School is back in swing.  This semester I am not just a student.  I am also an instructor.  I took last semester off to spend more time with the kids–well mostly with Zoë.  I missed teaching but was happy to just have family and my own studies to focus on.  Now I am back multi-tasking when it comes to school.  Hubby and I have been together over 12 years and I have been a student the entire time–aside from one year that I took off after I got my first full-time teaching job.  He has been patient and I am so lucky to have such a supportive husband because it is hard.  School takes up a lot of time and requires me to be gone quite a few hours each week.  I love you hubby. 

I am teaching a course that I haven’t taught before.  I am excited about teaching it because it’s an advanced composition course, but I have the added issue that the class only meets one time a week for 2 1/2 hours.  This is nice becasue I only have to be gone one day a week and I have an awesome aunt who was laid off and has offered to babysit on Fridays until she gets another job.  I have been working hard on creating a syllabus and brushing up on teaching argument and critical analysis.  I am use to teaching the developmental course and this class is an entirely different beast.  It will require much longer hours in terms of preparation and grading. 

I had my first class last night as a student.  I am excited about the class as it an advanced educational research design.  This course is where I first start to think about my dissertation research and create a proposal.  I have a great deal of literature to review and synthesize.  It makes me realize how close I actually am to finishing my course work and sitting for comps is just around the corner.  Holy Shit.