Good Morning Cold Day
Brrrr......
We wake up at 6am in our house when we get some animals we might have to adjust that time. This gives us enough time for the kids to get ready for school. Getting dressed, eating breakfast, brushing teeth and hair wow seems like a lot for them. Melanie does good and most of the time wakes up in a great mood ready to start the day, our 13 year old not so much. We have to drag him out of bed. He wants to wait till the last minute and rush around. The bus comes at 7:05am right in front of our house, it drives by and does a turn around at the end of the street so they have time to walk down our long driveway to meet it. Melanie walks out the door when she watches it go by the house and Russell is running down the drive after her. lol. While this is all happening Dad is getting ready for work he must leave by 6:30am, he has a 40 minute commute to work. Most days Dad is back home at around 5:15pm Monday through Friday. Not bad we both worked crazy hours before where there would be days where one of us would not see the kids for days. Now we always have family dinner together every night, at the kitchen table. We all talk about our day, it is an important time of our day,we all look forward to it. The kids the most. Before Dad leaves he helps start two wood stoves to heat the house. We have oil heat in the house but oil is expensive so we try to use the wood stove to heat the house, most of the time. When we moved in we had the oil tank filled 3/4's of the way and to this day we have only used 1/4 of the tank. We think that is great. We have gone through about 4 cords of wood but that is cheaper than oil. Our house is about 72 degrees all day long and may drop down to about 62 at night but it heats right back up in the morning when the stoves get going again. It is one way we can save money.
Saving money is the key. We do a lot to save money, we think about it all the time. Living on a budget is very important for us to live like we do. Many times we want to stray from our budget but we have to think of where we have come from and where we are now and that makes us stay with it. We will blog of our money saving things we do and have done that help us stay away from credit cards and debt. OK time to feed the dogs :) and do some laundry folding, it never ends. I have some exciting blogs coming. We are remodeling our kitchen and it is coming out great. But I have to go for now........
