New Direction and Design

This blog has been about homeschooling for several years and now that both of my children are entering into public school I have decided to take this blog in another direction. 

It will be about the everyday life of a mom. Me. 

I will be crafting, organizing, making printables, cleaning, and sharing my daily life. You will get to see a new side of me, other than just a teacher. 

That being said I am going to keep everything that is already on this blog the same but things may move around a bit.

The design will be changing starting today and I will be playing with it here and there. 

I hope you will all stick around and enjoy the new way this blog is going. It is going to be a fun ride!

Scheduling a Vacation

My family has never really been on a planned family vacation. So Austin has spring break in March and it looks like we will be heading to sunny Florida! My mom and grandma live there so we will stay with them.

We will be visiting our church down there and also be heading to St. Augustine!

I have been to St. Augustine several times but my husband and kids have not. 

Some of the places we will be seeing while there are

The Fort

Marineland

The Old Jail

and of course the Beach!

We also plan to visit the Lighthouse and anything else we can fit into the few days that we are there!

So among school and other things going on in our lives, I am planning an awesome vacation for our family!

Now to actually do the planning for all the packing and that type of thing. 

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! 

A Place for Moms

I have always been in to having a place as a mom to chat with other moms about anything and not feeling uncomfortable about it. Well places for moms that have no drama are few and far between. So, a friend and I have started a place where moms can come together and getaway to post about anything they'd like. I would like to invite my readers to join if you are looking for a fun place to chat with other moms.

If you are looking for, or interested, come join us and give it a try at A Mom's Getaway!

We would love to have ya'll!

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?