Continued Education

As a child we are so excited to go to school.  We get to play with out friends, learn new things about ourselves and our friends.  Be rewarded through the fun ideas our teachers come up with to teach us new things.  Oh and we cannot forget about RECESS the best and most important part of any school day.

As we grow we enter into the daunting classrooms of middle school, junior high, and high school where we are required to read textbooks, fill out work sheets, form lengthy essays.  At times we scream, "how is this fair?" or "I'm never going to need this why do I have to it?"

Coming to the end of high school years we are faced with the challenges of what to do next.  do we go to college and get our degree right away or do we work and travel and other fun things that we want to do or even just bum around and do nothing?

It's not an easy decision.  I personally choose to go to college for about a year and a half, before deciding that I just wanted to work.  So, work I did.  I worked more than enough time for me and anyone else that I worked with.  Pulling doubles and over time even gong right from a swing to a grave and going home to sleep for about 4 hours before returning for the 11am shift.  After getting married I pulled back on my hours so I could spend more time with the love of my life.  Eventually I gave it all up to be a stay at home mom to the most wonderful little boy.

Years, and four children later I found it very important after my husband was in an accident at work (thankfully no one was hurt), to return to school and gain the education I had originally started out to gain.  I had nothing to fall back on to support my children.  I would be stuck living either in my dad's basement are at my in-laws while trying to work a minimum wage job to support myself and my four children.  Even though I have an amazing support system that would do whatever they needed to do to help me and my children I could not risk not having the time that I wanted to have with my children because my work schedule did not mess with their school schedule.

I needed something that would pay the bills and not make me stress too much about money will messing with their school schedules so that I could be there for them when I needed to be and support them in every way possible.

I have always wanted to be a teacher as I have expressed in previous posts, however it also meshes very well with me having young children. 

Continuing my education is one of the most rewarding and most challenging things I have ever done in my life.  Education has not ever really been a challenge for me, the challenge comes from trying to complete everything that I was already doing with gaining education.  Being an involved parent forces you to have to organize and schedule your time.  throwing school on top of that makes you become very scheduled and organized.  however this is a great thing for me because I have always been a scheduled person.  I not only want the structure I need it.

I have told a number of mom's, I am an advocate of higher education and if it is something that you really want you will do well and you will excel at it.  You just have to WANT it.