Showing posts with label balancing college and kids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label balancing college and kids. Show all posts
Saturday, April 2, 2011
How can it be that yet another semester of college is coming to an end? It seemed like this past semester just flew by at warp speed, twirled my around, caused me lots of sleepless nights, and then left me with a feeling of failure that I have yet to experience while attending college. I’m not sure if it was me starting Crash Test, or our move, or just life that got me off track this semester, but I am perfectly sure that this will go down as my worst semester to date!
I seemed to completely lose interest in my education this semester and as a result I missed tests, forgot to turn in assignments, and just pretty much decided to be a slacker…and now with the end of the semester SO close I’m kicking myself in the butt for letting it get this far. Tonight as I was finishing up my homework (that is due tomorrow by the way…can you say major procrastinator?) I decided to check my grades, and then I saw them and wanted to throw my computer out the window. Of course, I can’t really blame anyone but myself, I mean I am the one who decided that I could handle 5 classes, 4 kids, a 3 bedroom house to clean (by myself), 2 grown men living in that 3 bedroom house (oh don’t get all weird on me…I already told you we don’t go for the brother husbands thing lol) who seem to make more messes than my 4 legitimate children, and 1, nope scratch that, 2 blogs to keep up with…yeah frickin right. I’ve come to realize, the hard way I might add as I seem to have no desire to ever learn things the easy way, that I cannot do it all, I am not Super Woman (or Wonder Woman rather) and that I do need help…LOTS of help!
So I’ve decided to take the summer semester off from college, focus on my kids, and build my blogs and then go full force in the fall to get my classes finished and ace them all…and hopefully be that much closer to graduation…have I ever mentioned that a certain college algebra class is all that stands between me and my associates degree? Yes, well that my lovelies is the truth…I transferred schools needing only college algebra to get my associates degree…and the thought of that class makes me nauseous so I decided hell I might as well just switch schools and focus on my major…well, I did that and now I still have to take that God awful algebra class…how does algebra have anything to do with communication?
So in closing, and I promise I did have a point when I started writing this, though now that point escapes me, I am tired…and stressed…and majorly pissed about the way I handled this semester. So please take it from me, if you’re in school and you’re just over it, don’t give up, keep pushing yourself to do better and go further and before you know it you WILL graduate. It’s such a shame that I cannot seem to take my own advice…for whatever reason I rather like making life difficult for myself…yep definitely that…after all I did birth 4 children…it doesn’t get much more difficult than that!
I seemed to completely lose interest in my education this semester and as a result I missed tests, forgot to turn in assignments, and just pretty much decided to be a slacker…and now with the end of the semester SO close I’m kicking myself in the butt for letting it get this far. Tonight as I was finishing up my homework (that is due tomorrow by the way…can you say major procrastinator?) I decided to check my grades, and then I saw them and wanted to throw my computer out the window. Of course, I can’t really blame anyone but myself, I mean I am the one who decided that I could handle 5 classes, 4 kids, a 3 bedroom house to clean (by myself), 2 grown men living in that 3 bedroom house (oh don’t get all weird on me…I already told you we don’t go for the brother husbands thing lol) who seem to make more messes than my 4 legitimate children, and 1, nope scratch that, 2 blogs to keep up with…yeah frickin right. I’ve come to realize, the hard way I might add as I seem to have no desire to ever learn things the easy way, that I cannot do it all, I am not Super Woman (or Wonder Woman rather) and that I do need help…LOTS of help!
So I’ve decided to take the summer semester off from college, focus on my kids, and build my blogs and then go full force in the fall to get my classes finished and ace them all…and hopefully be that much closer to graduation…have I ever mentioned that a certain college algebra class is all that stands between me and my associates degree? Yes, well that my lovelies is the truth…I transferred schools needing only college algebra to get my associates degree…and the thought of that class makes me nauseous so I decided hell I might as well just switch schools and focus on my major…well, I did that and now I still have to take that God awful algebra class…how does algebra have anything to do with communication?
