You know you are a College-Mom when...

1. Your laundry is piled to the ceiling AND you don't care because you figure it will get done during Thanksgiving Break.


2.Binder paper and #2's are the current floor covering of choice.

3.You buy stock in Tuna Helper and bemoan the days when you had the time to prepare a lovely meal for your family.

4.The dog does not get fed until Dad gets home at night.

5.The only numbers in your head have to do with functions, slopes, and y-intercepts and you can't remember how old your six year old is...was?

6.You wish your parents would have allowed you to go to college.

7.Your kids are watching mom in school and think that homework is just a normal part of life.

8.Your kids think that mom disappearing at odd hours in the evening to go study is normal.

9.You seriously consider living in a paper state so that you can minimize clean-up.

10.You thank God for your children, because they qualify you to receive financial assistance for your tuition.

11.You never thought you would be more excited over a school schedule being posted.

12.You don't have a life, and never, EVER watch television anymore.

13.You consider telepathy so at least your class material could be transported to your brain, and then have time to devote to your kids.

14.Your husband feels like a Lone Ranger.

15.You hope you look back and are proud of yourself for having accomplished something that many thought you could not do.

16.You stalk the travel agent whose store-front window promises wonderful, serene beach getaways and have started planning for the vacation of a lifetime as a graduation present to yourself.

17.You try not to talk about being in school to too many people because if they haven't done it with kids and a family, they really don't understand just how much of a juggling act it is.

18.You long for the day when you hold a real job and reci1. Your laundry is piled to the ceiling AND you don't care because you figure it will get done during Thanksgiving Break.
compensation for the long hours you are putting in now.

19.You think that you might actually have more time once you start working.

20.You fall into bed, exhausted, at the end of every day thanking God that "He who calls, also equips." And then do the insanity all over again tomorrow.