despite some not so fun stuff.

..to January? Things will be so much better then. Starting over with a clean slate and a 20% raise in our take-home pay.

It all looks so bright. Mike will finally be able to adopt our son and that makes me ecstatic.

You know.. A chapter 13 is a gutsy move to make in retrospect. Who knows if their jobs are bound to last 5 years past their filing? Mine didn't last 5 months.

Here I am though, happy and successful to this point.

I have the most beautiful family and a job that I love and...

sometimes, is that you're an idiot..

It's funny to me that I spent 2 years building an emergency fund and it was wiped out in one day. In June my daughter had a febrile seizure caused by chicken pox. Of course, I had NO idea that it was caused by CP at the time and we rode in an ambulance to the hospital. The trip along with the copay...

It's hard to believe that I have been in this for 27 months. It doesn't seem real. If I were in my original plan I would only have 9 months to go. It kind of makes me sad to think that, honestly. A little over a year ago I was facing a dismissal after being laid off and then welcoming a new baby into...