Ahhh, life...

A few months ago I read a man's blog and he said somthing like; "It seems I either have nothing to blog about or I am so busy doing stuff I don't have time to blog." I could totally relate! I have definately felt that way, especially lately. So, what has been going on? Or has it been that there has been nothing to blog about. Well, the answer is a little bit of both!

In an effort of trying to make my blog "real' and not just the cheery part of life I think I need to say, life has been a little bit stressful lately! Over Labor Day Weekend, I read a book called "Debt Proof Living" it is an excellent book, with excellent ideas. For quite a while Doug and I have known we needed to do something to improve our finances and this book seemed to be the answer. So we set up the "Rapid Debt Repayment" program and have been working hard to get our finances in order. Fortunately, this is wonderful for me to feel, even if we have very little money, at least I know where it is going and I am in control of it. Unfortunately, it has made me a little stressed about what we should do with our money and it's made me stressed when mistakes are made with handling the money. I think I have to learn how to deal with that a little bit better! I'm working on it, it's all part of the process and I truly believe our lives and marriage will be better because of it. I would really encourage everyone to check this book out!

Last week (Sept 8-12) Doug was gone to his Electrician classes. Part of his apprenticeship requires that he attends classes for one week every other month. Since it's so expensive to drive back and forth he stayed with Leslie and her family (thanks, Leslie, for putting up with him!). I'm not used to having Doug gone. He's never gone. But he was gone for 5 long days. Actually things went better than I thought they would although I was busy. He was also able to spend a little bit of time with his brother who was here for his wife's grandma's funeral (did that make sense?). That was definately a blessing for him to be down there for that. During this time we received a little bit of troubling news. It was hard for us to not be together to support each other. (Don't worry, we're all fine- just needed to process.) But we all survived, and we were all grateful to be reunited! Everyday Maddie would say "I just can't believe how much I miss my Dad!" I think it's good for us to be apart occassionally- it makes us appreciate each other. But, boy, I do need some "me" time right now! (If I can hold on, we're having a scrapbook day next weekend!)

We've also had some WONDERFUL times! One of them is coming up in the next post.