A One Car Family Story.

DAY ONE.....

About a year and half ago J and I were introduced to a man named Dave Ramsey. You  may know him, he is a FREAK about money...and a devoted christian. I was slightly interested in his "scheme" only in the beginning because he is an open christian who bases half of what he teaches on scripture. So....its kinda like when you read a step he tells you you must complete...he adds in the scripture that says why you should be doing this and all the sudden you want to do it! SO anyways, we ordered the books, took the classes...actually attended them all maybe minus one or two due to working. There was a lot we agreed with about 95%, but then a few we felt needed to be tweeked to our life. What Im getting at is this man has and will save our lives. We are headed in the right direction financially...it just can be so so hard with littles...and especially with another little on the way!

In saying that we knew something had to give with our bills. We both have student loans, car payments, and then of course household billls. How on earth were we supposed to save for a house AND feel comfortable buying it. So after a very long time of talking about this, we decided to sell my car. My car that was sucking my cute little paychecks dry, keeping us from trully paying off debt and saving what we should.

So today was the first day of our one car family...J as you know is a fireman/paramedic and has to leave for work @ 515am!!!! What the heck! But, all good things require hard work. And we are ready to work so hard for our money and buy a home!! Anyways...I rolled out of bed, kinda changed my clothes...J handed me coffee we put a jacket on C and out the door we went. Honestly...it really wasnt that bad! C was great, just kept saying bye bye daddy :( he loves his daddy! Tomorrow morning we have to go get him from work, but we wont be leaving till 6. Im kind of excited about being forced to get up early im hoping it will force me to eventually go to the gym and just be on top of the day. Im not forcing anything right now bc of this baby in the oven.... well see! Just pray that we can handle this change in lifestyle...we should, there are so many people who cant afford 2 vehicles and they make it work...so can we!!!!