I broke the law…
August 3rd, 2010
Tonight, I had a dinner meeting with our homeschool board and we were eating at a place I’d never been. I had planned on leaving at 7, but time got away and I stayed until 8:20. When I realized what time it was, I said “I have to go,” and left quickly. I didn’t even think about the bill until I got home. So unless one of the girls picked up my bill, I have to make a trip into town tomorrow to settle up a bill for $4.85 lol.
For what it’s worth, it was really good.
Life…
August 1st, 2010
I have been MIA. Where have I been…
visiting with family
planning a church event
preparing for the upcoming homeschool year
at meetings
sweating ridiculously because of this incessant heat
spending time with Sarah before she returns to college
watching Kelly leave for a long vacation
getting ready for Sunday School
not cleaning my house like I should.
And other things. But those things have taken up the free time I thought I had… lol. 
Suzy Homemaker and Sally Typo: Yes & No… well kind of.
July 30th, 2010
So I’m not Suzy Homemaker, big deal, right? Well, let me just say I’m not even Suzy’s cousin’s best friend’s brother’s secretary. I am that bad.
My house has dust. We live across from a corn field and it’s annoying to say the least. My family leaves their shoes in the floor and their dishes in the sink. Sometimes I make my bed, but hardly ever put the pretty pillows on it. We always need to sweep and I hate doing laundry.
I can bake and cook, but that’s the extent of my homemaker skills. My house is not decorated pretty because I suck at coordinating things. My friend throws country stuff on the her walls and it looks beautiful…the only thing we have in common is the dust. Her dust looks like a country accent though…lol.
But I’m even worse with punctuation marks and correct grammar order. I use the elipsis (…) way to often, sometimes misspell things (especially words like misspell or elipsis because I truly don’t know how to spell it so I guessed this time) and end way to many sentences in a preposition, that is if they’re not in a huge run-on format.
I hope you’ll forgive me. The house I can hide from you, but not my poor English skills.
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July 20th, 2010
Let me start off with the thought that we’re very blessed to be a one income family. I appreciate every day that my husband goes to work, that he has a job to go to and that I can stay home and continue homeschooling our daughter who will be in 11th grade this year.
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It’s not always easy budgeting all our needs on one salary but we do okay. We don’t have a big savings account, don’t take big vacations, there aren’t any new cars in the driveway and none of us wear name brand clothing (unless it’s found at a garage sale). And we do have some luxuries such as high speed internet, cable tv, cell phones and two cars instead of just one.
I will admit, I’m not a financial guru, but I’m not completely out of it either. We’ve filed bankruptcy once (in 1998) and have tried to learn from that humbling situation. The very situation that we created ourselves because we truly didn’t care like we should have. We had our car repossessed in the middle of the night. We went out to eat way to much, even in the middle of a bankruptcy. We refused to face our financial problems. We refused to act like adults. And who knows why…
We’ve been behind on our bills. We’ve taken out loans through payday loan companies and then would swear we’d never do that again after paying them off. Then we’d do it again and repeat the process. We didn’t even have a debit card because in the past we would forget to write down a transactions and then the bank notices for bouncing checks came. And the credit cards… ha, we had one with a $200 limit because they didn’t trust us anymore and who could blame them. And all throughout this… we both worked, but we never talked about the problems we were creating or about the fact that we were broke.
It’s been a few years, but now our marriage is stronger and we talk about money issues before they become an issue. We don’t have a credit card anymore because it’s too tempting for us. We finally broke down and picked up a debit card from our bank, but only one so we don’t forget to write it down when we use it (so far so good). We’ve been paying our monthly bills on time, which seems to rule out the need for a payday loan. Making the changes weren’t easy, but looking back on what we’ve done and where we’ve come from, I can see clearly how blessed we are to have only one income.