Feeling a bit bored?

[bright sparks]

I have been attending night school to get my grade 12 as I graduated high school in the UK which is at a Grade 11 equivalency so I need to upgrade in order to meet my UNI admission requirements, and honestly it makes a big difference to my day. I am undeniably more tired being out twice a week at nights until late. I finish daycare at 5:15 and have 30 minutes before I have to leave the house to be at night school on time and am there until 9:30 and not home until at least 10, but the very next day I feel like I am functioning on all cylinders. Unfortunately it tends to be short lived so I make the most of it. I feel less fatigued and more enthusiastic about my job although nothing really changes. I finished my last course in June and 2 weeks after completion I was back to feeling like a basket case lol I'm not sure if there is any way around this other than the fact that long term, this is not where I see myself permanently.

In the meantime though, I have dropped a day. Come September (I have kids going into JK), all my families are Mon-Thurs and on the Friday I will be doing a combination of self-study courses, again to get my Grade 12 done, volunteer work hopefully with youth within the LGBTQ... community, and also for self-care. Time for me is something that has never existed and I am that caregiver who burns out on average at the moment every 8 weeks because I am busy caring for everyone else and always give 100%, all of the time. To prevent this I now turn every long weekend into a 4 or 5 day weekend so I can immerse myself in being ME as an individual, versus me who has the roles of being a mother, wife and daycare provider. I find it helps me to maintain consistent exceptional care for my daycare children when I put THAT "hat" on.