Sometime life gets complicated and you have to work through the hard times as well as the easy. Things are changing in our lives and it's for the better of our family.
It all started when I was still pregnant with Zachary. Louis came home one day and told me that he wanted to go back to school for Electrical Engineering. He realized that he wants more kids in the future (we're thinking 2-3 more) but the job he has now just isn't going to make that possible. It also wouldn't leave any room for us to get a house either, which we want to do in the future. I was fully supportive of his decision and am happy to know that he is looking out for his family. He starting taking classes in the spring of this year at Everett Community College. He will take classes to get a transfer degree and then go to the University Of Washington.
We made plans to move into my parent's house when our lease is up at the end of August. That way we can save money while Louis is in School and we can get into a better neighborhood to raise our boy. It's about a 40 minute drive from their house to ECC but that was okay because we didn't expect him to be going there for very long before attending the UW in Bothell, which is closer to my parent's house. We had this whole plan in motion and my parent's were starting to clear out some rooms for us. Then, we got information that changed everything.
Louis and I went to meet with a counselor at ECC to plan out a schedule for the classes needed to transfer. As it turns out, Louis will finish with the classes there in the fall of 2017. We weren't expecting it to take that long, but he is only doing school part time because he works full time. If he did school full time it wouldn't take as long, but we just can't do that. We looked into our options for classes at Cascadia Community College, but found that they didn't have all evening classes for their transfer degrees. Louis works until 2 pm so an afternoon class wasn't going to work. We thought for a few weeks about what we were going to do.
We would have two options if we still decided to live with my parents and both were not great.
Option 1: Louis travels to Everett from Woodinville for work and then back home, returning back to Everett in the evening for classes. This would not only have a lot of wasted driving time, but also use a lot of money for gas because he would be driving about 90 miles a day.
Option 2: Louis would go straight to the library at ECC after work. He would have a lot of time to study and do school work. The down side? Zachary and I would never see him. He would be gone from 4:30 in the morning until about 10:00 at night. He would still have to do school work on the weekends so Zach and I would basically be on our own every week.
We decided that we aren't going to do either of those. We are going to stay in Everett for now because it is the most logical choice for our family. We still hope to find a place by the end of August, but we are also not rushing it. We can always rent month to month until we find another place in a better location. We have looked into buying a house or condo, but just don't want to do it while Louis is in school. So, for now, we are going to keep renting.
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