First week of full time student status

I am so grateful that my friends and family want to know how school is going. So I decided that I will (I will try) blog weekly about how things are going.... I started classes Jan 11 at Baldwin Wallace, My dream school I am taking 3 classes at BW and 1 at Kent...

At BW I am taking:
M W F LAS (enduring questions in a intercultural world)
M Civil Rights Movement
Th Religion and Violence

At Kent:
Tu USAF ROTC classes

My week started off with a 9:20 class, then a 12:00 orthodontist appt for Raquel, then my father and I went to Kent to meet with a Major so they could explain the program to him. My father and mother are super protective of us.. and He doesnt want me to go into the military. My father behaved himself. He still doesnt want me to do it, but at least he understands what the program is all about :)

I am enjoying classes so far... I have not started the ROTC classes... (I start those tomorrow) 3 classes, only 5 papers.. (5 papers, not so bad when I dont usually have trouble writing) I also changed my major. I am now DOUBLE MAJORING in History and Religion. I know, it will be a lot of work... but I like a challenge...

Thus, changing myself to a double major.. Bumps my grad date back to approx May 2013. The good news is... I have been stressing so much about this ROTC fitness test... I get on gear, and kick butt for a week or two,then get sick, or something comes up. After speaking with my admissions instructor... He told me that since I will be a walk on cadet this semester, that there are more cadets then beds at field training this summer, he said it is in my best interest to bump myself back. so, thats what I did... I bought myself a extra year to meet the requirements. (passing the AFOQT, Passing the PT test, and Passing a military physcial :) )

Friday morning after I took my first quiz in the LAS class, i was driving into work and thinking to myself that wow! I can handle this. There is not as much work as I thought there would be... well at 4:30 that afternoon, the bottom fell out on me. My work (the dr i work for I have known almost 8 years) told me that my services were only needed 2 days a week. I had been told a few weeks ago that changes were coming but they would affect me minimally.... I'm sorry, but 32 hours a week to barely 16 is NOT minimum... Needless to say, I am now unemployed.. At first I was really upset. I felt really betrayed.. but now I realize that this was a blessing in disguise. I trust that the Lord will take care of my kids and me.

Today was day 1 of unemployment, and the kids were home for MLK day. I spent the day cleaning my kitchen and dining room from top to bottom and taking a sick little short kid to the dr... she has strep throat... :( but she is on anti-biotics now

Thats my week in a nutshell :)