Life has been so busy!!

Life has been so busy this past week! I feel like I am running in circles with no end in sight! They joked around in our information meeting for nursing school that we might as well tell our husbands we wouldn't see them for the next two years and I am only 3 weeks in and I now realize that they weren't joking! It saddens me to realize that Eric and I's time together consists of waking up together to an alarm clock every morning, eating breakfast together some mornings, having lunch together a few days a week when I don't have class during lunch time, eating dinner together every night (which is our saving grace, because we eat at our table together and we have time of fellowship to talk about our days and spend time together), we then do homework and study in the same room but not really "together", we then go to bed and spend time talking before bed and then it all starts over again. The weekends are spent about the same with the exception of church and Sunday dinners if we have enough studying done to take out a couple extra hours of our day to spend with family, which is important but sometimes it just doesn't happen no matter how hard we try, stuff comes up and we just can't.

I have had my normal of two tests and a quiz weekly and we a had a small homework assignment due this week also. I feel like all I do is study and take tests! Woo hoo!! I guess I should be pretty knowledgeable by the time I get done! LOL...at least I hope I retain something! My tests continue to go well. Just a lot of information for each one!

When PK was talking about addictions last week Eric and I jokingly said that I was addicted to school. It at times feels that way though. If I sit back and think about it: my life is scheduled around it, I spend time doing things for it everyday of the week, I can't go without for a day let alone a week, so I guess I am addicted to school. How do you separate yourself from something that demands so much of your time? I mean I do incorporate time for God and my family but I just don't feel like there is enough time and I definitely feel like school gets way more of my time than anything else. But I feel like if I don't devote that much time to it I will fail out. Then what? I guess I am really torn on how to effectively balance God,school, my family, my friends and life in general. Any suggestions? Can you be addicted to school? Because I know I and others definitely feel like we are! Thanks for your prayers regarding this issue! Prayer is the only thing that keeps me sane!

On a side note I have to say one thing that is helping me get through nursing school and stay sane is that I am becoming good friends with someone from our church with whom I didn't really know before starting school this semester. I knew of this person and I see them at church and Eric knew them but I never really "knew" them. I am now developing a great friendship and it is awesome to know I have a sister in Christ going through the same struggles with me! This person started talking to me about church and how she hadn't seen me on the worship team for a long time the first day of class and then I made the connection of who she was and we have been talking at school daily since! Pretty awesome how God works and puts people in our lives. I am really excited to develop this friendship and see what happens! Funny how God works!