Back and Forth

We've been back and forth on this the whole month. As of right now we are packing and moving to Fort Worth. We decided he can always go back and get a PhD, but if he works for a while we'll be better off financially. We feel we had 2 good choices and either one would work out for us, but for now we'll go make money instead of getting school debt.


I have lots of pictures of our trip to Utah, but they will have to wait since we plan on moving Tuesday (although who knows, that could change again.)

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PhD or no PhD that is the question.
  Just so you won't be confused if we go another route here's the deal. He is in the program and he has the assistantship, but now the question is does he really want to do it. We are told it is an extremely difficult program. I know Jake could do it but he isn't sure if he will like it. He likes financial planning and would enjoy teaching it but the main thing a professor does is research, research, research. He doesn't know if he'll like research.
   We are back and forth on this, hopefully we'll reach a decision soon! (since we would have to find a place to live and move if we chose to go to Fort Worth.)

Changes

When we got a new stake president last year he told us about a vision he had. In the vision there were 3 vines that started growing from his backyard and kept going...those vines represented 3 groups of people. The first one was the people who would join the church here in Lubbock. The second group was the people who had fallen away and would come back to the church. The third was the group of people who would move to Lubbock to help build the church. The 3 vines will help create a second stake in Lubbock. I believe we are in the third group and the vine has a hold of us....


    Jake graduates in 16 days. He has a job lined up at Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth, Texas. We have been searching for apartments and packing a few things....


  Jake talked with the professors over the financial planning PhD program yesterday. By some miracle they told him not only would he get in the program, he would also get an assistantship. That means they will pretty much pay for him to go to school (although it's not much) and he'll teach a few classes. Financial planning is something Jake has always been interested in. I think Texas Tech is the only school in the country that has a PhD in financial planning. I am excited for Jake to have the chance to do something he really likes. I am excited that we don't have to move again right now, that we don't have to leave our friends, that Kaylee can finish preschool here.

     I am not excited for 4 more years of school, being poor college students, or all the fun things that come with it like medicaid. We both feel good about this though. I'd rather him get it done now, while we are here and while the kids are still young. It is a sudden change...my emotions are mixed.