Saturday, October 27, 2012

IT'S OFFICIAL!!!

We are moving!!!  HR and I have made the decision to take a blind leap of Faith and accept an offer of admissions for me to attend Texas A&M University-Kingsville.  I will be a full-time graduate student and semi-stay-at-home-mom.  The program requires me to take 12-15 hours a semester, in addition to working in the clinic.

It's definitely a shift in our original game plan.  Besides hating teaching, HR went back to oilfield work to earn more money to pay down some debt.  Attending school full-time will mean only HR will support us; therefore we will not have the extra money we expected.  Two-year sacrifice...long-term investment.

I was worried about Caiden having to move schools again.  Last year I moved him from the school he attended with his closest cousins and the same classmates he had for 3 years, he cried occasionally for almost a year after.   When I threw the idea at him I expected him to get emotional or pout.  Here is how it went:

                Me: Caiden, how would you feel about moving again?
                Cade: Why mom?
                Me: I want to finish school and they want me too, but it's a little far from here.
                Cade: Oh, ok.  Well tell me the day before so I can say goodbye to my friends.  

I had always intended to apply, but I never expected to be accepted so quickly.  I ONLY applied to Kingsville because it is the only school with a Spring start.   Each admitting season the university reviews roughly 300 applications and accepts a mere 12-15 students.  Instead, I expected I'd be busy filling out applications during the month of March for Fall 2013.

Now I have two months to find childcare, a place to live, someone to rent our home, etc... I am hoping to get better at blogging since I will have some extra free time on my hands, not to mention I will be away from some of Caiden, Trey and Ryan's biggest fans....

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