light in the tunnel

It's been a month since I wrote...   lots of stuff keeping me away.. not much of it real important other than it needed to be done...

anyhoo.. as some of you know we are following a modified  Dave Ramsey plan to get out of debt... Modified in this manner.. we take vacations.. or getaways.. weekend or otherwise.  one of those is coming up this weekend.. really need it.. it's been a long 3 months since Soulfest..

I/we are at the point in this journey that we can see the end of the tunnel.. the light is dim at the end but it is there.  And that is causing some frustration on my part... I can see that with an additional small sum of money I could be where the light is bright.. not dim..

 I know I need the weekend away.. my wife and I have promised ourselves we will go away for a weekend every two to three months.. just us.. no kids. we spent a lot of years doing nothing for our relationship.. no time for us.. going from one event or need of the kids to another.  We finally realized a few years ago that in doing that we were headed for a large strain when the kids left..  We have decided that it isn't going to happen.. I refuse to be the guy in the divorce section of the paper where it says married 1989 divorced finalized 2015.. And everyone that reads it goes..WOW is that sad.. wonder what happened.?  I can tell you what happened... He spent that last 25 years raising the kids..paying the bills.. and forgot about the lady that he married and wanted to spend the rest of his life with..   Consider this.. We have our Children in our home for 18-25 years each..  We will be married to our spouses for over 50 years..   You have a lot longer time with the spouse than the child..  take care of the spouse too... your children will appreciate it...

So if all goes as planned.. I will have removed two to three large bills(payments) by the end of December.. Freeing up cash to pay the other bills quicker.. WE are in the acceleration phase.. I cannot wait to eliminate those payments.. with 9 months I should only have the truck and the house.. :) 

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