by Hope
I promise I will get more financial posts in the works. Our lives are just a whirl right now with school starting back for Gymnast this week, the challenges of sharing a car with everyone going different directions and with Princess and Beauty moving to college this coming week.
Covering College
To be honest, I’m waiting to find out what/if Princess’ dad will contribute to her first semester’s college fees. That will determine if I have any “extra” this month. It is all due by August 30th.
I’ve been making regular payments since we got the total and am prepared to cover the cost in its entirety but am hoping he will step up. He says he is going to but won’t comment on how much or when.
A Whole New World
So if I can get through this next week with all the movement and without too many breakdowns, I will begin this next chapter of my life.
Gymnast and I are sharing a car. Princess will be carless. It’s going to get interesting.
Gymnast takes/will take the car to school most days so I will be stuck home. Which I am totally fine with.
However, right now the plan is that I will drive down and bring Princess home from college every couple of weeks. I’m hoping she can hitch a ride back with her roommate whose mom is requiring she come home on the weekends and does have a car. But if not, I must be prepared to return her as well.
Thankfully, her class schedule is really conducive to long weekends. And her job here at home is happy to have her work the weekends she is in town, so that’s good.
But I can tell the single car is going to cause some challenges…*just breathe
Hope is a resourceful, solutions-driven online business manager with over two decades of experience helping clients streamline operations, manage projects, and grow their businesses through digital marketing and technology.
But life has a way of rewriting your plans.
A year ago, Hope made the decision to move in with her aging parents full time – a season she wouldn’t trade, even as it came with its own financial and emotional weight. Earlier this year, she lost her mother, and is now walking the tender, disorienting path of grief while learning what “forward” looks like from here.
Hope came to the Blogging Away Debt community in 2015 as a single mom raising five foster and adoptive children. She’s written through job changes, financial setbacks, and the bittersweet transition to an empty nest. Her kids are finding their footing in the world now – and so is she.
Rooted in faith and fueled by the same perseverance she’s brought to every hard season, Hope is ready to face her finances with fresh eyes and an honest pen. She believes that clarity, courage, and community can change the trajectory of anyone’s story including her own.
She lives in Austin, TX with her dad, loves adventures with her dog Addie, and is figuring out, one step at a time, what this next chapter is meant to be.
