Workin Hard for the Money

So somehow I payed all my bills and I still have money for food shopping! This new job of Eben's is working out really well. When Eben started doing Cable Contracting he was making alot of money and we knew if we didn't put all our money towards bills that we would have nothing to show for it. So we spent all our money getting out of debt. We did good and are pretty well debt free(besides our house) which has been a HUGE blessing. During the summer we really wanted to stay in Fillmore and not travel around so much, so Eben took a very small paying job (like $8 an hour) and that hardly payed our house payment so we got a little behind on bills and made new ones with Josh going into the hospital for 2 days, the kids with there teeth, and doing a little fixing up around the house. So we have bills again but I payed our payments and still have money for food!....which is huge. I am so grateful for Eben's new job. He isn't home very much but I know it's all worth it to have him in the same state as us. Plus we are able to go to work with him so it's not bad.

In other news I have plans to have a "second loved Christmas" this year. The requirements on a "second loved Christmas" are that any gift you give or receive needs to be something someone has made, something they love and are now passing along to someone else who will love it also, or just a story of when they were little(some things they enjoyed, a funny story, anything they want someone to know about them)

Im pretty excited and I hope everyone who plans on getting us gifts this year will decide to do this and also pass along the idea to friends and family members. Everyone has far to many "things" and I wanna get away from the stress of spending so much money every Christmas. Everyone is having a rough year and Christmas is a time for celebration not stress and greed.