Once again I have waited far to long to update on here...shame on me! All my daycare babies are sleeping and here I am left with nothing to do but either start 50 shades of grey(which Im so excited about)..or write a blog. I went with writing a blog because it has been forever and so much has happened...including a huge...recent decision.
As most of you know for the last year and half I have been pursuing a nursing degree! What a lot of you may not know is before that I was in school for child development..hoping to be a preschool teacher. I changed my major when I realized that anyone even with out a degree could do that..So I thought it was a waste of time and money. I started researching my options..and being obsessed with labor, delivery and pregnant women and babies..I thought an OB nurse was my perfect fit.
So all I needed to do was get my degree...
I was sitting in my microbiology class on this past Monday night and a girl in the class was talking about how she was starting the program in August..and how she is dreading it because of the amount of time she would be away from her kids. I thought to myself....it is gonna suck. Just like sitting in this class on a summer night instead of sitting on my deck with my husband watching my kids play sucks. But it doesn't end there....because the amount of time and effort this ONE class required was making it to where every night consisted of me sitting in my bed room...isolated. Science is a subject that I have always had to work hard in...It will never just come to me. Now saying that..please don't think that Im not willing to work hard for my degree because I certainly will. But I have decided to take a route that comes a little more naturally to me..Teaching.
Im sure your thinking...there she goes changing her major again...will she ever finish school?...Believe me I feel like I have been in school forever. My life with my kids is so important to me though.....-I could spend all the time in the world earning a degree..and then after that using the degree to make a decent amount of money...however the time spent making all that money..can never buy back the time that I missed out on with my kids. The perks of teaching...summers off and holidays...and weekends off, is the deciding factor for me. Not the decrease on the pay scale...or the fact that jobs are hard to come by..I figured..Brad and I are doing just fine now and I don't even have a degree..So I see no reason for the amount of money I make to be the deciding factor.
I am SOOOO excited to meet with my new adviser at SIUE...and to get the show on the road. I'm excited to be a teacher...to teach kids, to decorate my room all cute, and even to grade papers and dress cute!, I'm excited for all of it!!
So that's where we are at currently...I'll keep every one tuned in as I begin this new journey in my life!
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