Very, very blessed...

We are really, really blessed. The Lord is being very good to us right now. I mean, he's always good to us... but right now we can see the actual results of the goodness. Not sure if that makes sense, but I'm sure you know what I mean. And its always much, much better than feeling like the Lord is going to smite you. (Sorry, I've been reading my favorite knitting website again and she is from the South. http://www.crazyauntpurl.com/)

Anyway.... we are blessed to be DEBT FREE finally!!! Yay! O.k. so we do have 1 car payment and the house in Indiana is technically still in my name. However, we don't owe much more on the car and the house is being paid for by the Poor Sucker , oops...I meant very nice Realtor who is leasing it from us to use as a rental.

We had a very small amount of bills left over from our "Year of Trying to Become Responsible Adults". Basically, we sent Jerry to a foreign country for the purpose of not having to feed him so I could pay off the bills with the extra money. O.k. not really, but it kind of felt that way at certain points in the deployment.

The total of things that got paid off...

1 Truck = ~$4,500.00

2 credit cards = ~ $5,500.00 (probably more though since 1 was still in use during this period)

1 Medical bill = $30.00 (Hey... it counts b/c I took the high road and just paid it when it should have been the insurance company's responsibility.)

1 Cell Phone bill = ~$400.00 (Again with the taking the high road and just paying it when Sprint was screwing us over.)

So we won't total all of that b/c I'm sure that you can do that in your head, but to me that's an accomplishment. I don't run huge amounts of debt. I can't. I take medication for the small amount that we have now. I'm sure that they don't make anything strong enough for me to have more than $10,000.00 of "unnecessary debt" (*cough* credit cards *cough*) at any one time. The acid reflux with a $3,000.00 credit card was enough to kill me as it was.

Anywho..... we got Jerry's per diem pay (for the non-military reader: Money that the Army gives you to try to make up for the fact that Iraq sucks.) and instead of buying this:

Or moving off post and renting this:

We chose to finish getting rid of the above list. There was just a very small amount of that left. (We actually got to put about half of the per diem pay in savings! Yes, savings... its an account that previously held less than $100.00.... o.k. we're being honest... less than $50.00.)

Its nice to be blessed. Its much better than the "suffering the consequences of your actions/lack of action" period of my life. I feel more secure than ever too. I know what bills are coming and what money is coming and how much that all works out to.

I QUIT TAKING THE ACID REFLUX MEDICATION BECAUSE I DON'T NEED IT ANYMORE!

That is a blessing in and of itself! Just being able to sleep at night knowing that if something does come up, we can handle it. Instead of calling NBD ("National Bank of Daddy") for a bail out. Its a nice feeling.

O.k. so now we are going to go be blessed to buy my husband new running shoes without putting it back on a credit card. Yay! Have a nice weekend everyone!