Lots of changes lately!
Many of you know, I’ve wanted to get into nursing school for a while, and I’ve explored options for trying to get into school and work at the same time and they just aren’t there. Nursing school is during the day and I don’t feel I can go to work at night with the kids. Karen has urged me to go ahead and just go for it and randomly sends me scholarship information, which I file away…but never do anything about.
Last Saturday, Karen and I had coffee and cake at the Olive Garden, which has been one of our “traditions”, and she brought it up again. I brushed it off again, but by later that night, something had changed and I’d decided to go for it. From that moment on, there were numerous signs that it was the right thing to do! Monday morning, Mr. P told me that they wouldn’t be able to keep me on any longer, he’s lost a lot of business and they can’t afford it. He was teary eyed, he thought I’d be upset…but I was grinning ear to ear.
I went down to the new community college that has a brand new nursing program and talked with a counselor and it would be crazy to try to get into the RN program (what I wanted) but found I could get into the LPN program, take the prerequisites this summer (June 1 start date!) and fall, starting LPN school in the spring. The top 10 in the class jump right into the 2nd year RN classes and graduate with that class as an RN.
So, I’m going for it…and I’m scared as all heck, but I know it is the right thing to do! Lots and lots of things have to fall into place to make it possible but I know that there is a way. My next step is to go back to the school, sign up for the first round of classes and put my deposit down. Then start class on June 1st!
