Today is already hard, and it's only 6:15 AM. H is super depressed. We had put together a tight budget, and then he got bad news about how the insurance is going to be so much worse next year, and how in the world can we budget to keep things together?

H says he needs to job search and start it sooner rather than later. Not only does being a teacher not pay great, but most teachers have to put in extra hours for grading and admin stuff, get held late by constant meetings, etc. So they work a lot more hours than it looks like from the surface, and I think that is doing H in. He said he doesn't mind the teaching or the kids; his issues are with all the other stuff.

I am worried and pretty sure H is clinically depressed due to the situation. I'm depressed and anxious about it too. He said he is going to start mailing contacts he has from past jobs and see if they know of anything, and God, I hope one of them can help, or we are going to lose the house. He has never had any luck with online job searches, so unless he finds something out there with personal connections that can help, it doesn't do him much good.