As a planer, I can't help but to spend endless hours trying
to figure out the best way to prepare for the Midwifery program I'm starting
int the fall. There are two areas that need to be considered. The first one is
how to best prepare academically and second how to best prepare my family.
For the academic part I was fortunate enough to meet some
very helpful midwifery students through a Facebook group called McMaster
Midwifery students. They were kind to share with me the syllabus of most of the
courses I will need to take in first semester. This will allow me to become
familiar with what is going to be expected from me and hopefully the first week
of classes won't be such a chock. I remember my first week of practical nursing
chaos. Feeling total overwhelm and crying in the bathroom between classes
questioning my ability to do it. Becoming familiar with all the different
courses expectations and curriculum will be very reassuring. It will be of
great advantage to have time to look at the course outlines in a calm manner
and have time to be familiar with the curriculum without the anxiety of first
week. I also plan to get a kick start with Anatomy & Physiology by watching
online lectures, youtube videos and reading the A&P book I already have
from the nursing program. It's my plan to start making notes and organize
resource so that when I start the course it will be less time consuming to find
the information I need.
On the family front it is not so clear what I should do to
prepare. I do have a few things in mind though. As the panner and control freak
I am, of course I had to make a list. At the moment it looks like this:
• Clear and clean
garage of clutter. Buy shelves and storage bins for kids helmets, balls,
rollerblades....
• Get rid of junk.
• Sort out through
the kids toys and give away anything that has not been played in the last year
and won't be used by other kids.
• Organize the kids
clothes' closets and set up a system of boxes to easily switch between summer
and winter wardrobes.
• Get rid of junk.
• Organize basement.
• Make menu cards for
16 weeks, including list of ingredients necessary for all dishes.
• Buy another freezer
and cook as many meals it will fit.
• Get rid of junk.
• Make a list of kids
lunch ideas.
• Fix all little DIY
things that need to be done in the house, which usually get to my nerves but
never get done.
• Organize plan B and
C for childcare when they are sick or other inconveniences.
• Get rid of junk.
• Implement a chores'
list for the kids to help around the house. (I'm not very good at this and
usually the kids get way with not much done. THIS WILL HAVE TO CHANGE!!)
• Organize as many
carpooling as possible for the kids extra curriculum activities.
• Buy as many WagJag
coupons as possible for Made-It-Clean. I plan to have someone come once a week
and help with the heavier cleaning such as bathrooms.
• Did I say get rid
of junk??
I have 12 weeks to accomplish all that. I
will also be going away twice this summer, to Virginia Beach to attend my
girl's finals dance competition and to New York with my husband to celebrate a
late 20th year anniversary (It was actually in 2010 or should I be celebrating
an early 25th anniversary?), but we were only able to get away now. We will
also be hosting friends from Holland who will be staying with us for a week and
ohhh, how could I have forgotten that, two weeks camping. So, if I don't get
started soon I might actually not have enough time to accomplish my list. Three
months seems like a long time but I know it will fly by.
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