Do we have to be grown-ups?

You know we are putting everything into moving to California right now. We had to put it on hold for our adoption, but now there are more reasons to get going! Finding some specialists for Jax is at the top of the list.
The bad part is, daddy couldn't enroll back in school for spring, because it goes until June. If he gets a job before then (fingers crossed) he would have paid for school for nothing. I hate this because he missed fall semester with the adoption. When your our age and trying to get through college, its not easy. I don't feel old at all, but when it comes to finishing college, I feel ancient!
This has been a great lesson for us. We are going to make dang sure our boys know how important college is. We won't force them to go, but we'll make sure they know how much easier it is to just do it out of high school. Ray's and my parents didn't push college. Ray had rough high school years. Without getting into detail he had a lot going on at home. College wasn't even a thought!
I had high aspirations. I was going to be a doctor. My dad bought me med school textbooks he got at a yard sale, and I read those suckers cover to cover! I used to wrap up my dolls, and give them shots with my grandma's old broaches! When I got my CNA, and started working at the childrens hospital, it was my dream job! Kind of. I wanted to be a nurse, but never finished that degree. Jax stopped me dead in my tracks! Medicine has always been my passion, and I fully intend to finish my nursing degree, just to say I have it. Even if I never work again. Put my knowledge against any veteran nurse, and I guarantee I'd hold my own! But my parents didn't have a lot of money, and they never instilled in my head how important it was. So drill team took over my high school years and all I cared about was dance!
I think of how old we are I seriously hyperventilate about daddy still finishing college. Is he going to be able to get a great job, when he will be older than most other applicants?
I don't want to live paycheck to paycheck forever!
Mondo already knows how important college is, and we are working hard with him because he is in Junior high now, and he's not the greatest student. We are also working hard at getting money put away for each of the boys. It won't be much, but it will be more than me and daddy had!

And Arina is a great tutor if he needs extra help studying!