Its been a few..

Since the last time I posted to this site Michaela's strange lumps have cleared up with the help of her medicine and she is her normal sassy self, doing gymnastics, bugging her siblings, and just being 4.

I started my first quarter at the university a few weeks ago and boy has it been an adjustment. It funny when I told people I was getting ready to start and that I have three kids, a dog, and of course my handsome and very supportive husband several times I got "good luck with that!" with their eyebrows to the sky! I was honestly kind of flabbergasted that someone would be so negative about my starting school but hey to each their own. So, we are in our third week of the quarter and I finally feel like I've gotten my feet underneath me and its about darn time too! I'm not sure why the transition to a four year university was such an adjustment but it was and I think a lot of it had to do with mentally adjusting to the fact that after years of dreaming I've finally made it to this level. Perhaps more importantly I have put a lot of pressure on myself to do well and have taken on financial commitments based on my future earning potential that freaks me out and in researching my masters program for when I'm done with the two years I have left at Eastern I found out that they only accept 25-35 students out of a pool of about 50 applications so I need to have a REALLY good GPA and be as well rounded as possible considering I have some serious time constraints due to my many commitments in order to have the best chance to get in. At the same time I'm planning the classes that I'll take this summer and fall so I can register later this month and it looks like there is a good chance that next summer I won't have any classes available to take and will most likely be getting a job and that brings with it the issue of childcare. I just keep trying to remind me "one piece of the puzzle at a time" and pretty soon the puzzle will be done.