my first day. I was very apprehensive about going back for a few reasons. Berkeley leaves for tech school next month and will be gone for the rest of the semester, single parenting is exhausting, finding time to do homework without a ten month old needing me every two minutes, and having someone else babysit for me every day were just some of my worries. Well, I stayed enrolled and I am SO HAPPY that I did. My mom and mother-in-law have been so sweet to take turns tending Asa throughout the week and I am at ease because I trust them the most with my baby. It has been wonderful to feel like I have something more to focus on and that I am once again progressing, learning, and achieving. I am so close to having my degree and I am so glad to be back at work on it. It is also FANTASTIC to have a couple hours a day to myself. I commute to Weber which is about a 25 min drive each way so it's great just hooking up my I-Pod and singing music at the top of my lungs. I think being in school will make Berkeley's time away go much faster. The last time he was gone I had nothing to focus on but my extremely fussy baby and the fact that he was gone. This time Asa will be a thousand times easier to manage on my own and having school will force me to get out and think about other things. My classes are really interesting so far and I love that I have homework again...weird...but I really missed feeling like I was learning. I no longer feel the need to take daily trips to Wal-Mart just to get out of the house. School is great. What am I going to do when I graduate? Maybe enroll in some of those adult learning courses? Wow, that might make me feel like an oldie.