Ablie1

Thank you very much! I could use that too! :)

Hello all, I'm very new to this site and I hope I'm posting in the right section. I just got accepted into a very competitive nursing school and I start in January. I'm a single mother of two boys, ages 11 and 14, and I'll be 37 soon. I currently work full time in an unrelated field. Our nursing school orientation was last night, and since then, I've been really worried about some things. I almost feel like this is going to be impossible for me. First of all, I don't have a choice in working full time. I have to support my kids and myself, and I barely scrape by as it is. I was told that going to school at night and working more than 20 hours is a kiss of death. Secondly, my boys have been making things very difficult for me. I waited to go back to school until I thought they were old enough, but it seems that each night at my house, there is some sort of conflict between them and myself. They have become increasingly sneaky, disobedient, aggressive, and rude towards me and each other. I feel that in the best of circumstances, it would be hard to make it through nursing school, but I have less than optimum circumstances and very little support. There is nothing else I'd rather do other than nursing, and I feel this is my calling. I've wanted to be a nurse since I was 15 and started volunteering in the hospitals. But I'm afraid that I won't have the energy to keep going when it seems that everything is stacked against me right now. I don't think anyone else would understand how my joy at being accepted has now turned to anxiety about being unable to finish. The whole thing really has me feeling sort of down... Would appreciate any advice anyone may have. Thank you