The decision is made..

My husband has decided to reenlist. I'm both happy and scared. I love that my husband is a soldier. I'm so incredibly proud of him for his bravery and his service, yet I am terrified of another deployment. Don't get me wrong, I accept that he will probably go again and I'm okay with that for the most part, I married a soldier and I accept that duty, however accepting it is not the same as being happy about it. It's a sad, lonely life when your soldier is gone from home for a year and a half.

That all being said, I must say that I am very proud of my soldier and look forward to whatever God brings our way!

Wow..

We finally got some snow! A lot of it too! On Tuesday night we left our home to go spend some time with our friend on his birthday. We got our car stuck when we got off the interstate, got out of that jam, and got stuck again trying to get into our friends drive way. This should have clued us in and we should have headed home immediately. However the husband said he didn't drive all the way to Waynesville (like's it that far.. ) just to turn around and go home. So.. we spent about an hour at Chad's before leaving to go home. After 10 minutes of scraping snow and ice off our our car, we left and made it all the way to Hwy 133 exit before we had to turn around. There was a semi turned sideways in the road blocking our road to our house! Doug said that there was no way our car would make it up the hill if we went up Hwy 7. So we drove back to Waynesville to borrow a friends 4-wheel drive to make it home. Our car got stuck another 2x before we made it in their driveway! We finally made it home after about 3 1/2 hours of getting stuck and pushing cars in the snow.

For the record, my car is still stuck in the snow.

BRRRRR......

It is SOOOOOOO.... cold outside! Why can't we get some snow... without the below 0 temperatures? When it's this cold outside, it makes me miserable.

On a more positive note, we've been doing the Dave Ramsey budget in our household since the beginning of the month and 15 days into it I've paid off all credit card debt. We didn't have much as we pay it off pretty regularly but it feels good anyhow.

I was wrong!

After further research, I've found that my preconceived notions on the LPC program at Webster versus the MSW program at MSU were incorrect! MSU is WAY cheaper (almost half the price actually...)! MSU does offer afternoon and evening classes as well as some online! Although it's farther from home the cost difference more than makes up for the gas that will be spent driving. I've always found that MSW degrees are more marketable than LPC's. I must now take the GRE. Oh joy.

Joys of Education..

After talking with a good friend about our career options and education possibilities, I am more confused than ever. (thanks Holly..) I have no specific plans to work with the military as I want to work with children primarily, however I do not wish to close the door to working with the Federal government. My problem now is that I do not know which Master's program to enroll in!? The Masters in Counseling (LPC-licensed professional counselor) or the Masters in Clinical Social Work (LCSW). The federal government does not recognize LPC's and therefore hire LCSW for therapist positions. The LPC program is more "user-friendly" as it is closer to home, cost less and classes are held in the evening, so I'm leaning towards that one. I just don't want to spend all the money and find out that I should have gone the other route.

Oh.. the joys of education.

Where are you Mr. Snow?

Where's all the snow? Seriously, I'm tired of this weather... bring on the snow!