Back several years ago before I was a mom, I worked as a teacher.  The first days of school were always pretty crazy and interesting.  I got to meet all sorts of children and their parents.  And often times siblings and grandparents and aunts and uncles.  When someone I didn’t know came to pick up a child I would always verify who that person was.  It always amused me when the person would get upset that I was making sure they were supposed to take a certain child.  I had a lot of kids to keep track of and since no one had to wear name tags I couldn’t always remember every person I had ever met.  You would think people would appreciate that, but strangely many did not.

I don’t have very many regrets in life. Of course there are things I would do differently if given the chance but I don’t really regret the choices I have made. Sometimes I wish we had never moved to the area we lived in for a few years, but then I remember that we would have never been able to have Peanut without the help of the infertility specialists available in the area we lived in.

But, if I were to pick one thing I do regret it would be not going on to get my graduate degree after finishing my bachelor’s degree. I graduated with a degree in Elementary Education but without my master’s degree there isn’t much I can do. So many states require you have a master’s degree before you can even teach.

Several years after finishing my bachelor’s degree I went back to school to start working on my master’s. That was during the time when I was having a hard time getting pregnant. And when I did get pregnant it would end in miscarriage. So I stopped going to school. Temporarily of course.

I still haven’t gone back, thinking of doing it online, maybe earn a degree online would be a great idea for me. I would be able to work and earn a degree.

After high school I worked full time for one year before going to college.  Even though I had wanted to be a teacher my whole life I felt like I needed a year off to think it through.  Then I went to college to become an elementary education teacher.  When I finished college I got married and worked at a copy store.  Then I worked for a phone company and later worked as the director of a child care center.

We moved a little while later and I finally found a job as a pre-kindergarten teacher.  I decided to go back to school to work on my Master’s Degree.  I finished five classes.  Then I got pregnant and decided to wait before finishing.  Well, that was more than 3 years ago and I still haven’t gone back.  I really would like to be able to finish my degree online.

I was looking at online MS Instruction at Saint Xavier University today and checking out the programs.  This would really work well for me.  I work from home and am a stay at home mom.  It would be so much easier for me to do my work online than to have to arrange care for my daughter while I go back to school.

What about you?  If you need to finish your degree- what do you think about doing it online?  What are some pros and cons?