Showing posts with label university and motherhood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label university and motherhood. Show all posts

Tuesday, 2 July 2013

A Happy List

Today I found out that I worked my ass off for a 2:1 degree, and I am very proud. I'm not a very gracious 'winner' but I really thought I'd blown it. I really thought I'd messed up my dissertation, and to an extent I do still want to kick myself really hard for messing up my time-management over the last year (a lot). But, all aside, I am very very happy and I can breathe a little easier and sleep a little better tonight! I hate to say it, but Jamie was right. And I am going to allow myself to be stupidly happy about it. And DAYYYUM I keep thinking I'm going to wake up and it was all a dream because I've had four dreams that I've had a 2:1 over the last few months and woken up with dread each time. 

Other things to be happy about, not all but including:

- My grandparents are coming to visit tomorrow, I LOVED telling them my grades :) I do wish they lived closer.
- Molly's photo's arriving really really fast. I've printed 500 that span from her birth to about one and a half with a few from later on thrown in. 
- The prospect of starting her handmade album, I have enough photo's to make her a photo-a-week now yay!
- The dollshouse our kind kind neighbours gave Molly, its huge and wooden. I've started painting it and it's my favourite summer project. Molly LOVES it and started thanking us for painting it!
- Our weekends away planned over the next few months. Cheap and cheerful.
- Graduating. Though it's cost me £120 without even getting to the day! Fortunately I already have a dress.
- Molly's new slide (thankyou nanny and gangan- she won't go on it without saying thank you to them even when they aren't there!)
- Today in general, for an inspiring member of my much loved family.
- Running the race for life. I've never ran anything before so I'm really proud of us- bring on running club!
- Pinning inspiration for our forever home.
- My wonderful friends and family, for being them.

Friday, 4 May 2012

Temporarily unable to blog..

So my posts are going to continue as few and far between I'm afraid until next Thursday as I go through the motions of finishing my second year at uni. One (three hour) exam, and one 3000 word essay down. Two assignments to go!
I’m feeling rather proud of myself today (which makes a change from my usual panicked mess around deadlines). I may of had a teen pregnancy, but I’ve managed to not let it set me back and I’m really proud to be getting my degree as well as tackling motherhood. It’s not easy continuing my education, and a lot of the time I get in a state and tell Jamie I want to give up and grab a job, any job that doesn’t require thought (I call this the 'academic wall' I've hit it a lot). But I feel as though I’m finally beginning to see it as rewarding and actually even enjoying it! It's not all fun and games, and a lot of the time it's really, really hard but if it were easy it wouldn't be worth doing. I hope one day I'll inspire Molly to never give up on something she wants.
So this is to my fellow student mothers: go us!! And this is to all of the mothers out there, you gave your body and your soul to create your children- be proud of yourself and your achievements. You are amazing. We are woman, hear us roar ;)

Anywho(muststopblowingowntrumpet),
this is what revising looks like at my best friends' house..
It was a productive evening..

*Note we took over a hundred of these, expect to see more ;)
*Amrit and Hermione are missing :( sob