Last Month of School

I have a large calendar on my wall. Each day is marked with the homework and stuff I need to do. I keep looking at it thinking, three more weeks of classes and one week for finals and I'm done! Well, until next fall anyways.
I'm working on a second bachelors. I'm crazy I know. But, during a mission, I realized that my first degree in Elementary Ed. wasn't for me. I realized I was doing it to make my mom happy. And it wouldn't make me happy to do that. So I went back to school. At first I planned on working on a masters in library science. However, I realized that once again I would be limited to only one option as a career with all that time gone. (And that i was paying an arm and a leg more than necessary.) So I switched to a 2nd bachelors in Family Finance. There's a list of jobs I can do with that! If you really must know you can read through the small print!
Family Finance Emphasis. Majors choosing this emphasis will be prepared for careers in financial counseling, advising, and education. Coursework focuses
on the financial decisions that individuals and families face relating to insurance, investing, credit, budgeting, and home ownership. Students will complete an
off-campus practicum and a Financial Counseling practicum at the Family Life Center on campus. At the Family Life Center, students will encounter various
types of financial experiences, including new home buyer counseling sessions and workshops, as well as financial problems related to credit and budgeting. The
Family Life Center’s housing and financial counseling services are approved by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and provide
counseling and education to the community. Employment opportunities include consumer credit counseling services, credit unions, the armed forces, corporate
employee assistance programs, employee benefits counseling firms, college financial aid offices, bank loan offices, hospitals, corporate credit offices, bankruptcy
courts, community housing programs, Federal Home Administration, Housing and Urban Development, personal banker, mortgage loan officer, credit
counselor, financial counselor or educator, consumer relations coordinator, military financial educator, debt collections coordinator, credit investigator, fraud
detective, insurance broker, stockbroker, and financial planner. 
Students in the Family, Consumer, and Human Development major receive the necessary preparation for graduate study in a family, consumer, and human
development-related field.

And so, I've been toiling away for a whole semester starting this new bachelors. I'm not regretting it. Even if I don't end up getting the second degree before having a family, I'll still be able to apply the things I've been learning to my family.
Ian is still trying to figure out what he'd like to do. He's working on his generals and getting used to school life again after a mission. I still don't think he'll be fully prepared to be married, work, and go to school. We'll have to work on balancing all of it. I've talked him into taking a class called Balancing Work and Family, next fall. Hopefully it will help. :)