It was really hard having a 2 and 3 year old and attending school full time. I had to work really hard on spending "QUALITY" time with the boys. There is a big difference between quality and quantity. I think that was the hardest adjustment for me. I was a stay at home mom who did not have to work outside of the home. I was very blessed to be able to stay home, but after the divorce I needed to do something, so I went back to school.

I tried to make sure that every evening until bed time was the boys special time. We would play games, read, make supper, do chores together. Once they were in bed, was my time to do homework. There were plenty of times that I fell asleep in my books, but it was important that I spend quality time with the boys. I also tried to to get as much homework done at school as possible. The weekends were fun times with the kids.

I do need to talk about daycare. I went through several daycares that did not take care of my children the way I thought they should. I had one day care that never changed Ethan's diapers. I even marked them and they still did not change them. So it was really hard for me because I did not feel good about leaving the kids with strangers.

Another thing that was hard was being an older student. I was very serious and intent on my studies, but it was hard for me to get members of group project motivated because they were young and school was not as important to them as to me. I also had a lot of life lessons, so some of the basic classes were quite easy.

I did not get the chance to be involved in a lot of extracurricular activities because of the kids, and that was difficult I felt left out a lot and missed some really good activities.

Towards the end of school I had a lot of computer home work, and the kids got use to me and homework. They would try to be really good until I was able to complete my work. Even now they talk about Mom and her home work, falling asleep in my books.

Getting that education was good, but it did put stress on the family.