It’s That Time Again

It seems there is much to catch up on from the last few months. Now that the kids are back in school, I have found time to upload the photos from this summer. Only to find that I didn’t even really take that many. I wish I was better at snapping pics over the summer.

Once again I have failed to post about many things that have passed, but I am not going to try to fit it all in right now. That would be too overwhelming. So I’m just going to take it slowly.

This is one of my most favorite
moments from this summer.

Disney puts on the best firework shows ever!

Today We Found A . . .

Butterfly

This afternoon we found a butterfly in our garage.
It wouldn’t fly away, so we think there might have
been something wrong with it.

It wasn’t just a small butterfly. It was huge!
It had about a six inch wing span.

We found a home for it, and we hope that it recovers soon.

Financial Planning 101

Murphy’s Law

Over the last few weeks, we have been taking a financial class to help us learn how to: Get out of debt, Stay debt free, and invest in the future. We have learned many great concepts that will help us achieve these goals.

The classes started in April, and soon after we attended our first one, Steve’s car broke ($800). This was just another reason why April sucked. We had made a decision to stop charging on our credit card and this happens. Great!

Murphy’s law: 
When you try to save money something expensive will happen.

 

 

This week we had some extra money come our way. We have already put a nice chunk towards debt this month, so we decided to use the extra money to build a fence that will keep Henry in the backyard this summer. This is a necessity.

Steve got online and estimated the cost of two side fences, and guess what? It worked out to be the same amount of the extra money. Nice!

We headed right out to Home Depot with our list of supplies. We decided to take Henry with us so that he wouldn’t cause trouble for Thomas who was in charge because Jonathon was on a Scout Campout.

This is what we came home to.

 

Thomas did this while we were gone – I guess you could call it an accident, but the point is that we had some extra money, then we spent it, and now it’s probably going to cost us the same amount to fix the window.

Luckily we were able to complete the first step in our financial plan, so we do have an emergence savings account. I just didn’t want to dip into so soon.

Things we learned today, Thomas is not responsible enough to be left in charge; there is always going to be something that requires your extra money; and making money answering questions on the internet is not worth your while. But that’s another story.

BTW: Does anyone know a good window guy?