April 20, 2007 New Blog!!!

I have thought about setting up a blog site for some time now. I thought it would be difficult and I would have to pay someone a ridiculous amount of money to spend 5 minutes on the computer, but it was so easy!!!! Now that I have one set up I commit myself to post at least 5 times a week, schedule permitting, and to keep our family and friends up to date on our lives here in Central Oregon!!!

This week has been crazy!! Marc has been doing backflow tests like a mad man, his goal is to cover our first mortgage payment without touching his regular paycheck!! So far, he is way beyond that and, we have the money to paint the house already set aside. I haven't been too great about keeping track of our finances over the years so we sat down and talked about it, I feel so liberated knowing that we have a little nest egg going. Since we decided to be smarter with our money I have "found" over $600.00!! I discovered that I overpaid on our gas bill by almost $450.00 over the last three months. And then we found out that our insurance covered more for Tucker's $500.00 dental appointment than we thought they would, by over $200.00!!! Oprah said something a few years ago that has stuck with me but, i had never applied to my life. She said something to the effect of, organize your money and you will find more, she said this applied to even keeping it in order in your wallet, ones and fives and tens etc. I am sure this is just a way of better keeping track of how we spend but, it never sunk in that I should be doing it too!!! Anyhow, enough for today!! Make the best of this short time we have on earth!!!