Mamabear I'm glad you have help and have NO DOUBT that you'd figure something out if you didn't. (Funny I see so many moms of young ones doing this and its the dads who seem to be more concerned how to balance family and these exams.)
And while its nice that older kids don't require constant entertainment, diaper changes, food cut into tiny pieces, etc. 5 nights a week of games, practices, scouts really is a time killer. On an average day I was up at 5am, at work by 7am, used my lunch break to get my kids at school because we couldn't use the school busses, home by 4:30 at practice by 5 or 5:30, studying in my car in a parking lot, home by 7 then dinner. Kids would start homework by 8, I would do my schoolwork from 8-10, stop for a half hour to do laundry and clean up, then start studying CPA material from 10:30-12:30. Yup I survived on 4.5-5 hours of sleep per night for that year. Then on weekends I'd study for a few hours before I headed out to Kohls, work 4-6 hours there, go home catch up on laundry and housework, listen to the audio while I walked the dogs and did yardwork, get a solid 8 hours sleep for those two nights and start all over again.
Why did I stretch myself that thin? I WANTED it that badly. If I hadn't it wouldn't have been worth it. But my kids didn't go without anything during that time that they needed their mom for even if it meant not opening the book until after 10pm, which is why I say it CAN be done but doesn't have to be. Trust me once you have children theres not a point that you have more time for yourself……..not when they're 5, not when they're in high school.
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Massachusetts CPA (non reporting) since 3/12.
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