I often feel like I am living two separate lives...school and home. When I am here on campus I am Shelley the Education Major. I get to have intelligent conversations about things happening on campus and in our society. I can also sit quietly, if I so choose, and just reflect or read. I love being on campus! I even love the God forsaken shuttle...lol!! When I am on campus I get to experience a freedom from the demands of my life. Sometimes I feel like I am just playing a student on a made for T.V. movie because everything is so different for me when I leave this peaceful campus.
When I pull out onto Evergreen I ride into another life...Shelley the wife and mother. My life literally goes from 0-100 mph when I leave campus. My thoughts and energy shift to thinking about household things like:
who needs to be picked up first - Noah and Luke then Blain, go to the store for diapers, what am I going to make for dinner - Lemon Pepper Talapia w/rice, call Shawn - remind him to go to the bank, drop off the check at pre-school - crap I forgot the permission slip for the field trip, do the boys need bathes tonight - yes, crap PTA meeting is tonight, rethink dinner - something quick - spaghetti, OMG my mom is calling again - I don't have time to talk, and so on and on and on...
I would love to complain about how hard my life is being a wife, mother and student, but I am a very lucky girl. I get the intellectual stimulation of college and the devotion of an amazing husband and some of the best hugs in the world from the cutest boys you'll ever meet. Some days I have to work my butt off to keep all the balls in the air but I wouldn't have either of my lives any other way.
Have a GREAT Thanksgiving ~ Shelley
