Probably Pointless Rambling

This has been one of the hardest things our family has ever gone through. Our almost divorce last year was close, but we all stayed together.  Here I am, 1400 miles away learning to be a teacher. My family is left in Olympia - packing the house, selling and giving away what we don't need and doing it with 2 little ones that miss mommy and feel like their lives are being uprooted. (Note: they are). I know that Katie feels the same way, but being a grown up and all sobbing every night is frowned upon.  Say what you will about "adventure" in many ways this sucks. I'm going to enter a classroom of underperforming 6th graders with 5 weeks of training.  We're going to try and live on a teacher's salary (plus a bit) when we were just living on a banker's salary.  Our children will go to public school in one of the lowest performing states in the country.  My beautiful wife, who has made a career of taking care of our home and family and teaching our children may be going back to school to teach someone else's children. I could have done this at home, quit my job, gone back to school, lived on a pittance and not had to navigate the systems of a new state. I have no answers and this blog really will have no conclusion, except to say that I'm one of the luckiest women in the world. I think most families would have never given up everything just to let me pursue a dream. Heck even Ramona's father went back to working at a grocery store.  Many times when you break a bone, it grows back stronger. So, here's to a full body cast.