So in closing, and I promise I did have a point when I started writing this, though now that point escapes me, I am tired…and stressed…and majorly pissed about the way I handled this semester. So please take it from me, if you’re in school and you’re just over it, don’t give up, keep pushing yourself to do better and go further and before you know it you WILL graduate. It’s such a shame that I cannot seem to take my own advice…for whatever reason I rather like making life difficult for myself…yep definitely that…after all I did birth 4 children…it doesn’t get much more difficult than that!
Friday, October 29, 2010
It’s not often that I get to sit down and write a personal post, and I really have too much to do to be doing it now, but I needed to get some of the stuff I’ve been carrying around off of my chest…so thanks in advance for listening!
Wow where to begin…hmmm let’s start with the #1 source of my stress at the moment—school. I never dreamed when I enrolled at N.K.U. that I would be in over my head, I’m a pro at college after all, or so I thought. I can’t even begin to tell you how much different a big university is compared to the small community college I used to attend. The professors are harder, the courses are harder, and the grades are harder to keep on point…I am doing well, but it is definitely a struggle to keep it up! One of the classes giving me the biggest headache at the moment is my Small Group Communications class…the professor has it out for me I’m just convinced that he does…he refuses to give me a grade higher than a B and I am NOT happy about that. But I suppose that just like anything else worth having in life a college degree is not going to come easily…and I am trying to make myself understand that one B at a time!
Another area of stress in my life at the moment is my children, it seems like the more stressed out I get the more they refuse to listen. My oldest daughter’s seem to have went straight from preschoolers to teenagers, completely skipping the years where they are supposed to listen and do what they are told. Instead of listening my daughters give me 125 reasons why they shouldn’t do this or why they need to do that and it is starting to rub me the wrong way. I am notorious for NOT following through with punishment and I know that needs to change, it is yet another thing I need to work harder at in the coming months.
My youngest children seem to have minds of their own as well and those minds seem to be in complete agreement that Mommy is the enemy and she must be taken out at all costs. Between the constant running, screaming, mess making, and tantrums and the fact that they NEVER take naps but somehow manage to stay up till 1 am (or often later) is turning me into one cranky, pissed off, Zombie Mommy! I have tried every trick in the book when it comes to discipline for my youngest; the ones that worked on my oldest daughters, the ones that never worked on my oldest daughters, and the ones that everyone and their mother want to suggest when I mention my two hellions, I mean angels, and NOTHING works. Some days I feel like I am fighting a losing battle, some days I want to crawl into my bed and hide from the world, but I don’t and I will not stop my quest for world domination, I mean finding a way to discipline my unruly kiddos.
That brings us to my bliggity blog…you liked that huh. I feel like Misadventures is coming into its own (and I have all of you to think for that) but it is also becoming much harder to balance life, school, demons (I mean kiddos), and my blog equally so if you notice I never post of weekends that would be why. Hopefully I will figure it all out soon enough, or not as the case will most certainly be, but I guess I have a lifetime to work on that!
Wow where to begin…hmmm let’s start with the #1 source of my stress at the moment—school. I never dreamed when I enrolled at N.K.U. that I would be in over my head, I’m a pro at college after all, or so I thought. I can’t even begin to tell you how much different a big university is compared to the small community college I used to attend. The professors are harder, the courses are harder, and the grades are harder to keep on point…I am doing well, but it is definitely a struggle to keep it up! One of the classes giving me the biggest headache at the moment is my Small Group Communications class…the professor has it out for me I’m just convinced that he does…he refuses to give me a grade higher than a B and I am NOT happy about that. But I suppose that just like anything else worth having in life a college degree is not going to come easily…and I am trying to make myself understand that one B at a time!
Another area of stress in my life at the moment is my children, it seems like the more stressed out I get the more they refuse to listen. My oldest daughter’s seem to have went straight from preschoolers to teenagers, completely skipping the years where they are supposed to listen and do what they are told. Instead of listening my daughters give me 125 reasons why they shouldn’t do this or why they need to do that and it is starting to rub me the wrong way. I am notorious for NOT following through with punishment and I know that needs to change, it is yet another thing I need to work harder at in the coming months.
