They all are leaving me....
Joel took the girls camping for the weekend. They are going to have so much fun! They are also going to miss me, and I them. But it's good for them. It will be wonderful for them to have one on one time with their dad and he with them. I'm so glad Joel decided to take them.
Josh is leaving me tonight to spend the weekend with a friend's family at their cabin. I'm glad he has this friend. He is a good kid and comes from a good family. They will have a lot of fun. It sounds like the grandparents have set up a similar situation as I would like to do for our kids. After the kids grew up they made each of their bedrooms up for their families, so they can come stay, and leave their stuff there, and nobody else uses the room. They, of course, are lucky to have lake-front property, so that makes a big draw. But they go up there often and spend weekends with cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents. Just like I want!
Jacob has to work the whole weekend, so he's not going to keep me company either :( booo. I have to teach this Sunday so I at least will be getting out of the house to church. I also am picking up a desk I found on Craigslist for one of the girls' rooms. Hopefully I get some more calls back from sellers on Craigslist too, I've got my eyes on another desk and a baker's rack for outdoor plants and also some fencing for a pasture. Cereal for dinner, maybe a show on hulu and reading. That's about all I have in the plans. I hope the quiet doesn't drive me nuts!
Friday, August 17, 2012
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Lessons Learned
Sometimes the mistakes we make are hard to live with. Sometimes they are hard to accept and we'd like to blame others for our misfortune. Sometimes we just have to deal with it and move on and consider it a lesson learned. That is what we are facing today.
We signed a purchase agreement with a buyer, who is a mobile home dealer. We lost a lot of money on that house, but we couldn't go on any longer with the way things were. We were getting deeper and deeper into the hole and missing payments to our debtors. So the good news is that we will have enough to pay off all our credit cards and also have enough for Jake's mission. The bad news is that we won't have anything left over to splurge on several things we have on our list, such as a wood burning furnace to help save on propane heating costs, electricity to the garage, or a motorcycle for Joel to use for commuting to work and save on gas money, etc. But paying off our creditors frees up money for us to save for those things on our list. So we may not get them all now, but we have the ability to save for them, so that is good.
I'm thankful that we had the option to sell to a dealer, at least that's better than sitting on a house we can't get sold and paying thousands in lot rent and house insurance and getting deeper and deeper into late payments to our creditors. Hopefully there hasn't been too much damage done to our credit scores in the last couple of months that we can't recover from them in the next year or two.
We signed a purchase agreement with a buyer, who is a mobile home dealer. We lost a lot of money on that house, but we couldn't go on any longer with the way things were. We were getting deeper and deeper into the hole and missing payments to our debtors. So the good news is that we will have enough to pay off all our credit cards and also have enough for Jake's mission. The bad news is that we won't have anything left over to splurge on several things we have on our list, such as a wood burning furnace to help save on propane heating costs, electricity to the garage, or a motorcycle for Joel to use for commuting to work and save on gas money, etc. But paying off our creditors frees up money for us to save for those things on our list. So we may not get them all now, but we have the ability to save for them, so that is good.
I'm thankful that we had the option to sell to a dealer, at least that's better than sitting on a house we can't get sold and paying thousands in lot rent and house insurance and getting deeper and deeper into late payments to our creditors. Hopefully there hasn't been too much damage done to our credit scores in the last couple of months that we can't recover from them in the next year or two.
Garden 2012: FAIL
Oh my, goodness me! We are a bunch of silly city slickers, and our garden showed it!
We were so anxious to plant a garden this year. I blame the beautiful warm weather that came early in the spring. We didn't plow in any composting or special dirt for our garden. We just tilled and planted, and boy was that a big mistake! I am learning better ways now, and hope that next years garden will show it!
On my agenda this fall:
1) Mark off territory to be used for the garden.
2) Kill everything in that area, using weed killer and fire.
3) Begin a compost pile near garden to be used in two springs from now.
4) Put down cow manure.
5) Till, till, till.
6) Till in compost next spring.
7) Use a tarp for unused spots in the garden to keep weeds down. Click here for why. My friend Amy does this and her garden is AMAZING and very weed resistant.
So, now we have learned a little more about what NOT to do when planting a garden.
I almost wish I had a picture for you, to show you how pathetic our garden looked this week, but really, I'm so ashamed of it, I don't want any evidence of how bad it was. Just trust me, it was a complete failure and not worth taking a picture of.
We were so anxious to plant a garden this year. I blame the beautiful warm weather that came early in the spring. We didn't plow in any composting or special dirt for our garden. We just tilled and planted, and boy was that a big mistake! I am learning better ways now, and hope that next years garden will show it!
On my agenda this fall:
1) Mark off territory to be used for the garden.
2) Kill everything in that area, using weed killer and fire.
3) Begin a compost pile near garden to be used in two springs from now.
4) Put down cow manure.
5) Till, till, till.
6) Till in compost next spring.
7) Use a tarp for unused spots in the garden to keep weeds down. Click here for why. My friend Amy does this and her garden is AMAZING and very weed resistant.
So, now we have learned a little more about what NOT to do when planting a garden.
I almost wish I had a picture for you, to show you how pathetic our garden looked this week, but really, I'm so ashamed of it, I don't want any evidence of how bad it was. Just trust me, it was a complete failure and not worth taking a picture of.
Thursday, August 02, 2012
Pie Day!
Tomorrow is Braham Pie Day. If you are curious, check it out by clicking this! My mother-in-law is coming up for it. We are excited to check it out. I hope that in the future I can get involved volunteering for it.
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