Non-Adoption News

Okay now for some non-adoption news with the New Year brings another set of stresses. I have not mentioned this in my blog as of yet because it has not come to mind but I am currently in school for my BSN. I go to school online at the University of Phoenix. The classes are only 5 weeks long for 3 college credits. I knew that I wanted to finish my education before the baby came so maybe that is the reason why I took a break. My job pays for about 6000 dollars of education every year so I only take enough credits until these funds are exhausted. I started in 2004 and hope to be finished in June 2008. I can not tell you how excited I am about being close to done with this degree.

Gerard is a good sport about it. I think it is hard for him to understand why I want to finish this since I will only get a minimal raise. I never want to do anything but acute care nursing as a staff nurse. My thoughts are is that once the baby comes it will be 20 years before I could do something like this for myself and maybe I will want to do something different in 10 years who knows.

What Gerard does not know is that I am going to plan on finishing my Masters in Nursing Education too. I will tell him that next year when he needs to know. Education is never a waste.
I have to say that I am a little worried about how I am going to help my child pay for college. I know that I will have to start to save right away. I think once I am finished with the whole adoption process and transition that will be the first thing that I will investigate. Gerard and I feel that it is important to help a child with an education but that he or she also needs to be invested in paying for their education. This is a lot to think about.