Wow How Long It Has Been.


I have not submitted a blog in a while. I believe around Memorial Day 2007 was my last entry. I had forgotten my log in information and just came across it today.
Wow! I need to give an update as to what has happened in the last year. Well lets start with we are now over two years without using credit. We have said no to some purchases because we couldn't afford them, and we have saved up to make some other purchases because we felt that they were important.
One of our biggest goals in 2007 was to build a deck around our pool and find some way to pay cash for it. We were able with the Lord's help to do that and we enjoyed that deck all summer long.
A major goal for 2008 was to pay for a vacation to Tennessee in a cabin in Pigeon Forge for the entire family, extended and all. We were able to save up and pay for this vacation, again thanks to our wonderful Lord in heaven, and we will be taking this trip at the end of March.
My wife was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in January of 2008 and was treated for it at the end of February. So as I write this on March 1st, we are three weeks away from our trip to Dollywood and what a blessing it will be to do it all cash free. This is the first out of town vacation in our lives that will not have payments follow us home.
All glory to God in the highest. Through Him all things are possible.
We have really come to enjoy our new found financial freedom tahnks to budgeting and just living on purpose for over two years. It was hard to say no to ourselves at first, but we realized that we are not congress, we have to live on less than we make. The money doesn't belong to us anyway, which makes it easier to give away.