"live like no one else..."

My favorite Dave Ramsey quote is "live like no one else now, so you can live like no one else later." Three years ago we sold our home in Pace, moved into a rental and eventually spent a year and a half in a one bedroom apartment. Today we wrote out a check and signed a contract to build our new home! We faced ridicule from friends and family who thought we had lost our minds and all of our money. We managed to pay off all debts, save a down payment and enough to fully furnish the new house. We also learned several valuable "life" lessons concerning needs/wants and sacrifices. Choosing to not sacrifice our children, we have built a loving home and now are building a beautiful house, with one income and discipline.

Pictures to come of our lot and a house in the neighborhood with the same plan!

p.s.
i miss you and hope you'll miss me soon! i'd love to share the excitement with you.

20/20 Stupid in America

I'm posting for my homeschool moms who missed this.

Gladys Hardy on The Ellen DeGeneres Show

The funniest thing I've ever seen in my entire life! I actually watched her show that day and was out of breath from laughing!! Watch the entire thing!

Poor Aaron Spelling

Normally I'm a huge fan of 7th Heaven and have watched the Camden Family and their wholesome television show for years. Last year the show ended. Somehow it was brought back on the new CW network. Poor Aaron Spelling is twisting in his grave tonight over how horrid this show has become. No, it's not the acting. I have a theory on that for another day (I think they actually train them to act in the "7th heaven" way). The new writers have turned the show into a political soapbox. I'm usually the first one to get behind a good cause, but they said "Darfur" atleast 784 times tonight. If anyone doesn't know about Darfur, then just watch 7th Heaven...they''ll give you a lesson! I hope I don't sound cruel and disconnected from the situation. I read. I research and volunteer. I care. BUT on Sunday night at 7:00 p.m. all I want to do is watch 7th Heaven! I want Lucy to do something wacky and Ruthie to save Campbell's soup labels for her school while shamelessly plugging the product. I want Rev. Camden to bring strange kids home for dinner and let them join the family. I want Happy, the dog, to not appear to have aged for ten years. That's it. When I want politics I'll watch Steven Colbert or Jon Stewart like the rest of the world. Ugh! I can only hope that next week they'll tackle the "pantyless hollywood" epidemic or why anyone cares about celebrities at all.