It is only when you are in the service of your fellowmen you are in the service of God. Yup I know that it isn't word for word the scripture but I got the point. We have started doing service once a month as a family. This weekend was full of service. We gave food to Scouting for Food and we went and did another project this weekend. It was good. In December we will pull a few names off the tree and buy presents for kids. I over budget for Christmas every year for this very reason. I remember my mom doing the 12 days of Christmas for a family she felt was in need. Not necessarily financial in need but emotionally and spiritually in need. I went over our fiances tonight. We have some debt but we also have quite a bit in savings. We are about half way to my (1st) savings goal. Once the debt is gone I would like to have five times what my goal now is.
This has been a tough week. I worked some extra hours which were only five hour shifts but were still were time away from the kids. Kids are at their breaking point and wether or not they know it they need schedules and some stablness. School starts Tuesday and comments about how people hope my kids dont kill their teachers with COVID is neither helpful or accurate. Plus we had a budget meeting after months of no meetings. In which we found out that we had once again over spent in August. Which could have been stopped if we would have known earlier in the month. I sent $1500 to student loans. Andrew turned eight yesterday and I am so thankful for him. He is become such a deep thinker and asks these amazing questions that I don't always have the answers to. The meds have helped slow him down but he is still crazy Andrew. We upped the medications and it was like he was on speed. He couldn't sleep and was kind of zombie like. Then there has been a few moments wher
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