Our ten year plan is coming to a conclusion

Day 997 of 1000

Ten years ago, when we restarted our homeschool, we made a plan to get Kelly through college by 2014 followed by Christian in 2016.  We did it two year early because Christian finished two years early than our plan.  I only thought about it about once per year when I made the yearly plan for the next year’s homeschool and bought the books from Sonlight.  The plan was completely forgotten while we did the work of homeschooling. Now that we are at the end, it has dawned on me that we have not given much thought to what comes next.  Of course, I have my work, mortgage, and retirement to consider, but those are continuing things that require thought and readjustment on a regular basis when I change jobs, move, run into an unexpected expense, etc.  We have goals in all that, but they are just going to be part of life until I die, so I planning for that kind of thing is just part of the landscape.

Now though, Lorena and I have to figure out what we want to do next.  Does Lorena want to finish her degree or start a business or do both?  Do we want to live in Portland or Phoenix or Prescott or stay where we are? There are competing interests in all this.  The kids are both going off to graduate school on the west coast. We would like to be near them so we could see them on a very regular basis, but they are at the age to start making their own way without too much interference from us.  Are we thinking of moving just so we can be by them? Maybe.  But is that bad?  Maybe, maybe not. I thought life was going to get less complicated at this point, but it looks like I am wrong.

Betty Blonde #115 – 12/24/2008

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