Second day of school completed LOL

I…. don’t know what I was thinking signing up for five classes. Ok, I do. One of my classes is to help me place out of elementary algebra- so it’s not actually a “class” but a remediation. Then I have a college success class for being placed on academic warning. That doesn’t really count towards anything either. But even though they don’t count per se, they still come with a full load of work. The other three classes are general education requirements. With the exception of math, I actually thoroughly enjoy the topics in every other class. The only problem is, a couple of them come with a major workload. We were given an assignment the first day of Humanities, which is due on Thursday. I got my first dose of trying to write a paper with three needy kids screaming at me for things. As soon as I got home, I had enough time to review my assignments and organize my material, then Kevin had to go to work. The rest was taking care of the kids, cleaning, cooking and writing a paper- at the same time. Very challenging. VERY, very challenging. My eyes are bloodshot even though I have had a decent amount of sleep. My entire body aches and I want nothing more than to crash right here, right now. But unfortunately, my day is not yet over. I have to check for errors in my paper and get it in it’s final format, the kids are still sneaking out of bed, I have to straighten up the house (again) get my things ready for tomorrow, bathe and THEN I can go to bed…..and do it again tomorrow….and the next day. I can already see that most of my free time will be spent keeping up with my school work. I can’t afford C’s, I REALLY have to bring up my GPA. I need A’s, really.

Yes, it’s stressful and it’s only the second day. But I keep telling myself- just get through this week….just this week. And I will do it again next week, for 16 weeks.