by Hope
I’m positive most of the BAD followers slapped their foreheads and cringed after they learn that I had prioritized serving to Princess along with her senior yr of school. I do know, I do know.
However I’ve too. I’ve to assist her.
A little bit again story
When Princess began faculty, I informed her, I’d cowl her first yr after which she was on her personal. Now for those who aren’t a Georgia resident, you could not know that they’ve two grant packages known as Hope and Zell Miller. They’re a BIG motive why we moved right here versus different states after we moved. Primarily, if a pupil graduates from a Georgia highschool, even homeschooled, and maintains a sure GPA, the grant covers their tuitions for larger schooling and/or commerce colleges. I wished all the children to have the chance to additional their schooling with out debt. These grants had been key to that as a single mother of 5 children.
So we did it. First yr, I paid for residing bills, books, and even offered spending cash. (She contributed by saving from the time she began working at 15.)
Since then, she’s coated all prices alone. All of them! And it has been so laborious for her. And so inspiring to look at. I’m in complete awe of her. (My dad says she will get her grit and drive from me, however she is so, a lot extra decided and dedicated than I feel I ever was.)
Housing Debacle
One of many greatest challenges has been housing. She’s been residing in a 5×5 for the final two years. 5 rooms, 5 roommates. And none of them has to work or actually be accountable. Princess will get up each AM and heads to work, then college, after which nights and weekends operating an on campus funding membership. I imply, she is killing it. However with all her roommates residing the glamorized faculty expertise with events and such this yr has been very, very powerful, no quiet to sleep or research, and many others.. You get the image. (I’m not knocking her roommates, she simply wants a distinct setting.)
So this yr, she was going to maneuver out. And lengthy story brief, her two roommate choices fell by means of. Now she wants to maneuver, doesn’t have a spot to maneuver too, and is stress to no finish as a result of residing in ATL solo is pricey. And with right this moment’s world, a random roommate, effectively, neither of us is comfy with that.
Place to Assist
Fortunately, I’m within the place to assist. So we went residence buying collectively a few weeks in the past earlier than she flew out to begin her summer time internship. And I’ve dedicated to paying the distinction from what she paid the final two years and the brand new place till she graduates subsequent Might. (She’s going to graduate along with her Bachelors earlier than she turns 21 years previous!)
She’s going to get out of school with $0 in debt. And she or he is aware of the worth of hardwork and cash. I simply need to make this final yr a bit of bit simpler on her. As soon as we get all the pieces settled, I’ll fill in additional particulars on what that’s going to appear to be financially.
Hope is a inventive, solutions-focused enterprise supervisor serving to purchasers develop their enterprise and work extra effectively by leveraging experience in undertaking administration, digital advertising, & tech options. She’s lately develop into an empty nester as her 5 foster/adoptive children have unfold their wings. She lives along with her 5 canine in a small city in NE Georgia and prefers the mountains to the seashores any day. She struggles with the journey bug and is doing her finest to assist every of her children as their end education and develop into impartial (however it’s laborious!) She has run her personal consulting firm for nearly twenty years! Hope started sharing her journey with the BAD group within the Spring of 2015 and looks like she has lastly in a spot to essentially give attention to making clever monetary selections.
