OMG, I can't believe it. H finally got a job teaching as a professor in industrial engineering at a 4 year university. It is a 1 year visiting professorship, but he was told those usually turn to associate professorships on the tenure track at this university if you do a good job. We don't know many details, what courses he will teach, the health insurance benefits (hopefully they will be better than our current sucky insurance).

He will start in January, for the spring semester, so he is going to be leaving his high school pretty soon. The new job will have a substantial pay raise. We will not be rich with this new job, but we won't be down to the penny on mortgage, grocery, medical bills, and hopefully, will have the money to fix a broken car or air conditioning problem, actually get to eat out for birthdays or our anniversary.

It has been a very long time since we've had good news, particularly pertaining to H's job.