What was the first thing to go?

All of the above!!!

1. Date nights, but try for at least once a month

2. House work, hubby picks up the slack

3. I've gotten my showers down to 8 mins if need be... That includes shaving

4. Sleep

5. Exercise/sanity, they go hand in hand with me.

However, I have noticed that if I get sufficient sleep, nutrition, and exercise, then I am able to use logical reasoning during tests a lot better. Hang in there and deep breaths, you can do this!

I'm in week 2 and for me it was exercise and eating real food. But now I feel like poo so I I will be packing my meals from now on.

social life, gym, sleep, school work.. right now I am missing only the first

but I hope that isn't how tough your nursing program is lol

1. Date nights

2. Sleep; I still get sufficient amounts though

3. Dishes

I always eat healthy, exercise and shower, lol. We have to take care of ourselves during nursing school. Two-four years of barely exercising and eating badly will do alot to your body and mind:)

TV

Saturday's with my kids (my husband has been taking them places so I can study)

I am holding onto Friday night date night so that we get to see each other at least a little.

Oh, housework. Hands down.

Who needs clean floors and dust-free bookcases when I have five chapters to get through? Laundry is easy enough to keep up with (and gives me breaks from the reading to fold) but the housework in general is a no-go during the semester. In fact, that's what I do to let loose a little after the semester ends... scrub the house from top to bottom, throw a good party and get ready to start all over again!

Sleep is way more necessary for my learning capability than extra hours studying. Exercise I squeeze in with kettlebell reps and dog walks to give my brain processing time. And thank the good lord my husband is as quiet and independent as I am, not to mention a decent cook. He makes sure I eat every now and again. It's tough to keep balanced, isn't it?

So far,

1. Friends

2. Looking pretty (scrubs, ponytail and no makeup at this point)

3. Shopping (grocery store is now once every 10 days or so and no other shopping at all)

4. Housework

5. Private hubby time (gotta figure out how to fix this one)

Married with 3 kids, work part-time. Nothing has changed. Still cook, still do dishes, still clean, still attend all the kids soccer games, still read for pleasure.

I was determined to not lose my non-nursing school life and so far I haven't had to. Now that may change in a few weeks once clinicals begin, but for now I'm right where I was before school started.

Married with 4 kids here..it's impossible to let anything go! Life goes on and I physically and mentally cannot sit on my toosh with my nose constantly in a book. I need my kids to have some semblance of a mother while I'm home!

I will say though, that laundry has definitely been put on the back burner. I have four baskets of wrinkly unfolded, unsorted laundry upstairs right now that hopefully will get taken care of tonight. When I had classes over the summer, my laundry was literally collecting dust. I did start to develop a system where everyone had their own basket and that was working...I don't know what happened. I'm going to try to get that back again.

I have six classes this semester and two clinical days that just started. Kids are back at school so we have that craziness now too.

So the semester starts and you have to read 145 chapters a night for the 2,000 question tests your professors give every 3 days. You can no longer do it all, so what do you let go of first?

Sleep? Showers? Dishes? Date nights? Exercise? Sanity?

Select ALL that apply.

a. sleep ✓

b. showers

c. dishes ✓

d. date nights ✓

e. exercise ✓

f. sanity ✓

Not bad. 5 out of 6 apply. Do I get a cookie?

I will have several of these types of questions on my first major exam in about a week.

Only my sanity has left me so far. I still have time to do other things like read or enjoy time out on the weekends, and even some weekdays after my work for school is done. I don't have to work, have kids, or a spouse, so that definitely helps I'm sure!