Need help with schedule

[Cdrowdy]

need real help here!!

i am the mother of 4 children and a stay at home mom at this time.

my childrens agese are

boy 14

girl 12

girl 5

boy 2

i need some help form some of you that have created real working study schedules.

i am very active in my childrens schools and my 5 year old will start school this year. i am going back to school starting this summer. i will take 2 math classes. then in the fall i will take algebra i and my english comp class. then the spring i will take last algebra class and my human growth and developement class. i am trying to keep my school schedule down to 2 to 3 nights a week. i was just wondering how everyone worked studing in around their families. my hubby is 100% behind me because this has been my dream for the last 26 years. i have wanted to be a nurse since i was 10 years old. we have no outside help so my support system is my young family. if anyone has any advice please give it i am open to any help i can get.

how do you all balance family and school?

[amblessing]

All I can say is don't OVERDO it! I have been attending college for the past year and I start nursing classes in August. I have enlisted the help of my husband and I am fortunate that he is not a picky man . He's doesn't care that he gets microwave meals and doesn't mind some clutter around the house. In fact, if the clutter begins to annoy him - he'll clean it up himself! My kids are 13 and 11 and they are going to learn how to cook a meal and do a load of laundry before the summer's over! I used to be completely anal about having the "Martha Stewart" kind of house - but I had to give that up - it's just not going to happen! I have worked my school schedule around my kids school days, but my youngest will have to attend the YMCA's before school care 3 days per week and my oldest will have to find a ride home one day per week or read a book in the library for 30 minutes until I get there to pick him up (I can hear it now! Nooooo, not reading! anything but that!) :chuckle

[Robin61970]

The first piece of advice my mother-in-law gave me when I started school was that I had to learn to let the housework go and concentrate on school.....this has been very hard for me to do.....I am also lucky though my husband says school is my full time job....we have

Stephen 7

Brittany 3

they are with us all the time......Brittany is in daycare while I go to school and Stephen gets out at 3.....I pick him up and on Monday, Tues., and Either Wed. or Thurs.(only one of those days) we have Taekwondo practice.....then on Monday and Thursday we have Baseball games with baseball practice on Tuesday night.

We also have Audry(boy 9) and Wesley(7) that live with their mom, but Wesley is on the same ball team as Stephen and all 3 boys are in Taekwondo together.....we have them our regular visitation, but on Wednesdays instead of going home at 9 pm they stay the night with us and we take them to school on Thursday.

We stay pretty busy and then there is my school and schoolwork.....you find a way to muddle through......I will do schoolwork while the boys are at practice....I take my chair and work on homework......You just have to find your stride.......