To celebrate or not...

I received my grades for the Fall Semester and my GPA was a 4.0. I got five As in the five courses that I took.

I am overjoyed in many ways, and although I would never want to sound boastful I am very proud of this accomplishment. My second semester at Syracuse University I got a 4.0 as well, and this has made me realize that my mind is still what it once was and that I have not fried my brain as my mother has accused me of doing.(More on that in another post.)
If the UMB had accepted me as a degree student I would be sitting back congratulating myself looking forward to writing many blogs full of words of encouragement for other single moms in college, but instead I am anxious dreading the impending doom that the Spring Semester will bring.

Syracuse has yet to get back to me regarding the promised agreement they mentioned to the admissions counselor at UMB, one that might allow me to obtain my transcript and thus be admitted to UMB. I am ineligible for any type of financial aid as a non-degree student and don't know how I will ever afford to enroll in the Spring otherwise. If I am not in school my kids will lose their daycare slot, which will be quite devastating to all involved parties. Recently they were home with me over the holidays and it was so very difficult for all of us. They were bored out of their wits and I could not accomplish a blessed thing.
There is not much that I can do now but await this student debt management account manager named Ruth's phone call. I wish that I was celebrating instead!