High hopes

I'm feeling much better than at the end of 2015 these days.  Though I'm really tired I feel like I'm coping a bit better with my anxiety.

This week I signed back on the MBA.  I have six credits left (out of sixteen!) SO I really think my if I can stick to it I can finish it this year.  It's been six years since I started it,  I feel pretty embarrassed!  When I first started I only did two classes,  then started a four year hiatus as I started freelancing,  then met Cookie,  then married.  Two year ago I returned, and was progressing well,  then took another break when baby Peanut was born and I returned to school.  I didn't feel like I could manage the MBA on top of that,  but now that I'm not teaching anymore...  I am very nervous out,  I hope I can manage.  It's all online,  so in theory I have a chance of doing in it my "own" time.  I don't feel like a own a lot of time right now,  though! Hopefully Cookie will step up and help me more with the baby on weekends so I can do homework.

I don't particularly need the MBA for my work,  so mostly this is a time investment  for when I return to teach,  in what
Cookie and I estimate will be five to ten years.  A lot will obviously change in that time!  But I need the grade for teaching in most schools,  and right now I had managed that by being on the program and having an estimated date to finishing it.  So having the grade will be an asset,  come what may.

I also really want to finish it because my father is retiring this year.  Because he works at the University this is probably the last year I can get a scholarship.  Another reason to be embarrassed for not finishing sooner!  Without the scholarship it would be a bit difficult for me to pay for it.  I suppose I just kept letting life get in the way and being complacent,  but I have a serious deadline now.