Family stuff
Jun. 18th, 2013 06:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
valarltdIs there a word for proud yet heartbroken?
We can't afford college. Chris got next to nothing in financial aid. Last year, we made decent money. This year has been...difficult.
Today, we talked to three military recruiters.
He's looking at the Army, the Air Force and the Navy.
I'm proud of him, terrified for him, and heartbroken that he has to do this.
I'm having class issues with it, just to top things off. It's a reminder how far out of the middle class we are sliding, how hard the corporate interests are working to destroy the middle class. It's knowing that we're hanging on with our fingernails. My kids should be able to go to college, but there is nothing there for them to do it on.
My son is a man. And he has made a man's decision knowing the realities of it.
This makes me proud of him to no end.
Now excuse me, I think I'm going to go cry.
We can't afford college. Chris got next to nothing in financial aid. Last year, we made decent money. This year has been...difficult.
Today, we talked to three military recruiters.
He's looking at the Army, the Air Force and the Navy.
I'm proud of him, terrified for him, and heartbroken that he has to do this.
I'm having class issues with it, just to top things off. It's a reminder how far out of the middle class we are sliding, how hard the corporate interests are working to destroy the middle class. It's knowing that we're hanging on with our fingernails. My kids should be able to go to college, but there is nothing there for them to do it on.
My son is a man. And he has made a man's decision knowing the realities of it.
This makes me proud of him to no end.
Now excuse me, I think I'm going to go cry.
