ED 240 # 3 It's all a balancing act...

Today has been a lesson in time management. It's like God is testing my tensile strength and waiting for me to snap.

But I refuse to.

So it's bad enough that this year the MAT program has been compressed into 5 weeks from 10 weeks. But I was expecting this, so I've been mentally prepared for it and have been dealing with it pretty well. No big deal. Two of the classes are great. One class is a joke. I stress more about the joke class because I can find meaning in the work given to us in the great classes. I can't find any meaning in the work given to us in the joke class. It just makes me mad. But I still cope.

Finding time to do homework between bottle feedings, naptimes, walks, and all the other things that raising a baby entails is challenging, but so far, so good. I haven't been getting much sleep, but I also expected that, and I still cope.

Finding time to do homework, take care of a baby, and raise a teenage daughter is REALLY challenging. Especially when you have to find time to make sure that your teen is not getting into trouble during the summer, all the while taking the time to make sure that said teenage daughter does not feel neglected because you are spending too much time doing schoolwork or caring for an infant son. But I still cope.

Finding time to do homework, take care of a baby, raise a teenage daughter, and make sure your wife still remembers who the heck you are...well, that's just icing on the cake. I think she still remembers what I look like, I mean, it's only been two weeks, right? So I still cope.

Today, I finally made an appointment for my son at the doctor. We noticed a few weeks ago that one of his eyes looked kind of "quirky." My wife took him in while I was in class today. To make a long story short, he's got a tumor in his eye. Not sure what it is yet. He's got an appointment with a specialist at Children's Hospital next week. Since we're not sure it's cancer (yet) I can still cope.

We'll see what happens after the appointment next week.

But I still refuse to snap.