More thank-yous
To my friend J and her husband K, who looked after all the boys yesterday so I could go house-hunting again (this is the same friend who did the same thing last week). The boys had a great time - poor Jack really didn’t want to leave - cried all the way home, repeating “I don’t want to go home! I want to stay!” It is much, much easier to view houses when you’re not repeatedly explaining to your children that no, even if we do buy this house, we don’t get the toys that are here now…Anyway, we still haven’t found the right house. Well, we have, but it’s not in the right location. And the house in the right location isn’t the right house, if all that makes sense to anyone except me. And I keep having minor panic-attacks at the thought of all the money we’re spending (or, more to the point, borrowing).
To my other friend J and her husband J, who looked after all the boys today so that Scratchy and I could attend our respective OU thingies. Scratchy is in a much better mood this evening than he has been all week, which I take to mean that he no longer believes he’s going to crash and burn on his course (thank goodness, maybe he’ll stop snapping at all of us now). I, on the other hand, still feel that I have bitten off way more than I can chew. I can do the stuff, I just can’t find the time, and when I can find the time, I can’t find the inclination. At my tutorial, I discovered that some of what I was doing on my course was right and some of what I was doing was wrong, so at least the tutorial was helpful. And the tutor didn’t call me names when I appeared to be completely stupid, so that was nice of him ;-). Really, really must get stuck in this week and get caught up on all my courses. If we are moving this spring/summer, there’s even more urgency for me to get everything finished than there was when the deadline was just “before the baby’s born”!
In: education, family, life, social stuff
141 Views
Posts
Don’t know *how* you manage to even contemplate OU stuff in addition to HE/parenting nearly 5 children! Glad your tutorials went well.
I’m insane, that’s how. People don’t believe me when I tell them - at least, they don’t at first. But then they get to know me better and they realise it’s true.
I am not doing 90 points again next year though. I’ll try to stick it out this year, but I’m not putting myself through this again.