We are only two weeks into school and already this semester is going by smoothly. It's almost too good to be true. Ben and I have had a couple of good experiences these last two weeks and since our camera died all we have is stories to post.
Ben and I were both really stressed out about how we were going to make it through this semester because we have to pay our bills, our doctor visits, we have to pay for the baby delivery in May, and we have to pay for my summer school tuition with fees and state boards exam and fees. On top of all that Ben had to cut back on his hours this semester because his school schedule won't let him work as often as he could last semester and with two days of clinicals and two days of lab I can't pick up more shifts either. We went through our budget over and over and kept coming up short. I didn't think we would make it through this semester at all until three days before school started. I went and checked my email one afternoon after Ben had left for work and got an email from a lady that I won a scholarship. I thought it was junk email or something like that. I almost deleted it, but just before I did I remembered that a few months earlier my mom helped me fill out a scholarship for school and I completely forgot about it. Ben and I went into the school and that's where the scholarship came from. I wasn't expecting to get anything, like I said I completely forgot about it, but we won it and it is plenty to help us get through summer semester. I was so excited, I called my mom to tell her we won and to thank her for helping me get everything together for it and she said, "It's what you get for paying your tithing".
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That's so awesome - when we were visiting your mom told us about that. You're right, it's because of tithing. I've heard so many stories about how the budget would never work out on paper but if you're living right, it all works out. :)
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