Friday, March 4, 2011

Burning the Candle at Both Ends... Trying to Balance Work, Home & College

Just to kind of get an idea of what my family's typical week looks like, here it is:

Monday:
Tiffany works 7:00AM-3:30PM (1/2 hour lunch)
Dale has DBT Play Therapy 4:00PM-5:00PM
Tiffany has DBT Group 5:00PM-6:30PM
Mike works 9:00PM-5:30AM

Tuesday:
Tiffany works 8:00AM-4:30PM (1/2 hour lunch)
Mike picks up Victoria around 3:30PM
Dale has Taekwondo 5:00PM-5:40PM
Mike takes Victoria home & heads to work 8:00PM-5:30AM

Wednesday:
Tiffany works 8:00AM-4:30PM (1/2 hour lunch)
Tiffany has DBT one on one 5:00PM-6:00PM
Dale has Cub Scouts 6:30PM-8:00PM (Thank goodness for G'ma)
Tiffany has Professional Writing at Davenport 6:30PM-9:00PM
Mike works 8:30PM-5:30AM

Thursday:
Tiffany works 8:00AM-4:30PM (1/2 hour lunch)
Mike picks up Victoria around 3:30PM
Dale has Taekwondo 5:00PM-5:40PM
Mike takes Victoria home & heads to work 8:00PM-5:30AM

Friday:
Tiffany works 8:00AM-5:00PM
Mike & Tiffany meet w/mentor 6:45PM-8:00PM

Saturday:
Tiffany has Diversity Class at Davenport 9:00AM-12:00PM
Tiffany has Intermediate Algebra at Davenport 1:00PM-4:00PM

Sunday:
Family visits Dylan in Jonesville in the morning
Mike sleeps during the afternoon
Mike works 8:30PM-5:30AM

Keep in mind that there are doctors appointments, school functions and I also have an online 7 week crammed class for Access. I'm also working on a group project at the moment and an Academic Service Learning project where I'm volunteering to write grants for a local non-profit - all for my Professional Writing class. There are meetings, deadlines and work that is being done constantly on these assignments. I'm also involved with the National Society of Leadership and Success and have activities going on with that on top of my normal schedule. So far, the lowest grade I've received at Davenport has been a B+ or 3.30 in one class. My combined GPA dropped from 3.92 to 3.80 on a 4.0 scale. In order to keep my $4,000 Platinum Scholarship, I have to keep my GPA above a 3.20.

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