Hi, mompriest. I'm doing well. Had my first meeting today with my spiritual director. It was wonderful. I'm so grateful to have a matriarch of sorts who can help me sift through all of this. How did you manage seminary with such young children? Mine are 2 and 4 and I lack vision...
In many ways seminary with little kids is easier than say middle schoolers. (Middle school aged kids need lots of supervision to help them make wise choices). Our daughter was in second grade and our son was three when I started seminary. The first year I commuted, which meant long days for everyone. (Daughter went to before and after school care, son was at a home daycare center, both from about 7:30am until 5:30pm)...The next year we moved to the seminary and lived in married student housing. This was not necessary, but for us it meant I was with the kids until 8:30 when they caught the bus (or went to preschool) and I was home when they got home at 3:30. So. we had more time together. Then we did all our usual after school stuff, had dinner as a family, etc. Once the kids were in bed at 7:30pm I'd leave and go to my study cubicle and study like mad until 10:30. (Plus some study time during the day while they were at school). Then I'd come home and have ice cream and watch Jay Leno or Letterman with my husband ("our time")...
Basically, you just need to find a way to balance the needs of the family with course work and study time. I know a lot of moms who went to seminary on the five year plan, part time, so they could be with kids and family. I also know moms who found internet courses combined with weekend commuter classes...(this was in Southern California with no near by Episcopal Seminary, I think CDSP offered the commuter course??)...
Finding vision comes with the exploration and conversation with others who are (or have) done this.
i thank you God for this most amazingday: for the leaping greenly spirits of treesand a blue true dream of sky; and for everythingwhich is natural which is infinite which is yes(i who have died am alive again today,and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birthday of life and love and wings: and of the gaygreat happening illimitably earth)how should tasting touching hearing seeingbreathing any-lifted from the noof all nothing-human merely beingdoubt unimaginable You?(now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened)- e.e. cummings
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Hi, mompriest. I'm doing well. Had my first meeting today with my spiritual director. It was wonderful. I'm so grateful to have a matriarch of sorts who can help me sift through all of this. How did you manage seminary with such young children? Mine are 2 and 4 and I lack vision...
In many ways seminary with little kids is easier than say middle schoolers. (Middle school aged kids need lots of supervision to help them make wise choices). Our daughter was in second grade and our son was three when I started seminary. The first year I commuted, which meant long days for everyone. (Daughter went to before and after school care, son was at a home daycare center, both from about 7:30am until 5:30pm)...The next year we moved to the seminary and lived in married student housing. This was not necessary, but for us it meant I was with the kids until 8:30 when they caught the bus (or went to preschool) and I was home when they got home at 3:30. So. we had more time together. Then we did all our usual after school stuff, had dinner as a family, etc. Once the kids were in bed at 7:30pm I'd leave and go to my study cubicle and study like mad until 10:30. (Plus some study time during the day while they were at school). Then I'd come home and have ice cream and watch Jay Leno or Letterman with my husband ("our time")...
Basically, you just need to find a way to balance the needs of the family with course work and study time. I know a lot of moms who went to seminary on the five year plan, part time, so they could be with kids and family. I also know moms who found internet courses combined with weekend commuter classes...(this was in Southern California with no near by Episcopal Seminary, I think CDSP offered the commuter course??)...
Finding vision comes with the exploration and conversation with others who are (or have) done this.
Glad you are seeing a spiritual director!
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