On Monday, our son took a placement exam to get into college a year early. He's a bright kid, and is highly motivated to become a robotics engineer. He has worked so hard for this! He did well on the test, so all that's left is the SAT in June and he'd likely be heading to Vermont Technical College in September.
A few months ago, our daughter was accepted into the UnCollege Gap Year Program. It's an amazing opportunity! She has been busy readying herself to go, and taking on odd jobs to raise some of the funds, and we've been putting money aside each month, to help fill in the gap.
In the mean time, I've been working on building a way to help people overcome the up-front cost hurdle of green energy projects. I've made good progress, but need to learn a bit more in order to finish up the work-in-progress. With that in mind, I applied for the General Assembly Web Development Immersive program.
All in all, it's been a very exciting time for our family! Both kids heading off to their new adventures, me working to get Green Planet Heroes off the ground. My husband's job was going gangbusters.
We were just, just, just finally starting to claw our way out of the massive financial pit that was formed when we were both unemployed at the same time a few years back. It was a brutal time, when we were having some significant issues managing to afford that whole "eat every day" thing. I still have nightmares about it.
Which is why I'm crying right now.
Because my husband was laid off yesterday.