So Time Went On...

Being a new mommy was quite an experience for me. It had its moments when I would think "if I just had held that quarter with my knees a little longer..." or think "yeah this baby was sent to kill me" But there were also those moments that made up for it all. I can honestly say that nothing compared to being a mom. My baby girl was my pride and joy; I wanted so badly to make sure I could give her everything she wanted, needed and even didn't want or need!

 Although I loved being at home with my now massive, bundle of joy I knew I needed to return to work. I quickly landed a job at an imaging clinic in which I worked 4 ten hour days, Monday through Thursday. This was great because it allowed me to have a 3 day weekend every week! As an added bonus, my boyfriend's granny (whom I adore) was our babysitter, I felt so blessed I couldn't asked for anything more! My job was going great, I loved the experience I was obtaining and wanted to further my knowledge and experience. So I decided I should return to school.

 A brief back story! When I first met my daughter's father I had just taken a "break" from school, I was pursuing my degree in pharmacy and was a few credits short from completing my pre-requisites before I could apply and enter the pharmacy program. It had become difficult to make ends meet as a college student at age 21 and having a full load of bills (rent, utilities, insurance, groceries, shoes, makeup, weekend outfits, piercings, etc.) I decided to switch my schedule to evening courses when an opportunity to work for an engineering firm as a project manager assistant presented itself. I tried to stay motivated taking the evening courses, but I quickly lost steam and decided that college was not right for me at this time. So my “break” turned into a long term sabbatical!

 I knew it would be difficult to return to school with a full time job and an infant, but I knew that a degree was needed in order to secure a stable financial future for my daughter. I researched and brainstormed about different ways in which this could work. Around the same time I was introduced to online learning and after much skepticism, prayer and debate I decided to go for it! It turned out to be one of the best decisions I had made in quite some time... a couple of hours to be exact! I was able to set my own school schedule, still work full time and have my daughter at home with me while pursuing my degree! Easy right? Uh no!

Aside from the fact that female Hitler was my boss, my daughter seemed to be changing daily and I was missing out on so many of her firsts. I just knew that her first word was going to be "granny" or "Hitler" (yeah, I complained about my boss a lot). In addition, getting acquainted with an online learning environment was a task within itself. Blackboard? Initial discussion posts? Reply to posts? Day 3? Day 7? Written assignments? Yeah being an online student may be flexible but the workload seemed to be double that of a face to face student and you had to learn a new language, I coined it "what the h*ll". As time went on, I got the hang of things and became the queen of juggling schedules and submitting last minute assignments!

My boyfriend was supportive of my new endeavors (but not enough to wash a dish, a sock or boil water); yeah that's another post for another day. I also found that my new recently acquired language could easily be utilized in other aspects of my life. For example, I spoke "what the h*ll" when it came to a messy house, female Hitler, a clever mother-in-law, and even an overdrawn bank account!

But in all, female Hitler was just about the only factor in my life that I wish I could change. But like with any job or thing in life you have to take the good with the bad. And let's just say I must have been greedy because I was taking a lot of bad!