My youngest children seem to have minds of their own as well and those minds seem to be in complete agreement that Mommy is the enemy and she must be taken out at all costs. Between the constant running, screaming, mess making, and tantrums and the fact that they NEVER take naps but somehow manage to stay up till 1 am (or often later) is turning me into one cranky, pissed off, Zombie Mommy! I have tried every trick in the book when it comes to discipline for my youngest; the ones that worked on my oldest daughters, the ones that never worked on my oldest daughters, and the ones that everyone and their mother want to suggest when I mention my two hellions, I mean angels, and NOTHING works. Some days I feel like I am fighting a losing battle, some days I want to crawl into my bed and hide from the world, but I don’t and I will not stop my quest for world domination, I mean finding a way to discipline my unruly kiddos.
That brings us to my bliggity blog…you liked that huh. I feel like Misadventures is coming into its own (and I have all of you to think for that) but it is also becoming much harder to balance life, school, demons (I mean kiddos), and my blog equally so if you notice I never post of weekends that would be why. Hopefully I will figure it all out soon enough, or not as the case will most certainly be, but I guess I have a lifetime to work on that!
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
August is always a hectic month for me; it begins with a bang as Lil Man’s birthday rolls around just as the month is beginning (pictures from his party will be coming soon) and ends with both myself and my girlies going back to school! I don’t talk too much about my life as a college student, mostly because it’s just another crazy, hectic, stressful part of my life, but I have decided that talking about me being in school while raising 4 kids (5 if you count my husband) might be a good thing! 
I have been a college student for a while now at my local community college, but I decided last month to finally take the leap and enroll in an actual university! While my grades have been pretty good through college with my GPA staying consistently around a 3.4 (which is a miracle in itself) it has taken forever to finish so I am leaving my community college 3 credit hours shy of an AA degree (LONG story behind why I am not staying to complete it). It makes me feel like somewhat of a failure for not staying it out until my degree is completed, but I know that transferring is the right thing for me to do.
So this fall I will be a student at Northern Kentucky University (NKU for short) and I couldn’t be happier. I will be pursuing a Bachelors degree in Communications Studies and I will be completing my courses online (major lifesaver for this mom of 4). I am very anxious for classes to start, but also terrified that I will not be able to keep up. The past two semesters at my previous school were tough to say the least, trying to find the right balance between being able to be there for my kids like I need to and finding time to study is not easy and it proved to be quite the challenge. I can only hope that a fresh start at a new school will provide me with the kick start I need to get the ball rolling and work my way (quickly work my way) to a degree.
I hope that y’all will stick around to read about the ins and outs of trying to balance being a mommy, wife, student, and blogger! I can’t promise much—but I promise it will be entertaining!
I have been a college student for a while now at my local community college, but I decided last month to finally take the leap and enroll in an actual university! While my grades have been pretty good through college with my GPA staying consistently around a 3.4 (which is a miracle in itself) it has taken forever to finish so I am leaving my community college 3 credit hours shy of an AA degree (LONG story behind why I am not staying to complete it). It makes me feel like somewhat of a failure for not staying it out until my degree is completed, but I know that transferring is the right thing for me to do.
So this fall I will be a student at Northern Kentucky University (NKU for short) and I couldn’t be happier. I will be pursuing a Bachelors degree in Communications Studies and I will be completing my courses online (major lifesaver for this mom of 4). I am very anxious for classes to start, but also terrified that I will not be able to keep up. The past two semesters at my previous school were tough to say the least, trying to find the right balance between being able to be there for my kids like I need to and finding time to study is not easy and it proved to be quite the challenge. I can only hope that a fresh start at a new school will provide me with the kick start I need to get the ball rolling and work my way (quickly work my way) to a degree.
I hope that y’all will stick around to read about the ins and outs of trying to balance being a mommy, wife, student, and blogger! I can’t promise much—but I promise it will be entertaining!
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