• May. 30, 2007
I'm excited about what a little motivation can do! All of us (my family) has been motivated to reach some good goals this week.
Hubby and I have been discussing selling our land. It's doubled in value since we bought it six years ago and we could use the money to pay off all our debt. We drove out to the land Monday night. I was wanting a visual confirmation of the condition of our "neighborhood". Some of the neighbors have brought in really junky mobile homes and one neighbor has decided to start a wrecking service and is lining up cars that've seen their better days (thankfully, he's down the road from us a ways and we won't have to see him much!).
The rest of our neighbors live in nicer homes with great property, so I think the good far out weighs the bad. After this confirmation, we got excited about our land once again. We came home and refigured our get-out-of-debt plan and if we work really hard, we can be out and ready to build a house in about a year! We're going to be rolling those pennies we find in the couch cushions!
The girls are now super motivated (bribed) to clean their room and do their chores. We spent Sunday afternoon making a chore reward box. When the get their weekly allowance and extra money job money (which is fake money), they can cash it in for treats (me painting their nails, going to the park, or bigger ticket items like going to the zoo) or cash. They love looking on the computer for their chore list and highlighting the chores as they're completed on the Word document! Their room is so clean and they're motivated to get it and keep it that way!
And, of course, it's the time of year to start planning for next school year! I'll be combining the oldest girls in 2 of Sonlight's Cores so they'll be doing Ancient History together. Although I'm still loving American History, I guess I can go back to the Romans and Egyptians for a little while :) I'll start the 3 year old (she'll be 4 when we start) in Before Five in a Row and then do Sonlight's great PK next year. So, we're motivated to hurry up our last 10 weeks of Cores K and 4! Its been a good school year!
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• May. 30, 2007
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Posted by TOSPUBLISHER
It's fun when the family bands together for a common goal. Keep us posted on your debt reduction plan and the building of your future house.
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• Jun. 1, 2007
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Posted by 4sweetums
Good luck! My husband and I talk about building our own house too.
