And It All Comes Down To This...Or Does It?

In a few short days (Feb. 16th, to be exact), Nicholas will officially start his last semester of grad school. As we approach that day I know we are both filled with so many different emotions: anxiety, excitement, stress, sadness, and hope. When all is said and done, Nicholas will have spent 3 years of his life and our relationship (2 years of our married life) at Rhode Island School of Design. This final semester could end up being one of the toughest as everything he has done thus far will culminate in his thesis paper and thesis show. He will have to reconcile many things and produce a lot of "finished" work. (A lot of his work over the past few years has been experimentation working toward "finished" work.)

That being said, we are approaching another time when Nicholas will be spending long hours at school and in the library. We will continue to struggle with balancing school and our life together. At the same time, we will be making plans for our future. In the coming months we will be making more "life decisions." (Is there ever a time in our lives when we won't be making life decisions?) We will be deciding where the next stop on our path is and how we are going to get there. This will be an especially hard decision because it will be based mostly on what is best for both of us, not because of grad school, and probably only secondarily because of jobs. Keep us in your thoughts and prayers as we enter this spring semester, which I am sure will lead to many, many blog postings!