Making A Come Back

Hello Bloggity-Blog.................
I have had you on my mind.
I even considered writing.
Yet I have been a wee bit lazy since the semester ended.
I promise to stop by and update you on school's end and summer's beginning.

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I totally do not feel like studying! I only feel like being with my family, cleaning my house, doing nothing and not studying.

But I know I need to pull through the next 5 days to get the grades I want. I am not in danger of failing but its a close B in foundations. A definite B in assessment with a very possible A (that will take effort). And promotions up in the air. And a more than likely B in promotions (some grades still pending).

Yet my family needs me. My house is in disarray. My kids are moody, bored and missing their mom. Mr. Potts is in need of a break, big time.

blech! Makes me want to risk a C in foundations. I need a 72 on the final. I can settle for a B in assessment. And I really think promotions will be a B.

But I do not want to risk regretting it later. I want my GPA over a 3.0. If I get a C an A would help balance it out.

SIGHHHHH!

I would like to say a night of rest will help but it hasn't.
I think I just need to suck it up and do my school work. Its only 5 more days and then I am free to be with the kids the rest of the summer.

Honestly, I do not even want to send then the last 3 weeks of school. But they love school for the most part.

I may just keep them home a few times on separate occasions for some one on one time.

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It has been awhile!
I never dropped in after Spring Break.
I was so in need of a break. Prior to the break I thought I was on the ball and handling nursing school very well. But as soon as I relaxed I realized I was super stressed out and spread too thin. Luckily, the week before the break was the worse and it has not gotten that bad since then.

I have been unhappy though. It is hard for me to be away from my family and incapable of contributing more to my household in a hands on way. I have tried to take comfort in the fact that I am making a huge difference in my families life by completing college. Not only will I pull us out of poverty but my kids will be more likely to complete college themselves.

But it still hurts having to step back and focus here when my heart would love to be focusing there.
I cannot wait for the next couple weeks to pass so I can be with my family most of the time.
Till then I hope I can muster up the concentration needed to end the semester successfully.

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“I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness…”

(dalai lama)

When we wish and seek to help others, our attitude is more positive and relationships become easier. We are less afraid and have less anxiety. Otherwise we remain shy and hesitant, and feel the need to take a thousand precautions before we approach people. When our intentions are good, we have greater self-confidence and are stronger. This is how we learn to understand how precious and valuable kindness is. {dalai lama}

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Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
♥ Mother Teresa

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midterm evaluation

Faculty Summary: You are a pleasure to have in class because you are so enthusiastically engaged with your learning that information bubbles over and guides other students. In this, your leadership skills are very obvious. You have internalized a locus of control that has a raging hunger for accurate information. Your energy to feed this hunger is impressive. This love of knowledge coupled with your unusually high capacity for compassion and maternal maturity is going to make you a great nurse.

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five minutes now...

the kiddos are outside looking for bugs with mr.potts. I hear a no fair and a stomping up the stairs.....it seems they simmered down. Yeah!!! Dad!!! followed by laughter..... I am so glad its Spring Break........ still a lot of studying but some time to unwind.........i have been loving this z-trip mix this week. I am about to throw it on while Molly and I cook Spring Lamb Stew........the kids went to a kite festival with mr. potts while I worked today. He said their pirate kite was the highest in the sky for awhile...... everyone was happy......... time gets switched back tonight so we are losing an hour..... it should be easier to handle while we are on break.........here comes a Molly... wanting to go to the park.....mom says, " but its time for dinner, are you done collecting bugs"....."we only found 2 or 3 or 4 bugs it was boring"

time to go......

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