Friday, December 29, 2006

Hallelujah!!!

Well, next Tuesday when the check that we mailed is posted, we will have payed-off yet another large bill!! We are slowly but surely getting out of debt.

For those of you that don't know us personally, nine years ago when we had Prophet was the start of a big financial mess that is still being worked on!! Having a child in the NICU for 3 months and being sick, having surgery, and in the hospital myself for 2 weeks, brought on some pretty hefty bills!! Even after insurance our portion of the bills was 30 grand!! The total was over 300 grand!!!

The frustrating part about this is that I know someone who had no insurance for their child when something tragic happened to her, so she was under the state's healthcare, and they havn't had to pay a dime for any of her healthcare and she also recieves social security on top of that!! And here we are 9 1/2 years after the fact, a couple who had no debt before this happened, didn't even use credit cards, and we're still counting every penny every month and working our butts off to do it all on our own without help!! Seems so unfair!!

Anyway, enough with the pity party, we've managed to stay on top of things and are getting closer and closer all the time to seeing the light at the end of the "in debt" tunnel!! A couple more years and we should be out if nothing else happens!!!!

Anyway, I'm excited to finally have that one weight off our shoulders, now onto the next big bill!!!

4 comments:

Nan said...

Grace, What an acomplishment. You should really be proud that you were able to do that. I like the phrase "seeing the light at the end of the 'in debt' tunnel."

Lauren said...

I'm so proud of you!!!!!!!!!!! Step by step, you're doing it. God will use your story to encourage others who find themselves in similar circumstances!

Sarah said...

Boy! That is a huge deal! Congrats to you!

Grace said...

yahoo!!!!1