What a great success story! Congratulations to your wife and you!
I think higher education is over-rated in many instances. For instance, we now find ourselves in an economic situation due in large part by graduates of Yale and Harvard
I used to have coffee every morning in my old hometown in Nebraska with the same guys, same seat, same time, every day. Of the 8 or 9 who showed up, only one had a college education. He was a bachelor school teacher and our "token liberal" in the group. One morning, he went on a tirade about how college educated folks were superior to non-college educated people. Smarter, richer, blah, blah, blah. I pointed out that every one at the table was self-employed (mostly agriculture) and probably had more money in one checking account than his net worth. On top of that, we paid twice as much in social security than he did and bought our own health insurance. I got him so mad, the veins in his neck started to bulge. We had discovered a new pastime, "let's "red vein" Vern". Hours and hours of fun at no cost
WyoBob