We Paid Cash!

This week we bought a new dining room table. The boys are now big enough to play upstairs and my dining room is no longer a play room. The table we have had for years only sat 4 people and we have quickly outgrown that. So we took to saving. We put back tips and finally had enough to buy a beautiful table that I wanted. We put a good chunk down and took part in a 4 months same as cash program. We should have it completely paid off in 2 months.


We are so excited to finally have family meals. This is the first start to many starts for our sweet family. I am so excited and can't wait to share with you in the up coming months.

We also sold our old table for $20 on online yard sale sites. That money goes to the vacation fund.

Dipping into the Bucket

Our air conditioner decided to stop working last night. It has been burning up in here while I am trying to clean. It just stopped raining so I can open the windows. My parents let us borrow their spare fans to help cool us off since we can not get a repair man out until Monday. We certainly do not have any money set aside to pay for the repair (do not tell Dave Ramsey on me, he'd be mad), so we are going to have to dip into the vacation bucket. That is okay though because it can be replaced. I am just thankful that we have the money here at all. For now we are opening windows and using fans. I am glad that our electric bill will be lowered next month. We have to wait until Monday because I refuse to pay the hefty weekend fees.