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Monday, August 28, 2017

Coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee!

Okay, now that I've gotten my caffeinated kick-in-the-pants, it's time to update my blog (insert face of shame here.)  It appears that I haven't exactly kept up with my posts as I said I would and I am deeply sorry.  The things you've missed!  I'm sure you've been trying and have been unable to cope with the loss of my semi-regular posts. I hope I haven't caused too much grief. Ha!

I believe I saw that my last post was in March, so let's see what you've missed.  I became very busy in April, planning for our biggest event at work, and that's when I dropped the ball on my posts.  I let the ball remain dropped as I took a second job in May when Mr. P's hours were cut at work for a couple of months.  No worries, it's only part time and it's a pretty simple job washing laundry at a hotel.  I took the job intending to work until Mr. P's hours were back to normal, but I've decided to stay a little longer to get our finances back in order.  I also want to take advantage of the discount I'm supposed to get. 😉

In addition to my working 6 days a week, you missed the entirety of the little league baseball season (Little A did so well!) and the beginning of our early-onset mid-life crisis.

Let me back up a bit and remind you of some of my 2017 goals.  I have been determined that 2017 is going to be a good year, and it has been.  We've had ups and downs like everyone.  One of our goals at the beginning of the year was to pay off 2 credit cards - check!  Another was to take a family vacation.  That goal was offset by the fact that we had 2 school trips for Big A, prom and an assortment of fairly costly car repairs all of which occurred at nearly the same time.  It seemed we were not going to be able to take our vacation after all.  ðŸ˜­  Now, I am very proud of myself and how I handled Big A's transition to actual licensed driver, etcetera.  However, the stresses of work and the realization that he will only be home for 2 more years fueled Mr. P's and my breadown. We decided that we're tired of working our fannies off just to pay bills.  We're tired of watching everyone else enjoy their lives, have fun and do what they want even when they're stressed for cash. How do they do it???  Well, we still don't know, but we came up with our own solution - we will embrace our debt! We figure we will always be in debt, so why not have a little fun along the way. Let's quit using phrases like "I wish we would have..."  Let's actually see the concerts we're excited about and let's take the vacations we want!  Let's explore and live life, no looking back! I bought tickets for some concerts and I booked a vacation on one of my paid off credit cards and I don't even feel bad about it 😤.  (I should note here that I have not completely charged up the card, the concerts are paid off and I plan to have said vacation paid off before we go in October.  I might be having a nervous breakdown, but I'm still responsible!)

So now you're caught up - I work a lot and I've gone a little (a lot?) crazy, but my spark is back and I'm counting down the days until our much-needed family vacation!