New beginning....

Soon, this will be me. I will be reading books I don't really have any interest in and I will be hauling them everywhere with me so I can dive into them when I have a few minutes. I am going back to school!! I am a little nervous (I can't even do Caleb's 5th grade math - how am I going to get through college math??), but mostly I am quite excited. I have felt for a while that I need to finish college, just so I don't feel like the only one to never have finished. My hang up - other than Jared has been in school for FOREVER!! and we can't have both of us in school at the same time and try to raise a family and have Jared work full time and part time and do everything else... So, I have always said that I would go back when and if he ever finishes. Well, sadly Jared didn't get to finish his PhD. We had many long talks about what to do about it. He was paying a lot of money to ASU and not getting anything accomplished. There are MANY factors to why and I won't bore you all with the details - needless to say that most of the problems were not his fault, but finally we decided that we just couldn't do it anymore. We couldn't afford it financially, mentally, physically or emotionally. I feel bad that he was not able to accomplish his dream of getting a PhD. I do hope that someday he will be able to go back and get one and that it will be a better experience for all of us!

Anyway, now that I have totally gone off the subject... my second hang up is that for the longest time I had NO IDEA what I wanted to go back to school for. I was discouraged for a long time thinking there was nothing I wanted to do bad enough to actually go to school for it and then to spend any time on it when I finished.

Now, that Jared is not in school, I have been thinking of school a lot more and finally got on the MCC website and started looking around. I looked up several different areas of study and finally found one I thought I would really enjoy. For anyone that knows me, it is not a surprise for me to say that I love to organize, decorate and re-decorate my house. I don't know if I would say that I am great at it - but I love doing it. It makes me happy to create something pretty, something happy and inviting. I love to steal other peoples creative ideas and make them my own. So, I decided that I would go back to school and get a degree in....

Interior Design!!

I am really excited about this. I think it will be really fun to learn about the fashions from the past and how to better put colors together, fabrics and everything else together. I am NOT excited about the prospect of having to do all the general ed classes again. I am hoping that my credits transfer for WAY back when and that I don't have to do many - if any - of the dumb, boring classes that will not make a difference.

I wish I was starting classes this semester. But I am not. I have lots to do before I can start - mainly apply for scholarships. Jared tells me that there are a lot of scholarships out there for moms going back to school, and I intend on claiming my fair share. So, I have that, I have to get my transcripts from UVCC (which became UVSC and is now UVU) and have them mailed to MCC and I have to of course register for school.

I have never been one that has loved (or even really liked) school... but I am very excited to do this! I will have to check back with you all after I get started and we will see if I am still excited about it after taking several classes!

I will have to say that after being on campus last week (waiting over 3 hours to meet with an advisor), I certainly feel old. The college kids look so young. Oh well, here goes nothing!! :)