The last two weeks have been emotionally a little trying. It has
been busy and a lot of change has happened for our little family. The changes
are all good and wanted but it has been an adjustment. For the most part of the
past 18 months Ruby and I have gone to bed and woken up when we wanted. We have
grocery shopped, swam, done laundry, and ate whenever we felt like it. Though
there were times when we had set things to do, for the most part we have just
lived this carefree lifestyle. I found it crazy that babies had bed times and
nap times and snack times and meal times and tv times and that there was
organization and structure in the world.I decided (well Heavenly Father
decided) that I needed to go back to school. I graduated in 2010 and just
needed to finish up a few things. Grades were really bad those last few
semesters and I just didn’t finish as I should have. President Monson gave a
talk about this, “Finishers Wanted” that I always kept coming back to and
thinking of. Nic felt that same impression and has been very great at pushing
me to do what is best for me. Which, as some and most moms probably know, ME
isn’t really something I’ve thought about in the past three or so years. It
feels good to focus on improving myself and making my life the best it can be.
I know it will help my babies and grandbabies but most of all it will help
me.It turns out that schedule wise, the idea of going back to school and
finishing or fixing what I had messed up was in the cards for me when all the
classes aligned to be close together time was and even though I have to commute
four days a week, it just somehow worked. The schedule is trying and tiring and
I’m only one week in. But I know that this will happen quickly and that these
twelve weeks of my life will be valuable in learning the importance of
structure and organization. I have already been longing for bed time and nap
time and meal time and snack time. Wish I would have done things right the
first time and just started it off like that. But luckily baby Jones number two
is going to have this in his life.
My schedule is Monday and Wednesday from 1:00-3:45. This means we leave here at about 11:30 and take Ruby to “Kid’s on the Move” in Orem. She gets there at just after 12 which gives her the chance to eat, play and nap. I had heard a lot about the school from a friend whose goes there for preschool. But I found out they have a daycare too, and was really impressed with everything. I didn’t even go look at it before hand, because things just felt so great and everyone was so helpful I knew it would be a safe place for my Ruby. She has absolutely loved the first week. She was originally in a younger class, but as usual Ruby is a boss and moved on up to the older kids class. Which was really great since their nap time is later and she’s potty trained and looks like she’s five. So it’s good for her. They are teaching and redirecting things that I hadn’t really noticed (THE WORD NO!) and it’s just been so great.
I go to class during the time she is there, and my classes are really great. The requirements changed at UVU from what my major was. And the classes are all a little refreshing. There are familiar faces in the professors and luckily not many students that I know or recognize. I’ve felt so self conscious of this choice and just have such high hopes that it will lead to a bigger path and so I feel grateful for the chance to be there. I am hoping to go to WGU and get my Masters in Education with a teaching certificate. But I wanted to have these things taken care of before I started anything there.
Tuesday and Thursday are little more crazy. Ruby started preschool at Puddle Jumpers in South Jordan. It came highly recommended by a few friends who are ex-teachers themselves. Retired while they raise their babies. I met with the Owner this spring and fell in love with the place. Again, Ruby is the youngest but she fits in pretty great. I can see the things that make her two opposed to three and it’s been nice for me to try and work on those things (cutting, writing, colors, etc…) that she has an idea about, but doesn’t have down. And they are things I should have realized before. The example I was using, is Ruby knows her ABC’s song but she just knows the tune. She doesn’t know that there is a reason we sing A-B-C… Anyway. Great for Mom too. Especially because I want Ruby to take advantage of being born in October, and having those extra months to prepare.
I drop Ruby off at 11:25 and RUSH on Thursdays to Orem where I have a lecture series. My Tuesdays are less stressful because I don’t have to be there until 1pm. Between Katy, Grami, and of course the Scoob Ruby gets picked up at 2:35 and gets to share with everyone her love for Miss. Cassie, the projects and all that she learned in preschool. I feel sick that I am missing out on that. But at the same time, glad that I can have her picked up by people that love her so much. I am excited that after baby brother comes we will get to pick her up and hear all about her day first hand.
