Haven't had much time to post

I have been so busy trying to finish off the second anatomy & physiology course at my college. Although it's not required for me to take immediately, it is a requirement to graduate from the nursing program, so while I'm waiting to get into the program, I'm taking whatever else I can to make nursing school easier. My goal is to be finished with all the other requirements as soon as I start nursing school. I've only got two classes left now, so I should be able to knock them out next semester. In the meantime, I've been just studying as much as the kids will let me. There's something to be said for not being the first parent home from work. I think I get to deal with all the crap that the kids do immediately when they get home from school and by the time J gets home, it's done and over with. We've been having problems lately with Cole having two little "mommies" that like to yell at him, so he shuts down and annoys them more, so they yell more and the cycle continues. It's times like these that I remember exactly why it is that I didn't want to have three children. I really would have liked four, and even two would have been okay, but three is just about the hardest number you can have in my opinion. There's just always someone that is the odd man out, so two always gang up on the other one. It's very frustrating. And there's something about this time of year that just makes my kids go nuts. Every year around this time they start to seriously misbehave and it just drives us bonkers. So I'm dealing with all that while trying my hardest to study for this final exam. The school that I'm going to is our county's online community college. My thought is that they were afraid that people wouldn't take them seriously because they're an online school and so they made the classes (well, from what I've heard, just the science classes--which is all I've taken so far) so ridiculously hard. Most people don't pass on the first try, and getting a B is a really big deal. So the final exams and midterms are some of the most difficult exams I've ever taken and require a lot of study and concentration--which is hard to do when kids interrupt you fifty million times. So I was just stressing about this final and wanted to be done with it. I had until tomorrow to take it, but my boss was kind enough to let me off work this afternoon to go take it (she said she could just see how stressed I was). And I passed with probably the highest grade I've gotten on a midterm or final yet. My essays haven't been graded yet, so I don't know exactly what my grade will be, but even with a zero on the essays I can't fail. So I'm very excited (not to mention the relief!). I'm one more step closer to becoming a nurse and I've got one less class to reach my goal. Now I can relax and worry about getting Christmas cards done and presents wrapped. Bring on the holidays!