We're Staying Put!

After long, long talks and lots of thinking, praying and flip-flopping, we have decided to stay in our house. I am surprised how at peace with this decision I am. I expected to be disappointed (even though, in the end, I was the one who really pressed to stay here) but I'm really not. I think the idea of having extra money, paying off debts, building savings, and being able to do some fun stuff with the kids was the motivator in the end. It also helps that we figured out where to put in the raspberries!!

I'm not really sure why but I've been really feeling passionate about, for lack of a better word, "being a good steward." I feel like we only have one earth and I need to do my part to care for it. I need to not be wasteful and decrease my "footprint" on the earth. At the same time, I feel like the Lord has blessed me with a nice life, my husband works hard and we have everything we need so I should be a good steward of that also. Jim and agree that we could afford to buy a new house with land but we wonder if we should afford it. In the end we decided that it was much wiser to stay here and use that extra money for other, more important, things. Besides, when we went and looked at houses, we realized that the house we really wanted was the one we were living in! Not all the children are happy with our decision but we are hopeful that once they see what the extra money will allow us to do, they won't be as disappointed.

Two things exciting happened today. The first is that I called the realtor and set up a time to come and take pictures, measure rooms and officially get this house on the market! He is coming on Wednesday and I'm excited, nervous and stressed out all at the same time! We still have some small jobs to finish (i.e; touch up paint, some yard work etc) and lots of cleaning/organizing. The weather is not cooperating this weekend for yard work - we are expecting a freak cold snap with possible snow! In April! But we can get all the inside stuff done.

The other exciting thing was my steal of a deal at Albertsons. They have a variety of Quaker products on sale 10 for $15, if you buy ten you get $3 off making them $1.20 a piece. We got boxes of Cinnamon Life cereal, and Quaker Oatmeal to Go Bars (my oldest daughter eats these for breakfast on the way to school everyday!). So I got 10 boxes of cereal and 10 boxes of Oatmeal to Go's for $24! Yeah me! This will, of course, be added to my totals and almost puts me over the $100 mark for this week but I won't have to buy cereal for the rest of the month and I can be a little more frugal next week (no cookies or chips!).


Jill