More sickness

Been a long time. Sorry as usual.

We have been passing around various ear infections, stomach bugs, and strep during the last couple weeks. Luckily none of it ever reached dramatic proportions but the systematic way we have passed things from one to another and then immediately been smacked with a new virus has been rather comical of late. The medical fund which we had built up pretty well evaporated in a puff of smoke yesterday. When co-pays are $30 and 2 kids go in, and both end up needing a $20 prescription...well...do the math. Meanwhile, at our house, antibiotics have become their own food group.

And of course, blogging becomes a luxury, so that's why nothing has been posted for so long.

Halloween (the real one) was great - kids were good, had fun, and we got some great pics and video. My most recent work-related endeavors were successes as well.

We are on the long slow march to the desperately needed but always short lived Thanksgiving break. And we are frantically trying to figure out how to stretch our gift dollar this holiday season.

It deserves saying again. We are doing a phenomenal job with our current budget. We are living with pretty much ZERO discrectionary income. Every dollar has to go somewhere to keep us afloat. We are paying every day for our past financial mistakes. But I don't dwell on it. We made our mistakes, the past is the past, I'm simply proud of how well we're managing right now. But we are beyond the idea of 'no wiggle room' - we are in a form-fitting box right now.

It's tough. It's sometimes a little scary. And some people who don't know us very well might raise an eyebrow at some current choices, but I can only state with sincerity that everything we do financially now is weighed and is done for a reason. We have a very concrete set of priorities and we stick to it...it might be different from someone else's priority set, but it's true to us and we believe in it. And I do believe that we will come out of this morass somehow. And again - I am proud of the way we are doing things now. Subtract our past foolishness from our current spreadsheets and we'd be living the good life 5 times over.

Anyway, didn't expect this post to go THAT direction, but I feel better having laid that one all out there.

Peace all, enjoy everything around you!

Matt