I’ve always been so amazed and impressed by wife.
- But the fact that she is going back to school to get her Master’s degree is pretty impressive indeed.
This is on top of working full time and being a mother to our two kids. Like me, she works full time inside the commercial HVAC of an office building. We’re both lucky to be working in fields that we enjoy. For her to go where she wants to go with her career, it took grad school. Since her company is paying for it and we live in a university town, it seemed like a no brainer. But we also knew that this sort of commitment would come with a lot of change. I was certainly willing to do whatever I could do in order to support my wife’s goals. To that end, I’m doing more around the central air conditioning of the house to free my wife up more. That means doing the shopping, most of the cooking, the laundry and all of that. The kids have even jumped in by getting rides to after school stuff and being better about picking up after themselves. Yet, we faced a challenge right away when it came to having a quiet place to study for my wife. We all did our best to keep it down but it’s not like we live in a library. So we ended up clearing out the mud room at the end of the house. I put in a desk and even had the HVAC company come out. They installed a ductless heat pump for heating and cooling in the mud room. The fact that it’s all the way on the other end of the house and sealed off from the noise made a big difference.