It's Time for School!
Yeah! School is just around the corner. Aside from the obvious reason to love going back to school - buying new school supplies (yes, I love new pens, pencils, crayons, markers but that's a post for another day) - we are excited about coming to the time when the necessity for routine comes around.
I confess...we've been a little lax in the Billman household when it comes to bed time, chores, and the like. School is just the thing to put our household in order... I think. It's Saturday morning and the older kids spent the night with my parents. The little ones are still asleep because we let them stay up to watch a movie and sleep on the couch bed. I should be cleaning or something yet I've wasted a good hour and a half just hanging out in Facebook trying to find friends from high school.
I got in to update my profile to add my new graduate school. Yes, that's right. As if my life weren't crazy enough, I'm going back to school. I have this awesome opportunity to go to graduate school through the Naval Post Graduate School in Monterrey, California. I will attend classes via a PC camera. Others like me will do the same. The instructor will teach from his computer in Monterrey. In addition to that, the Army has sponsored my education so it will cost me nothing AND I get to do it during work, two days a week. Of course, studying and writing papers is on my own time.
Why, might you ask, am I taking on yet another task when it appears that I have so many already??? I confess...I know it may appear that now may not be the best timing but it is God's timing, I believe. This opportunity is only offered every two years (it takes two years to complete the program) and to top it off, it may not be funded. This year it is being offered. This year Army is funding. I prayed about it and didn't no for an answer so I applied.
Of course, being with the Government there were a 100 hoops to jump through, which I did. Then there was the competitive selection process, which I passed. And now there is just peace left that I am doing the right thing at the right time.
So the necessity for routine is much greater than in years past. Jaden is starting Kindergarten. Jordan is going into 8th and Caitlin into 4th. And I'm starting school after, ahem, 14 years of not being in school! It's going to be an adventure, for sure!
I confess...we've been a little lax in the Billman household when it comes to bed time, chores, and the like. School is just the thing to put our household in order... I think. It's Saturday morning and the older kids spent the night with my parents. The little ones are still asleep because we let them stay up to watch a movie and sleep on the couch bed. I should be cleaning or something yet I've wasted a good hour and a half just hanging out in Facebook trying to find friends from high school.
I got in to update my profile to add my new graduate school. Yes, that's right. As if my life weren't crazy enough, I'm going back to school. I have this awesome opportunity to go to graduate school through the Naval Post Graduate School in Monterrey, California. I will attend classes via a PC camera. Others like me will do the same. The instructor will teach from his computer in Monterrey. In addition to that, the Army has sponsored my education so it will cost me nothing AND I get to do it during work, two days a week. Of course, studying and writing papers is on my own time.
Why, might you ask, am I taking on yet another task when it appears that I have so many already??? I confess...I know it may appear that now may not be the best timing but it is God's timing, I believe. This opportunity is only offered every two years (it takes two years to complete the program) and to top it off, it may not be funded. This year it is being offered. This year Army is funding. I prayed about it and didn't no for an answer so I applied.
Of course, being with the Government there were a 100 hoops to jump through, which I did. Then there was the competitive selection process, which I passed. And now there is just peace left that I am doing the right thing at the right time.
So the necessity for routine is much greater than in years past. Jaden is starting Kindergarten. Jordan is going into 8th and Caitlin into 4th. And I'm starting school after, ahem, 14 years of not being in school! It's going to be an adventure, for sure!
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