For a while there I was feeling pretty good...

*** Wrote this a while ago... obviously I intended to come back, proofread and post..... obviously I was right on the money 3 weeks ago when I said a LOT of things were going to get forgotten.  So-  This was how my first week of college as a 40 yr old mother of 5, wife of 1, went!
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The first 2 days of being a college student were VERY stressful for me.  Monday was a busy day with some guests who had come for dessert and a house to clean and then finally when everyone had left and dessert cleaned up ; kids were in bed, I attempted to begin my foray into being a college student. I ended up sitting at the computer til 2am FREAKING out over my online classes.  There seemed to be so much to decipher and it just seemed so overwhelming.

The advice I had gotten at orientation, to wait til the first week of classes to buy my books- because sometimes professors change their mind or let you know another cheaper edition is okay or yada, yada, yada...-  seemed to have gotten me in a bind.  My psychology class had 4 assignments due this Saturday and I coudn't get a rental book which was what I was hoping for here until Friday, Maybe Saturday.  I was so mad and upset.  Even buying a used book was double the price a rented book would be....

I finally decided, after trying to check all my options, to buy a used book off Amazon with free 2 day shipping for signing up for their special "student club".  Of course nothing was easy for me that night and I was crying and feeling like this was the stupidest idea I'd ever come up with... this going back to school.. .and there was NO WAY I could handle it.  Then I would pray and calm down and then something else would go wrong or feel impossible and I'd start all over again... I finally made some decisions, did what I could and went to bed.

Tuesday, I was exhausted, of course, from staying up til the wee hours.  I was fasting all day for a friend who needed my support and had my first on campus class.  I went to buy my math book at the bookstore in the hour between getting off work and going to class and stood in an impossibly long line til I finally gave up and put it back on the shelf and hoofed it to class which is, of course, in a building quite a ways away from the main part of campus.  I had to go BACK to the bookstore after class to buy my ridiculously expensive math book.  I was stressed and tired and snapped at Mark for something trivial and threw myself on my bed at 8pm in full clothes, makeup & jewelry.  I ended up sleeping til 11 pm, at which time I found my sweet husband had made sure the children cleaned up dinner and were in bed.  I got up and spent 90 minutes on the computer signing on to my math class now that I had my book and special code.

Today I came home and did my first psychology assignment.  I made banana bread.  I went shopping.  I picked tomatoes and green beans from the garden.  I cleaned out the bottom 1/3 of my fridge which had been so disgusting from spills and such that I was mortified to think of anyone opening my fridge.  I did some laundry.  I took care of some produce, washing, trimming and bagging so it was ready for lunches, future meals, etc. I helped Mason with his homework.  I helped Mason pass off a requirement in his cub scout book about cooking part of his own dinner.

I was feeling pretty good about my day.  I was feeling pretty accomplished and together-

Until....

I realized I had forgotten to take Samantha to Soccer practice....

oops.

I had forgotten to take the 2 youngest over to the school to sign them up for afterschool 4H clubs.....

Oops.

I have a feeling lots of things might get forgotten in the next few months....