Blessings in disguise

Well today has been an interesting and exciting day. Let's start out with the morning. We went to Boise to get flowers for the planters, the rest of our garden needs, and potting soil. We are definitely ready for summer and to get things started. After that we went to the Olive Garden for a lunch together. Man do we love that place. After that we went to Cabela's so Madi could look at the fish...at least that was Mark's excuse! LOL!!! Anyways. We got home and Rachel checked her email. She had an email from a guy she worked with when she was active duty AF. He works at base Contracting and is a civilian. Well he sent her an email stating, "get back in College, and I can hire you." He said he had a school to work position working for him. He is in charge of a section at contracting and Rachel really loved working with him before. He said it would be 24 hours a week, making $2.00 more than she works not and 4 hours more than she works now. He said she needed to be enrolled in school part time. Rachel was very excited. As she was sitting there thinking about this, she began opening the mail. A letter from the VA (veteran's Affairs) had come and as she began reading it, she began to get louder and louder. The letter states that a new law was passed giving Veteran's who have the GI bill a better GI bill. Pretty much before her GI bill covered most of her tuition and none of her books. This new GI bill covers 100% of her tuition up to a 6 year college and $1000 in books for the year, in addition it pays for a housing allowance of an E5 w/dependants each month. This is roughly $1000 too! All she has to do is be enrolled in school for 2 courses a semester. This is excellent news. She has been offered a job where she can work part time and go to school, also she can get all her schooling paid for and given a housing allowance. So I guess the cliche, Everything happens for a reason is true!