Sabotaging myself?

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Well, I'll give the abbreviated version of my long story.

I started a Tech-Prep program in high school through the community college, well the waiting list was 2-3 years for a 2 year program. I got fed up with waiting, got a associates in medical office management and went to school for EMS. Finished both of those programs without a problem. I recently enrolled in a LPN program finished the 1st semester with straight A's. Then my mom backed out of babysitting (I have 3 kids) so I had to withdraw from the program. Now I am enrolled at a university for a 4 year BSN program, I just feel like something always comes up. I WANT to be a nurse, a L&D nurse, then I want to go on to NP or CNM just depends where life takes me. I have such a passion for nursing but it's like life keeps getting in the way. Is it me? Or a series of bad circumstances? I start the BSN program in the winter, should graduate in 2012, which would give me plenty of time to get it done! I just feel like the whole world is flying past and I am stuck in park. Anyone else ever feel like the whole world was against them becoming a nurse? Or is it me? Or is it that it just hasn't been the right time yet?!

Ah, so many questions, I know you can't answer them, I guess I am just looking for success stories of those in NS or about to finish so that I can say "I can do it TOO!"

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I strongly believe everything happens for a reason. I am 36 and am in a community college ADN program, so my getting beck into school took a while. I went back to school after over 15 yrs, so its never too late. If the passions there, it will lead you. DO NOT GIVE UP. You are in the BSN program so don't let circumstances trip you up. Good Blessings to you from a fellow nursing student with 2 teenagers and trying to make them do their homework while I do mine.

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thank you VERY much futurenurse!

I really don't think it's lack of passion, ambition or drive, I think it has just been bad timing in my life. Now 2 of my girls are in ALL DAY school and the other is almost a year and a half. So child care for one isn't going to be bad during the day. (The LPN program was evening so I needed care for all 3 kids.) This time I am taking steps to improve my situation and help me through nursing school. I hope this is the time. I know that whether it be now or 30 years from now, I WILL finish nursing school. Nursing is who I am...

Plus more than anything I want my girls to see, through all the trials and tribulations college can/will be done.

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