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What an insane month!
10:14 PM, May. 3, 2008
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Wow.To explain what's been going on, Ken and I are on a low income as he decided to go back to university to improve his job options. This was to be his last year at university, and then we could get our finances on track. Then we got hit with the positive pregnancy test. Now, honestly, I love children. I love all my children, and I welcome any pregnancy that comes my way. But that doesn't mean that a pregnancy could never cause worries. Having a baby, when we don't have enough seats in our car for another baby, and no glimmer of financial improvement in sight was a little scary. But we decided to trust in God and see what would happen. The first thing was that Ken decided to look for a job. Just a casual job, so that he could continue his university studies. After all, he's nearly finished, and if he could get a better job next year that would really help. So he got a casual job doing night fill at a local supermarket. Then within two weeks he was told he was getting a promotion to a full time position. They will work around his university schedule, AND church services, and aren't even phased by the fact that I'm pregnant and he'll need to take some time off in October to look after the kids while I'm in hospital. AND he loves the job, AND he's good at it. Well, he's obviously good at it, that's why he's getting the promotion. So, we have an increase in finances. Secondly, we had to look at getting a larger car. Otherwise known as Getting Further Into Debt. Knowing nothing about people movers, we did a look online and came to the conclusion that we're looking at spending about $10k. Ouch. I was talking to a friend about this, and she said, 'Why $10k? We're selling ours for $3000'. So I looked at it. It's an 8 seater that's been looked after pretty well. It doesn't have aircon yet, but that's ok. We're hoping that Ken will get time to look at it early next week, but we've looked at reviews of the car online and it seems to be a pretty reliable model. My friend and I agreed that if a young guy at church who has a very good knowledge of mechanics looks at it and ok's it, we'll probably buy it. Now, in Australia the government is trying to combat our aging population by paying women to have babies. So we'll get $5k after the baby is born. My mil has already offered us a short term loan of that amount of money. So we pay $3k for the car, install some aircon and fix the window locks, and we're laughing. We don't have to go into debt for this car, and Ken's new job means we can be paying off our old debts faster. Ok, we don't know for sure that we'll get this car yet, as I said we're waiting for a mechanical evaluation. BUT isn't God good? When something happens that looks to blow you out of the water financially, and instead it helps you get OUT of debt faster, it's just amazing. Of course we're looking at some other ways of decreasing our general living costs; for example we're going to invest in some modern cloth nappies - I wish I'd known about them when I had Jasmine! Oh well. Anyway, God is good, and full of surprises. Leave a Comment { Last Page } { Page 42 of 209 } { Next Page } |
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