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ok i am going to school 5 days a week. I have to get up by atleast 5 to drive an hour away to school and get home around 3:30. My kids get home about 3:45 and have to get then to their activites at 4 mon thru friday. They are in tumbbling swimming, girl scouts, and boy scouts. Then we have to come home and do our chores and their homework, cook super, and get the kids to bed. With I must add not much help from my husband. Then after thye go to bed I have to do my own homework. Then on the weekends I work 6-2 and come home to a messy house, and a house full of kids. WE already have 4 so if they have a freind over it makes 8. Im in nursing school and just bearly past the last semester. ↓
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| Name: lucie | Date: Jan 17th, 2007 11:26 AM |
gosh that sounds tough!
any chance you can drop the weekend 6-2 job? ↑ |
| Name: BR910102 | Date: Jan 18th, 2007 5:16 AM |
| I'm wore out reading that. I wish you luck keeping up and your husband needs to pamper you every free chance you get. If your children want friends over they need to keep it clean, good luck getting your husband to help!!!! ↑ |
| Name: lynnca | Date: Jan 19th, 2007 10:33 AM |
| keep the faith .and it will get better. try to stay foucs on school so that you don't have to do it over. i also have 4 kids and work 2jobs. i do online classes right now i no it gets very hard at times good luck in school. read under working moms (moms that do it all) its kinda sad 4 kids 2. good luck again ↑ |
| Name: Lizzi | Date: Jan 19th, 2007 5:05 PM |
| Pat yourself on the back,you're doing GREAT!!!!! Hang in there and be glad you are doing it because alot of people couldn't do what you do! When you start to feel like it's too much just stop and take a look around and remind yourself as to WHY you're doing it all,this should put things back into perspective and give you the will you need to carry on! I wish you lots of good luck and many great days for you and your family! : ) ↑ |
| Name: girli_bird | Date: Jan 31st, 2007 6:31 PM |
| I can not drop the work money is tight tight tight right now, i only wish that I could it would make things so much easier. But I already have panic attacks at night wondering how we are going to pay for things, which means I don't get the sleep I need. But thanks for the support ↑ |
| Name: koz | Date: Feb 1st, 2007 3:43 AM |
| wow...i give you a lot of credit...i went to nursing school right out of high school...didn't have kids at the time and i know how hard it was! I can tell you now i would have never passed nursing school if i had kids!! Who cares if you barely passed, you did! I made it by the skin of my teeth sometimes too!! just curious what semester are you in? My first was the hardest and then it did kind of get easier! Hang in there your doing great! I've been a nurse now 10 yrs and cringe when i think of nursing school!! HANG IN THERE ↑ |
| Name: girli_bird | Date: Feb 2nd, 2007 12:37 PM |
| i am in 2nd sem now and I am just hoping that it is a little easier, I am thinking that I migjt know a little more of what to exspect and how to study. I wan't to go right into my RN year, but I'm not to sure that I will do that, i might work as an LPN for awhile and then go back. ↑ |
| Name: SAHM2 | Date: Feb 11th, 2007 7:36 PM |
| stay home with your kids, they need you,selfish. ↑ |
| Name: mom22boys | Date: Feb 12th, 2007 11:38 PM |
| Girli, wow! what a busy schedule! Bless you for becoming a nurse. It is a very hard job but very rewarding. sahm2 count your blessing you can stay home with your children,not all of us can!also not all of us have husbands that help.what are you doing in the working moms forum of you are not going to support us,? we are all moms. I have a disabled baby at home and am dealing with helath issues including cancer,and I would love to be able to stay happily at home if I could!!!!!!1 ↑ |
| Name: girli_bird | Date: Feb 13th, 2007 1:53 AM |
| SAHM2 MY KIDS ARE IN SCHOOL NOW, PLUS I AM GOING TO SCHOOL NOW SO I DON'T HAVE TO WORK SO MUCH IN THE FUTURE. SO YOUC AN SAY WHAT YOU WANT BUT I KNOW THAT I AM THE FURTHEST FROM SELFISH AS I COULD GET ↑ |
| Name: marija | Date: Feb 13th, 2007 8:19 AM |
can your husband take any of the kids to some or all of their activities...while you cook?...can he cook?...why cant he clean?
your kids are at school...then on weekends they can clean...my kids all have jobs daily and on the weekends all the other stuff that needs to be done ...get done by everyone.
Also my kids have friends over once a month, thats it...they can also only visit their friends once a month...sleepovers dont happen with the younger ones yet (dreading that time) but the older ones alternate with their friend fortnightly.
good luck..be proud!!! what you are doing is fantastic and will pay off in the long run :-)))))
P.S....kick hubby in the arse!!!! ↑ |
| Name: girli_bird | Date: Feb 14th, 2007 4:49 AM |
| my kids do help clean ( well most of the time) but they need some one to keep on them, so it's not like I can study whild they clean. They usualy clean while I cook so I can keep them working. The kids and I get home around 7 and them my husband leaves to go to the gym and gets home shortly before the kids go to sleep if not after. He isn't home from work when the kids go to their activites so I have to take them. As for cleaning, he does somtimes on the weekends but he says that he is putting me through school so I should have to do most of it. I told him that since I go to school full time and work part time that we are on the same ground and should have to do the same amount of house work. ↑ |
| Name: marija | Date: Feb 14th, 2007 1:13 PM |
He's putting you through school!!!!....hell thats harsh.
sooooo when you are qualified and he decides that it "our" money being bought in by you....you can turn around and say....noooo that was spent in raising "our" kids...dont believe me....HERES MY BILL :-))))....it will outweigh the cost of your schooling...LOL ↑ |
| Name: girli_bird | Date: Feb 14th, 2007 5:47 PM |
| yeah no doubt thats true, i just don't think he belives how much work is going into the kids and school.Maybe I should start a running tab. ↑ |
| Name: bex27 | Date: Feb 15th, 2007 9:04 AM |
| Gee girlibird - it sounds like u got a lot on your hands!! My thought is maybe u could talk to your kids about all their afterschool activities - you could do a compromise with them - I'm sure they dont like to see you run off ur feet!!!! I know it is sooo hard to be studying nursing and keeping the family happy - my friend has just been thru this - although she had a 5 year old was studying nursing, got pregnant in her last year - worked the whole way through and finally graduated last year. You seem to be making all the sacrifices in your family - when is your time out. Maybe you could ask your kids to give up all of their afterschool activites so that no one feels disadvantaged - just while ur studying - maybe u could find an activity they could all go to at the same time - like a martial art or whatever. It sounds like ur husband also needs to start making some sacrifices too - even if he only went to gym twice a week or something - or took the kids out for a bike ride or something instead. I know ur just having a vent but just look after urself too -- ur nogood to any one f you burn urself out!! Just look after no 1 - ur worth it and if it comes down to it - tell ur husband ur going away for the weekend or something and just pamper urself ↑ |
| Name: lizset | Date: Feb 21st, 2007 11:41 PM |
| girli-bird You are doing great hang in there! Have you tried to apply for a scholarship? there are so many nursing scholarships due to the shortage of nurses try this option or what i did was get a student loan and once you graduate a hospital that hires you will pay off the loan if you for instance agree to work with them for 2 years... that way you dont have to worry about the tuition and it may help destress the financial situation.. As far as the cooking i cooked and froze food so that all i had to do was defrost heat it up and serve it saves alot especially on the days you have to study for exams... I would also try talking to the kids about mommy being in school and cut off the play dates for abit.. hey its only afew years and youll get something great out of this... dont forget to dance silly with the kids occasionally you could use the laughter!!! its the best medicine ↑ |
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