An Update While I Ignore The Homework For a Second

School is two days in, now.

I still feel like a chicken with her head cut off, as I wander around the campus like the biggest "minor niner" with her map and the most confused look ever. I spent tuesday with Will running around buying books and registering. And then, a few hundred dollars later, I went home with absolutely NO idea what I was getting into. When the first day of school actually happened yesterday, I arrived in the class, realizing that everyone else in the course knew what to expect and where to go and who the professors were, etc. Not me.!!! Apparently, they all went to the orientation that I quite obviously did not attend! For good reason-- I hadn't gotten the call by then.

I have had to get paperwork and medical records and criminal record checks...all stuff that was due-- uh-- last week!!! YIPES.

Lucky for me, I went to talk to the lead nurse in charge of the program to ask her where this elusive 'package' was that everyone else had but me. When I told her my name, she nodded her head and said she knew where my package was. She returned with a manila envelope, addressed to me, and sat at her desk with a smile. Then, politely, she smiled and shook her head.

"YOU, Debbi, are SOOOOO LUCKY!!!!"

It was overwhelming at that point, because she was then the THIRD teacher to have said that to me during the day. I was PENCILED into the bottom of every class list. I was the "after thought". I was barely even there! I was in the program by the hair on my chinny chin chin.

One teacher had told the class that there were over 100 people in the program. Now, currently there are still around 109 people on the waitlist!! I BEAT 100 people for this spot?! WOW!

And another teacher said that for the first year, there is usually one (OR FEWER) spots that open up at all.

But when the head nurse said it, it really struck me. I knew I was lucky, but the sudden feeling overwhelmed me and although I felt it before, I am feeling INCREDIBLY blessed for this opportunity to be back in school, doing what I've only ever imagined doing. It all just came together in a mere 20-second phone call, but with Mimi getting into kindergarten early and the school magically finding me a seat, it seems like God opened a window.

I sat in my classes, sponging everything up. Like a child on Christmas morning, just uber excited and hardly able to contain a smile. Everything they said, I wanted to do. Everything they taught, I was ready to learn. I've done two of the courses before (English and Biology) so I may even be able to drop them once the college gets my transcripts. And if not, I already know the material and could use a bit of a 'bird course' to pull up my GPA.

I am overwhelmed to come home each night and be a mom and wife, but the kids are adjusting alright, and after a bit of a 'growth' period, we'll all figure out how to make the cranks turn smoothly. Will helps immensely. Dinner and homework and cleaning and scriptures and lullabies and prayers and then I crumple into bed to begin again the next day.

And I am so happy to do it!!!!!!!!!!