this year, i'm keeping it simple:
i'm going to embrace and fully invest myself in being a kick a** wife and mom.
see i've been trying to think about what i should do with my life. i have seriously been contemplating going back to law school and putting syd in day care because they have a great facility at the school i was thinking of. then i thought....what about cooking school? masters degree? etc. etc.
i was talking to my mom about this whole conundrum, and she noticed (after asking me further questions) that i kept talking about the school. i didn't necessarily want to be a chef or a lawyer or whatever. i wanted to go back to school. but i was putting myself in a box.
i still can go to classes and continue learning as much as i want to without pursuing a graduate degree full time and putting syd into daycare (which, i might add, i just felt sick inside about doing. i wanted to be with my baby AND be a full time student. maybe while she was sleeping?).
anyway, eventually i will definitely get a graduate degree in something. possibly when my kids are doing school, but definitely at a time that i feel good about. i think i have been hesitant to embrace this new part of my life. the adult part. the part where i might be done with being a full-time student for a while, and where i have to be a full-time teacher for my kids.
also, i really want to work on my writing and possibly do some freelance editing. this is something that i love doing, and i can pursue without putting my kid into full-time daycare.
on a side note, i do NOT look down on moms who put their kids in day care. that is their decision and every family is completely different. i am so glad women have the option to do whatever they want now. i <3 women's rights. i just feel like for now, what our family needs is someone at home full time. because kirk is med school and has a crazy schedule, someone needs to see syd more than an hour a day. :p
happy new year everyone!
4 comments:
Amen sista!!
great goal! i'm feeling the same way, though i've gotten over the whole more school thing, b/c i don't think it's right for me, but i do want to keep learning and i think that's totally possible if i'm proactive about it. wow was that a long sentence or what?
That's an awesome resolution! I keep thinking I'd like to go back to school some time too, but for me it's also still pretty abstract. Really, I still feel like I just left school!
i have never had the desire for more school...i have nightmare's about tests to this day. i'm with learning...be proactive about learning SOMETHIGN, you don't have to go to school for it.
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