I thought I should document how lucky I am feeling today. In my line of work (or future work) I see people everyday at their worst, their rock bottom, and I think it has helped me appreciate how lucky my family and I are. We have the money to afford to live and to get some of the more luxurious things in life, we have food, I have family that supports me, I have clothes and shelter. There are some/a lot of people who even lack the basics, so I am just feeling very fortunate today. I am also feeling fortunate because my marriage is working out, so my family is staying together. Andrew and I seem to be in the best spot we have been since, well probably since 2005. I am just thankful that he forgave me and I have been able to be a little (a lot) less bitchy. It is a work in progress! But I have noticed that everyone in the house is in a better mood. Maybe it has to do with me being so close to being done with school, my meds helping with the pain more, Andrew being happier at work now that he has his own station – whatever it is I hope it keeps up!
The boys are doing great. Nothing new and exciting – well Aiden is 24mo pants! Wahoo! They are so cute together, they play really well and i love the little extra time it gives me – so long as I am not breaking up a fight every 3 seconds. I still get asked if they are twins. I think they look alike but not that alike. Aiden is talking in full sentences, he is much further along that Landen was at that age, but he has also been in daycare and around a sibling more that Landen was at this age so I guess that’ll explain that away.
So the only news I have is that we traded in the minivan for a 2009 Ford Escape. Since I drive 90 miles a day when I am interning (which is about to be 3 days a week) I use the car because it has way better gas miliage so Andrew has been stuck with the van, which he hates driving around in. Plus things keep breaking. We just got new tires and breaks and we had to fix something else that I don’t remember and now on one of the sliding doors the wires were coming out and getting frayed because they kept getting caught in the track. So, Andrew looked online for a car he wanted, I called our bank (USAA) and got pre-approved for a loan at 4.6% fixed APR, we were paying 11% on the van so we were like hells yea lets get a new one! Our next step is to pay down the car to within 120% of its value and refinance at the 4.6% instead of the almost 12% we are paying now.
I really think that’s it! Anyway. Now you know my life story – sorry about that…
