Some cheese with my whine.

I always joke with my mom that there is no "normal" month to budget from. But, seriously I could use one. Just one, that's all I'm asking. Let's run down the expenses since Sept:
Well, there was a trip to the Zoo and a hotel stay, around $250 if you want to count gas. :) Then there were two new carseats for the kiddos, around $300. Then there was one year's worth of grocery money (at least it better be!), $3,000. Then, a golf ball hit the window. $165. Then, the furnace needed to be serviced, $108, and the rooms painted to put the house on the market. $200. Then, the dryer died. Service call $48, new washer and dryer, somewhere in the $1,800 neighborhood. Then we put our house on the MLS, $595. Then, I talked to an accountant and we owe $2,000 in taxes. Then Hubby brought his truck in to be serviced. We just got an estimate for $3,100, apparently calipers, a rear differential, u-joints, rotors, brakes and some transmission leak. Then Hubby tells me we need new tires. If I were a MasterCard commercial, I would end with "Having a well stocked emergency fund? Priceless". (oh, please don't add up all those numbers, you don't want to know the total. Trust me.) And that's just since September. Don't even make me recall the first half of the year!!

Oh, did I mention that Christmas is next month?

Seriously, one normal month? Would that be too much to ask?? maybe, just maybe Murphy could take 2008 off?

Oh, did I mention that our property was reassessed, and our property taxes are going to be...let's just say painful...next year.

Maybe I don't want whine and cheese...maybe just a really big martini...or two...or three...

In other news, Buddy has decided that he no longer cares about using the potty. Except when DH is home. Oh well, except that pull-ups are not cheap!

All right, I am officially done whining now. :)

Really though I should not be whining because God is good. We have our health (except that Little Miss has a cold agian...I think she was healthy for a grand total of 8 days), we have a happy family, God (through my hard working husband) continues to put food on the table, heat in the house, and clothes on our backs, and when it comes down to it, that is really all we need; everything else is just a bonus. So, we can only be thankful that He has provides our daily bread. I look around and see so many people hurting, so many children living without, so many parents who have to work multiple jobs just to survive and I have no right to ever complain about my life. We have never been left begging for food, and God has continued to be faithful to us. So, I guess my MasterCard commercial is less about a healthy emergency fund, and more about a gracious Heavenly Father. Because in the end, we don't deserve any of it. Especially not the Christmas presents.