Good News: Mr. Wonderful's Scholarship!

Dear Lovely Readers,

I am sooo excited to announce that Mr. Wonderful is the recipient of a scholarship for this year as he continues to embark on college at the tender age of 37!

He applied for a national scholarship particularly for returning adults, and we just learned he was selected!!!

It has been quite a road, and this turn of events is one for which we are more than grateful, this wonderful man just continues to blaze some amazing trails!

I told him this is just the beginning of many more good things to come. :)

Thanks for all your fabulous encouragement along the way...it seems that I was just blogging about his minor bumps in applying as an adult, (try getting your high school transcripts from the dark ages before computers...they arrived many moons and stares into the mailbox later, a copy of the original with handwritten grades!)

and suddenly he already has several classes and a 4.0, the scholarship on top of our benefits... watch out world! My Mr. Wonderful is coming to get you!

And now, back to my regularly scheduled bubble bath and shiraz...

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Back To School!!! Summer School, for starters!

Have I *mentioned* that Mr. Wonderful

got accepted into University of Miami?????

(where I earned my master's in creative writing?)

He is now a... 'Cane!!!

Have I mentioned that we went and got him registered for summer classes??????

Have I mentioned how happy we are about this????

For beautiful vintage postcards of the campus,

click here.... and Enjoy!!!

patience, my dear! on breathing, healing, and going back to school

Dear Kind Readers,

Mr. Wonderful is going back to school. The road has been a bit bumpy, but he is hanging in there. I thought for sure this would be a brilliant idea, because imhyao, he is brilliant, an absolute genius for sure. Studying his passions in a university environment would be something he would enjoy, I was certain. He wants to do weather and environmental research, and basically advise the weather announcers what is going to happen. He is all about weather and science, marine, tornadoes, you name it. The above images make sense to him, and fascinate him. Just having the conversations with professionals and experts is an experience I want him to have. The degree would just be the paper work to open doors in order to do what he loves...

He is a true renaissance person: sciences (atmospheric, earth, etc), history, politics, photography, writing, you name it. After we got together, I thought, I WANT him to have the opportunity I had in going to college. (He went to the Coast Guard right after high school, then worked, then went to theology school, then worked, then volunteered, and worked, gave his all to a church, all at the same time, you get the idea.)

He was able to visualize going back to school after some months, and was finally willing to apply and take time off work for going back to school at age 36. I also have a work benefit for spouses to go to school, with a substantial chunk of tuition covered.

Part of the reason I returned to Miami, with him in tow :), was for him to go back to school.

As I say, there has been a bump or two in the road. And I love him so much, and it is hard to see any bumps. We did not sign up for any more bumps. So basically, it has taken longer to get the process going than we expected. I am afraid he has gotten a bit taken aback with it all.

I do think things have unfolded a certain way for a purpose, and I have been hoping to get him to de-stress along the way and he has. That has been very important for his health! Just breathing and dreaming was his job, I told him. For the first time in his life, after giving more than was imaginable his whole life, I just wanted this childhood love/love of my life- of mine to breathe and heal from our unbelievable life stories.

This week we will learn more, and he will be on his way, I project. Any support you want to send him on his way back to school, now entering late thirties, and rethinking all our "masculine" and "marital" stereotypes, would be greatly appreciated!!!!!

We have basically said screw it to all the "shoulds" of everyone else's, and decided to live life on our own terms from here on out, and we just need the universe to catch up, on his school entry front.... but again, I know the timing has been right, and just love him so much and do not want the timing being different than expected to get him down.

I told him, yes, it's a pain, and anything worth doing is not so easy or everyone would do it. This process is not easy, but worth doing, we both agree. We are on the way, just doing things our own way, in our own timing. There is no rush, I keep saying to him, we have the rest of our lives, and it is not about pressure. The trip when I first saw him two years ago, and we knew we'd get married, we agreed, there had been "enough bullshit to date."

Now, on to the bliss................