So for the past 2 1/2 years, I have had a full time job and a part-time job working 60+ hours a week(well 60 one week, 72 the next) as a nurse. I originally did this to pay off debt acquired from a much needed divorce-I took the debt so we could avoid lawyers and just get divorced. Then my lovely fiance and I started dating and I found out that he was accepted in nursing school-a dream of his for 17 years. To assist his dream (though he works 30 hours a week while full time in school), I kept two jobs. Well the goal has always been for me to quit one when we got to spring of 2012. Two jobs have enabled us to pay cash for his entire schooling (over $13,000) as well as pay off debt-something we have both worked so hard to do.
So last night, due to a crazy scheduling issue, we have decided that I am going to finally quit my part-time job. I am excited but scared because all the extra money has been going to a fabulous planned destination wedding for us and his two kids in Vegas in August. Although we have less than a few thousand left to save, it does make me apprehensive. However, last night as I was crying a bit, my honey looked at me and said "what is more important-this day in Vegas or us being together and your body finally resting?" I have to say I thought about it all and this morning I am so thankful that he is agreeable to me quitting the second job a few months early. I do have a chronic health condition that has required a few hospitalizations in the past two years so the fact that he has my health as foremost makes me happy.
So though it makes me nervous and we have agreed to hold off booking everything for the next two months, today I am thankful that we are not being overwhelmed by thoughts of a big crazy wedding day. Instead I feel that we are starting this off with good financial sense as well as relationship sense.