College Life can interfere at times...

It's been a little bit since I posted as I have two huge assignments due in a couple weeks so most of my free time has been going to research and rough drafts and power point assignments. Although I do try to take off from school on the weekends, as much as I can because I like that to be family time.

Two weeks ago we enjoyed some time at the zoo with the boys.

That same weekend we took the boys to go see Happy Feet 2 in the little theater in our town.

This past weekend we didn't do much as a friend of the family passed away and we went down to visit with his family in this hard time. So we have been dealing with that as the guy that passed away was like a brother to my husband. 

We had one really cold day so the boys enjoyed pulling out their snow jackets!

But that pretty much is our life right now. 

I plan to post a new recipe on Friday! 

My life as a College Mom.

I decided a few months ago that I needed to do something for myself as I had let some of the important goals I had for myself slide to the back burner. My boys are at the age where they are starting school and I have a little more free time than when they were babies and needed all of my attention every minute of the day. I can now entertain them with coloring or send them to their rooms and they can play independently. So I decided it was time to start school and achieve my goal of getting a college degree. I looked around and realized online school was going to work best for me and my family. Then it was time to research what school I wanted to attend. I then enrolled in the University of Phoenix. 

I started school in October and my world has forever changed.

My schedule consists of:

• Waking up and getting the boys ready for the day
• Breakfast
• My husband takes Austin to school
• Then I start my school day. (Look over syllabus, read chapters, and start assignments) Hubby plays with Dylan so I can get what I need to done.
• Austin gets home from school
• Lunch
• Hubby goes to bed for the day
• Boys go down for naps for 2 hours (Austin just has quiet time) I do my discussion questions and finish the assignments I need to do.
• Boys wake up and we play and do fun activities.
• Pick the house up and figure out what's for dinner
• Dinner
• Bath time for the boys
• Bedtime for the boys
• Do anything else I need to in the house and spend time with hubby
• Hubby goes to work and I look over school stuff to see if there is anything I need to do to finish my day. And now I fit in some blogging.
• Then bedtime for me.

How quite a bit of my day is spent.

I love my new routine and lifestyle. School is such an important time for me and I love that I get that little bit of alone time to concentrate on something for myself. It may sound selfish but I think every mom should enjoy doing something they want to do or have a goal set for. If we can't be ourselves then we aren't able to give 100% to our families.

Are you a college mom? What changes have you had to make to accompany college into your lifestyle?