College is not for sissies!

I took a big step of faith this fall and started back to school. I have decided to study nursing, and get my RN degree, but I have to get through some pre-requisites first. My first college degree was in Small Business Management, and I graduated with that in 1992, so you can imagine that nothing from that time in college transferred over!

This quarter I started out with Psych 100, Biology 160, and English 101. I soon realized that my superwoman cape was just not fitting right - trying to juggle 15 credits with three kids and a husband and a home and then trying to study and do homework for all three classes - yikes! I was not being very successful. So I decided to withdraw from English and just concentrate on Psych and Biology. It was a good choice, but I still feel every bit of my 43 years when it comes to learning all of this new stuff! I am finding that my 2 brain surgeries did affect a bit of my memory capability - trying to ingrain all this new stuff is hard!

But now I am only a couple of weeks away from the first quarter being over, and I'm still surviving! I have found that I can learn new things, it just takes me a bit longer. I have found some new friends in my classmates - and its been fun getting to know new people. I have found that God really does have a plan laid out for me, and just the fact that I am enrolled in school is a big testimony to what God can do. It's kind of an awesome story as to how I even got to this place, but I'll tell that one another time.

I am glad I took this step, and followed the quiet voice of God speaking into my ear. The next few years are not going to be easy, but I know they will be rewarding. And my family has been such a huge encouragement along the way, even though we have hit a few rocks in the path.

Now, if I can only keep meiosis and mitosis straight, and remember DNA replication, and gene expressions, and, and, and........