In my favorite poem by Robert Frost, Nothing Gold Can Stay, he reminds us that like the seasons of nature, life is one season melting into another, and quickly fading away. This is my attempt to document each season in my life and my family.

I kind of feel like…

Filed under: General — Rachel at 7:16 pm on Monday, October 22, 2007

I kind of feel like a college student.  Here I am, sitting at my laptop in my school sweatshirt with the hood pulled up over my head, and pajama pants, empty soda cans everywhere to testify to my homework fueled need for caffeine. I’m listening to music entirely too loud, and I’m blogging to procrastinate writing a paper about poetry. Yep. Kind of feels collegiate.

However, the laundry piled up is not just mine. I have four other people’s clothing needs depending on me. For dinner, instead of ordering cheap pizza while I study, I made a meal for my family. Instead of my roommates staying up late to study, too, I have to make sure they take a bath and get to bed by eight thirty. When our whole floor is sniffling and coughing with change of season colds, instead of simply commiserating, I have to help them blow their noses and constantly evade them and their attempts to clean their noses on my sleeve. While my living space is just as messy as your average college student’s, I have an extra load of mommy guilt to go with it. Guilt or not, though, I get permanent grades on history and psychology, and the house will always need cleaned. School takes priority over cleaning, but kids take priority over school. It’s a complicated balance.

Yeah, I kind of feel like a college student.

Kinda.

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Comment by Sarah

October 23, 2007 @ 8:56 am

I don’t know how you do it! You ‘are’ super mom aren’t you?! I want to go back to college someday when my kids are a little bit older too. I homeschool though so I know it will be a challenge. We’ll see, it might still be ten years down the road…

Comment by Jenn

October 23, 2007 @ 1:36 pm

Yes, kind of like a college student, but don’t you think this life is so much more fufilling than if you were doing this as a single coed?! I’m amazed by your energy and determination. Keep it up!

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