The first week of preschool was before I had started back at school, the first thing she mentions to me when she gets picked up is all about what the other girls were wearing and how their hair was done. I can’t stop laughing about it. Also, in the first two weeks she has tried to swap backpacks, and she brought a TANGLED toy for A-Week because Mom didn’t realize until asking her later what her friends brought to preschool that you were supposed to send something that started with the letter A.
I am so grateful for this time in our life. Even though I have felt like dying from the soreness of walking up stairs, running from class to class, driving over an hour a day, it’s just not the norm that I am used to. So, this has been a hard week but I am learning a lot. Now I have the weekend to clean my house, work, and do homework!
My schedule is Monday and Wednesday from 1:00-3:45. This means we leave here at about 11:30 and take Ruby to “Kid’s on the Move” in Orem. She gets there at just after 12 which gives her the chance to eat, play and nap. I had heard a lot about the school from a friend whose goes there for preschool. But I found out they have a daycare too, and was really impressed with everything. I didn’t even go look at it before hand, because things just felt so great and everyone was so helpful I knew it would be a safe place for my Ruby. She has absolutely loved the first week. She was originally in a younger class, but as usual Ruby is a boss and moved on up to the older kids class. Which was really great since their nap time is later and she’s potty trained and looks like she’s five. So it’s good for her. They are teaching and redirecting things that I hadn’t really noticed (THE WORD NO!) and it’s just been so great.
I go to class during the time she is there, and my classes are really great. The requirements changed at UVU from what my major was. And the classes are all a little refreshing. There are familiar faces in the professors and luckily not many students that I know or recognize. I’ve felt so self conscious of this choice and just have such high hopes that it will lead to a bigger path and so I feel grateful for the chance to be there. I am hoping to go to WGU and get my Masters in Education with a teaching certificate. But I wanted to have these things taken care of before I started anything there.
Tuesday and Thursday are little more crazy. Ruby started preschool at Puddle Jumpers in South Jordan. It came highly recommended by a few friends who are ex-teachers themselves. Retired while they raise their babies. I met with the Owner this spring and fell in love with the place. Again, Ruby is the youngest but she fits in pretty great. I can see the things that make her two opposed to three and it’s been nice for me to try and work on those things (cutting, writing, colors, etc…) that she has an idea about, but doesn’t have down. And they are things I should have realized before. The example I was using, is Ruby knows her ABC’s song but she just knows the tune. She doesn’t know that there is a reason we sing A-B-C… Anyway. Great for Mom too. Especially because I want Ruby to take advantage of being born in October, and having those extra months to prepare.
I drop Ruby off at 11:25 and RUSH on Thursdays to Orem where I have a lecture series. My Tuesdays are less stressful because I don’t have to be there until 1pm. Between Katy, Grami, and of course the Scoob Ruby gets picked up at 2:35 and gets to share with everyone her love for Miss. Cassie, the projects and all that she learned in preschool. I feel sick that I am missing out on that. But at the same time, glad that I can have her picked up by people that love her so much. I am excited that after baby brother comes we will get to pick her up and hear all about her day first hand.
The first week of preschool was before I had started back at school, the first thing she mentions to me when she gets picked up is all about what the other girls were wearing and how their hair was done. I can’t stop laughing about it. Also, in the first two weeks she has tried to swap backpacks, and she brought a TANGLED toy for A-Week because Mom didn’t realize until asking her later what her friends brought to preschool that you were supposed to send something that started with the letter A.
I am so grateful for this time in our life. Even though I have felt like dying from the soreness of walking up stairs, running from class to class, driving over an hour a day, it’s just not the norm that I am used to. So, this has been a hard week but I am learning a lot. Now I have the weekend to clean my house, work, and do homework!
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