Back to school again

This week I started a an online class with BYU-I. It's only one class, but it's the first real class I've taken in a while, and I'm a tad nervous. I'm sure everything will be fine, it'll just take some good time management, which is something that I have a history of struggling with in the past. Good thing the past doesn't always predict the future. This class is starting less than three weeks before we get our new house, one month before the kids get out of school for the summer, and just barely after I received a new calling as Primary chorister (which I'm also a little bit nervous about, as well as excited.) Life is changing very rapidly.
The class that I'm taking is titled The Eternal Family. Interestingly enough, I've attempted to take this class on two other occasions and ended up dropping it both times because I was overwhelmed by other things going on in life. Hopefully this time I'll be able to stick it out. No, let me rephrase that. This time I will be able to stick it out. I have really been working on how I phrase things.

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