Should I or shouldn't I?

[Lobodeb]

How about having your son's birthday on a different day? Since he is such a little guy he won't know the difference.

I would, but a) we're having it at a hall and have already paid the deposit, b) his birthday was Jan. 2nd and the party isn't until Jan. 27th, so I really don't want to put it off until March, when this course ends and c) the course is full. But thanks anyway!

Lisa (kuhio98) thanks for posting that. Very inspiriational.

by the way what is your job now and what kind of boss do you have.

I'm a project coordinator for a national litigation consulting company. I'm a glorified meeting planner. My boss is actually very supportive of me doing this. As a matter of fact, she's encouraged me to check out various schools and told me what kinds of questions to ask. She's even written letters of recommendation for me for some of the schools I've applied to. She LOVES my baking.

...only other option is to come in an hour early and work an hour late to maybe make up the time

I'm on salary so that wouldn't make a difference.

Kim (catnapper) I wish you were here, we could take the class together! It would be so much fun!

Johanna (cataholic), the class is $800. My theory is that I would try this in an attempt to get a feel of what culinary school would be like. There are several hotels, restuarants and casinos here that pay pastry chefs more than what I make now. I'd rather spend this $800 for this course, than $5,000 for culinary school.

I also neglected to mention that I will still have 5 sick days if I burn all of my vaction time.

maybe you can take 7 paid days and 3 unpaid to keep a small bank for baby stuff?

Hmm, that's a possiblity!

Thanks for your suggestions, everyone. I still haven't made my decision yet. Maybe everyone can pray that they do another weekend class before next year!

[Lobodeb]

I just thought I would let you all know what I decided.

I decided to wait on the 2 week course for many reasons.

1) price
2) vacation time
3) I'm going to be starting a new job soon and I know I won't have that kind of time off with pay

But, what I did decide to do was take another cake decorating course offered by the same company. It's a 4 session course, once a week after work hours for much, much cheaper.

I'm going to register tonight.

Thanks to all who gave their opinion and helped me decide.

[Karen]

You're welcome, and of course we want pictures of your finals results when you do take the course ...

some Hugito pictures might hold us over in the mean time ...