RAK's

I have decided to do another round of RAK's or Random Acts of Kindess for the month of Oct.  I am shooting for one thing per day.  I have written down a few ideas and hopefully do one a day for a total of 31.  It is SO fun to think of things to do and even more fun to carry them out.  So for today I sent a text to a middle schooler for her birthday.  Not a big thing but still an act of kindness in my book.  I'm trying to stay simple and cheap since the online class I am taking is VERY HARD.

It has been a LONG time since I have been in school.  I have my AA degree and a tad more but that was 16 years ago.  YIKES time flies.  My first class was exciting and intersting and fun.  It was Health and Wellness.  I passed the class with a 91%.  My new class...oh I almost dread it.  I am having a hard time living my life normally.  There are so many other things I want to do right now.  I want to pick the tomatoes and turn them into salsa or sauce or something before it freezes outside.  I want to preserve our zucchini.  The pumpkins need tending.  I want to have a cleaner home and spend more time in the kids' classes.  I want to organize.  I want to be a better preparer or healhty dinners. 

And yet I need to study...and that is what I have been doing almost all day every day....expect I take it easy on Saturday and I don't study on Sunday.  My schedule kind of looks like this:

I wake up at 6 and get kids up.  I make breakfast and get older two out the door at 7:15.  I do an exercise video (sometimes Rachel will join me) and then get the younger three out the door at 8:15.  Once eveyone leaves I study my scriptures and check email and FB.  Then at about 9:00 or 9:30 I start my studies for the day.  I stop for lunch and then again when I have to go pick up kids at 2:30.  If Don picks them up I continue on until about 4:30 when the younger ones get off the bus.  If I pick up the kids I come home and begin studying again for a bit until 4:30.  I stop at that time and help kids with homework and get dinner on the table and then we do scriptures and prep for bed.  If I have enough energy I will study a little at night before bedtime.  I ususally get to bed at 11:00. Sometimes later....just depends. 

So my ideas for the RAK's is going to have to be things I can do quickly or on weekends.  I am going to get the kids involved and there is one that Don will help me do.  I am sooooo excited.  I will definately have to share my ideas each day....if I can fit it in.

Oh and back to my online class.  It is a government class on the Constitution.  I have memorized the preamble to the constitution and have done chapters one and two....but need to really learn more about what each amendment is.  I can hardly keep all of this straight and I have 12 more chapters left.  This stuff really phyches me out.  Don keeps telling me to say I CAN DO THIS I CAN DO THIS I CAN DO THIS.  So if you randomly hear me saying that you will know why.  I have to play these mind games.  If I don't I start to almost panick.  I have only six weeks left of this class and I am a little scared.....ok terrified...panicky.....AHHHH it is like learning a foreign language.  I really don't like math too much but give me math over this any day. 

If you feel so inclined please add me to your prayers.  I have been praying for a super power brain to learn all of this but so far I haven't been given one.  Do you think it is unreasonable to pray for such a thing?  I DON'T.  :)

OK it is 9:30....I wonder if I have it in me to do some more studying.  Do you know what Federalism is?  What do you know about the Articles of Confederation?  What president was huge in helping the first African American man get into a university in the south?  Do you know how many articles we have in the constition?  How many amendments?  Which amendments are the Bill of Rights?  What year did America actually recieve its indepence?  And no it isn't July 4, 1776. 

Phew...now do you hear what I'm saying about this class?  They really think I am going to be able to learn all of this?  HEHEHE  I know this stuff is very important.  I think everyone should have to learn this.  It should be required to take in highschool.  I am learning more about Ronald Raegan. I really really like him.  I love what he stood for.  I agree with alot of his ideas.  I wonder if they could show his debate (if that is what they called it then) before the Pres. debates this Wed.  He was awesome.  George Washington is what kind of Pres we need again. 

I am learning so much.  I have always had a hard time sitting still for so long.  I am ALWAYS doing and on the go.  I have to be with five kids.  So sitting for five or more hours at a time learning something that is difficult for me is a challenge and is teaching me more than just patience.  I am grateful for this opportunity to go back to school and get my BA.