Monday, August 29, 2011
First week
Ok I survived the first week. I started school last Monday with no voice and no car. The alternator went out. But God is good. I made it. I sat in English class and it all sounded foreign to me. Then slowly it started coming back and made sense. Jeremy helped me proof read my first paper. I turn it in today. I had a panic attack this morning when I couldn't get it to print and thought my lap top had crashed. But it didn't. I just had to plug it in somewhere else. Wow. I think the hardest change has been on the kids. They are realizing I am not able to do it all for them. They did laundry yesterday. Yeah. Josh was upset a little the other day because I wasn't home when he got home. He wanted to tell me something. That makes me a little sad, but at the same time its a good thing. They need to get used to this. I have discovered I need to set boundaries. I can't just sit and watch TV. I have to utilize my time. I also have to tell the kids don't disturb me now, I'm working. All in all it will be good. I had better get busy. Monday mornings are when I should be studying. LOL
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Back to school
I am writing this on day three of being back in school. I am trying to obey what God wants in my life, and I believe He has made it possible for me to do this and start a new beginning in my life.He made the funding appear and it also helped me get caught up on my bills. My classes are a full load. I am taking English and Biology (about genetics and DNA) also Texas History and Social Work. My degree will be in Social Work (Assoc) when I finish 3 semesters. I did one semester right out of high school, so it counted.
Oh, and if you don't know me very well, I am 51 years old. I am a single mother of 2 boys. Jeremy is almost 20 and a Sophomore at UT (Physics major). Joshua is 16 a junior in high school (with his first girlfriend). I was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma cancer in Oct. 2009, had radiation and chemo, then a stem cell transplant in May 2010. I am in remission now and go back every 4 months for follow ups. I am a patient at MDAnderson in Houston. So after all of that I had to decide what to do now. I can't sit here on disability and doing nothing, and eating too much, gaining weight (possibly becoming diabetic), because I have nothing to do. Then I would be stuck with hardly anything when my kids move out. I can't and won't do that. That is just not who I am. I have to be busy to be productive. So, since I have a 20 year background in childcare and I help an elderly lady as her medical liaison, and several other reasons, I decided on Social Work. I am interested in several fields of social work. So I will pursue this and see where it leads. I really believe this is where the Lord is leading me. I am also doing a precepts bible study on Friday mornings on the book of Isaiah. Very exciting stuff.
I decided I would blog my journey and see where that will lead me. This is the only way I can actual journal. People say it is important to do this. Oh, back to my first day of school. I woke up Sunday am with no voice. Of course it carried through to the first day of school. The teacher says. "Let's go around the room and tell us something about yourself"? Ha, they could barely hear me.Oh well. It was quite something, I have to say. Then that afternoon, my car broke down. The alternator went out. Why, oh why does this happen now? I Had to take a cab Tuesday morning to my 7:30 Biology class.
Yes I said 7:30am, every Tuesday and Thursday. Wow. He said we can bring coffee in. Ok, I can do that. The Professor is very nice. He is younger and explains things very well. Then I have a Professor in English who shall I say is very mature? She looks like she's been teaching 50 years. Then I have a quite mature History teacher. He is a character. He might just make it so I do well in History for once. Last is the really nice young Social Work teacher. She looks like a very interactive teacher and it should make it quite easy to do well in her class too. If only I can write the English papers well. How did I do on this one? More later. Should have much more by the end of the week. It is only Wednesday.
Oh, and if you don't know me very well, I am 51 years old. I am a single mother of 2 boys. Jeremy is almost 20 and a Sophomore at UT (Physics major). Joshua is 16 a junior in high school (with his first girlfriend). I was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma cancer in Oct. 2009, had radiation and chemo, then a stem cell transplant in May 2010. I am in remission now and go back every 4 months for follow ups. I am a patient at MDAnderson in Houston. So after all of that I had to decide what to do now. I can't sit here on disability and doing nothing, and eating too much, gaining weight (possibly becoming diabetic), because I have nothing to do. Then I would be stuck with hardly anything when my kids move out. I can't and won't do that. That is just not who I am. I have to be busy to be productive. So, since I have a 20 year background in childcare and I help an elderly lady as her medical liaison, and several other reasons, I decided on Social Work. I am interested in several fields of social work. So I will pursue this and see where it leads. I really believe this is where the Lord is leading me. I am also doing a precepts bible study on Friday mornings on the book of Isaiah. Very exciting stuff.
I decided I would blog my journey and see where that will lead me. This is the only way I can actual journal. People say it is important to do this. Oh, back to my first day of school. I woke up Sunday am with no voice. Of course it carried through to the first day of school. The teacher says. "Let's go around the room and tell us something about yourself"? Ha, they could barely hear me.Oh well. It was quite something, I have to say. Then that afternoon, my car broke down. The alternator went out. Why, oh why does this happen now? I Had to take a cab Tuesday morning to my 7:30 Biology class.
Yes I said 7:30am, every Tuesday and Thursday. Wow. He said we can bring coffee in. Ok, I can do that. The Professor is very nice. He is younger and explains things very well. Then I have a Professor in English who shall I say is very mature? She looks like she's been teaching 50 years. Then I have a quite mature History teacher. He is a character. He might just make it so I do well in History for once. Last is the really nice young Social Work teacher. She looks like a very interactive teacher and it should make it quite easy to do well in her class too. If only I can write the English papers well. How did I do on this one? More later. Should have much more by the end of the week. It is only Wednesday.
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