Happy but crazy

I have been thinking about life recently. I made a huge decision over the summer to return to school and head in the direction of a new career in the next few years. For the first time in 20+ years, I am the student and not the teacher. I am taking Anatomy, which I love! I love to go to class, I love to study it. I struggle to find the time for everything but my homeschooling responsibilities are less this year than in many years. My kids are supportive of this change, and so is Eddie. But it will require sacrifice on all our parts. I saw that this week. We had a huge catering job over the weekend at church, so I was very busy until Sunday, then exhausted. I had a test on Wednesday, so I spent the rest of my time either working with my own kids, studying or preparing for teaching on Tuesday. Basic dishes and cleanup is about all the house saw this week. I think I did well on the exam (nervous system), but I left and immediately felt all the weight of the world, in addition to the adrenaline still pumping through my system. I wanted to crash, but I had to teach today as well, so I came home to prep and grade papers. Finally tonight I crashed. I went to Eddie's and mostly slept on his lap while he watched the baseball game. Of course now that I am home, I am awake and watching the rest of this very exciting World Series game. I have never watched a baseball game on my own - meaning alone because I wanted to. But this is Texas - and it is exciting. SO I am weary to the bone, but once again can't really sleep. I'll start studying the next section tomorrow as we do our homeschool work, but this is going to have to be a weekend of rest.

I look back over the last few years and I have often been exhausted and overwhelmed as a single, working, homeschooling mom. But I am HAPPY! And I would take happy and overwhelmed over the alternative any day. I am blessed!