Tomorrow is the day!

Tomorrow it the day! My first day of nursing school. Up until now I have been extremely excited and confident about starting the program. Now that I’m a day away and not months, I’m starting to get really nervous. What if I can’t manage? What is it going to be like? Am I going to go crazy trying to manage school, house and kids? I have been in a cleaning frenzy. I have organized the basement, closets, toys, pantry etc... I feel I have to have everything up to scratch or I will get overwhelmed. It’s kind of like preparing for a storm. I don’t know what is going to hit me. I sure hope I’m overreacting.

I have already picked my schedule. We had blocks of ready made schedules to pick from. The one I chose gives me the Mondays off. Tuesday is lab all day, Wednesday is placements all day and Thursday and Friday is classes. I like the idea of having the one day a week off. My schedule will require a little shifting of my husbands work hours as some of the days I start at 8:30 and the younger kids don’t take the school bus until 8:45. This means he will get to work late and will get back home late in the evening. So after a whole day at school (and probably homework and assignments) I will have to cook dinner, do all the driving around and help the kids with homework. Then I’ll have to study and manage a shower just to start all over the next day.

So with that in mind and the wondering of what to expect I doubt I’ll get any sleep tonight. That on top of waking up everyday after 10 AM I know I will be half dead as I come home tomorrow. But I still can’t wait.