Good news!

I forgot to share some very exciting news: my mom got a full-time job as a professor at the university starting in the fall! She starts 2 days after my wedding, actually. Good timing, or what?!? She will get paid twice as much as she does now and she’ll have medical benefits. This is a real answer to prayer since with all the medications my dad is on (since he doesn’t have a pituitary gland anymore because of the tumour he had removed 7 years ago), they have been spending loads of money every month paying for his medications. Now at least some of that will be covered with the medical benefits, and my mom will also be making a decent wage, more than she has ever made in her whole life! So, we’re really happy with that news!

Technically, she will need to re-apply every year to renew the position, but she has spent the last few years in that department at the university getting to know everyone and proving herself working a bunch of part-time contracts. So, I am pretty confident that they will hire her back. She is talking about starting on her PhD in about a year so that a few years down the road she can have that. Tenure track position, here she comes! ;) I’m so proud of her.