Well here goes....a little about myself and why I, personally need to make some changes. I am a wife, 20 years this fall, and stay at home mom to five children whose ages range from just turning 3-18. Yes, they are all mine and my husbands and I gave birth to each one. Our oldest will be starting college in the fall and our youngest has another year before she starts preschool. I don't know which is scarier. My reasons for starting this blog thing is in hopes of making some changes in my life and maybe blogging about it will hold me accountable and give me a place to occasionally vent a tad.
My personal goals are pretty typical, I would like to try to become an organized mom, if you know me, quit laughing now, lose weight and get out of debt. The three goals are connected more than I would like to think. Maybe someone will actually read this and have some insight on that. The main focus is to get out of debt and the other two hopefully fall into place.
I have just started reading blogs in the past few months and I really enjoy and see the benefits they seem to bring into someones life so time to give it a try. I don't really know what I am doing and sometimes tend to ramble on when I talk, but writing makes me focus better and more importantly, edit.
So back to the goal of getting out of debt, we have a lot of it. Not because we have all the luxuries in life, we are actually both pretty low maintenance we are just terrible, and I mean terrible at managing our money. As I mentioned before, I am a stay at home mom, so my husband makes all the money, something else I would like to change. He works 10 hour days during the week and usually works the weekends. Not to mention his side job of umpiring and refereeing softball, football and basketball. With all his hard work we still live paycheck to paycheck and always seem to spend any extra money when we have it. So I am tired of our cycle and ready to quit complaining, yay to that, and start making some changes. Now, where to begin?????
