Well I am in for an interesting year here. I have recently got a really good job that I couldn't pass up without atleast giving it a try. Here are the benefits for me:

17.5 hours MAX per week

Never work before 3:30 pm.

$16.00 per hour starting wage with increases every 6 months.

Easy Job, Typing which I enjoy.

My concerns are:

I am going to have to be a lot more organized with meals, time mangament & chores. I plan to pre-assemble meals for dinner since I might not be home.

I am going to have to get over my home-body attitudes.

I am going to have to figure out how to run a homeschool group in the midst of this.

I am going to have to figure out if I'll be able to be in The Christmas Carol again this year.

So WHY am I taking this job opportunity? Well, one word actually. MONEY

If I take this job, my plan is to give 10% to God, 10% to myself, 5% into an account for my oldest girls to buy them that fancy camera as a gift for taking on extra responsibility around the house while I am gone and 75% into savings.

 My hope is that we can sell our current home at the end of 2010, early 2011 and take the profit from that, along with my savings, along with out income tax returns and purchase my farmhouse on the outskirts of my city. I am willing to take on this job for a little over a year to do just that. My hope is that I can quit working at that time because we will have saved up so much money to put down on our farmhouse, that our payments won't be that much higher than our postage stamp sized house we currently live in. To me, it is worth the sacrafice of 1 year of my life. I hope to give you updates though-out. I start my job August 18th.