Today is Thursday; busy day ahead of me. I have to CLEAN my house (big surprise), work on accounting stuff (get paid), pay some bills, laundry (ugh I hate it), show a rental property @ 2pm, then rush back home to get Kylee from the bus @ 3:30pm...then dinner, homework, Halloween parade and take Brandi to dance and come home at 10pm!
Benaiah and I have officially paid off ALL of our debt! No car payments (paid our van off 1.5 years early), no credit card payments......nadda! I am also trying to budget our utilities as much as possible....learning to live differently is fun and exciting! So with all this change we have also decided that we have lived without health and life insurance for TOO LONG! So we officially will have health insurance 11/1/2008 and we cant wait to see the doctor and get all our physicals (just to know we are ok!). Oh, to the dentist we both shall go! Still looking into life insurance policies....but they are coming next!
You ever do something nice for someone, then have them use the situation against you? This is how I feel about a person I helped find a home. We moved here over 2 years ago, when my twins started 8th grade here, one of the friends they made happened to be the son of a girl I grew up with on the same block (around the age our kids are now). I heard how her husband became very ill and spent numerous months in and out of the hospital. All the while she was trying to work, take care of the kids and be with him in the hospital. Her bills started to fall behind, eventually so, that one day Benaiah was reading the paper and noticed their address was in the Public Notices and being foreclosed on. Now it isnt like me to ever hear of anyone in trouble and not try to think of ways I can help them. Since being in real estate and working with owners of rental properties (had a listing here in Red Hill) I contacted the owner and asked that he give her and her family a chance to stay in the area and keep the kids in the same school. I talked it over with her and her husband and made sure they could afford this home and they said they could. I was able to work it out so that within 2 weeks they were in a new home and now had the peice of mind knowing that they didnt have to move. Ever since they moved in, I have had to chase them down for rent that is constantly paid late (even the utility companies have contacted me about shut offs). She never returns my calls and now I am being left with no choice to evict them. This sucks for their kids and myself (I put my word on the line). I am very upset because apparently they just dont manage their money right, they had the chance of a lifetime to live in a very nice home in a nice community and for less than others! Such a shame!
Kylee is such an awesome dancer, she is dancing three nights a week now. I love to watch her dance and sing! Brandi is starting a new form of dance along with hip hop this year also....she is so great at it (might see her on MTV someday). Amanda will be starting piano lessons as soon as I can locate a free piano somewhere! I love that my girls are all so musically talented (I could of never been).
Having a house is so much work! Wouldnt be so bad if I could just motivate my husband to do it! When we got this old house, we knew the work that it would take....I knew and was very prepared to handle the inside (decorating and painting, etc.) even the landscape! But Benaiah knew the work that needed to be done on the porch, roof, etc. And after two years......I have a half completed fence! Somedays I think we should of moved into a condo!
Twins are done field hockey! Whew.....now we have catching up to do with academics! They need to refocus and get their grades up! Kylee is an awesome reader for any of you who wanted to know.......I am amazed how well she can read at 6!
Benaiah heard on the radio that the Eagles Cheerleaders were holding a cheer clinic last Saturday...so we decided to take Kylee. She loves cheerleading! So she got a TShirt which they signed, pictures taken with the cheerleaders, her own pom-poms, and learned cheers and then preformed them on the Lincoln Financial Field! Benaiah was more excited than her I think, he even took some of the grass from the field and put it into his pocket (which he says he is going to frame!)
So that is all I can think of at the moment! Thanks for reading my many thoughts...lol.
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