I'm a School-Girl Mom

I recently started a new journey in my life.

After almost ten years of being out, I have gone back to school. Hence, the name of this blog. Yes, at thirty-six-years-old as of this writing, I have become a School Girl once again. Only this time, I am a wife and a mother of three. I am only in my second week, and I am already thinking: What the heck have I gotten myself into?

Well, I think it's because I want to finish what I started all those years ago when I was a young fool. I want to finally earn my bachelor's degree. I am in the the Bachelor's of Science Human Services Program at the University of Phoenix Kapolei Learning Center. It's a great school and a wonderful program, but let me tell you this, and current students and alumnae will resound it, that you don't only spend once a week doing school work! Uh-uh! No freakin' way! There's like a hundred pages of readings, PLUS an individual assignment PLUS a Learning Team assignment that are all due in A WEEK!!! So sure, you spend one night a week in class for four hours, but you also spend countless hours during the week reading, preparing, and working on papers or projects. Am I complaining? No, I'd just like to call it venting.

No, really, I'm just venting because it's been so long for me. I am still pretty much getting adjusted to all of this, and so is my family. University of Phoenix is a great school, and I do plan to finish this! No matter how much hair I pull out along the way. Speaking of family, my husband and kids have been the greatest! My hubby is so supportive of all of this as he is willing to care for and entertain our four-year-old daughter. And she is the best because she now understands that "mommy has homework too". And my two tweens are very respectful of my time as well. So I'm not in this alone.

So the purpose of this blog is to record my journey, my journey as a School-Girl Mom. I just know it'll be a wonderful, crazy, stressful, rocky, stressful, intense, but most of all, rewarding one! Hopefully I will follow through with this blog all the way to GRADUATION, which is in about three years! But, hey, who's counting?