It's March Madness!!!

Hello it's March. I can't believe at the end of this Month my daughter will be 4 years old. It just seemed like yesterday we were bring her home from the Hospital with this 4lbs, 13oz healthy baby girl and now she's 41 inch's tall about 35lbs. She's so precious to us and our gift from God. Well I'm in the process of simplifying my life. As much as I love material things and I like shopping and spending money I feel my house is cluttered with stuff and a whole lot of stuff. Do we need this stuff? Okay, some of the stuff I can't live without but other stuff like the 4 boxes of clothes I have in my bedroom I haven't worn in years, the garage full of boxes of stuff we haven't unpacked yet and I'm not missing any of it so do I need to still keep it? The answer is no, I don't need it if I'm not even using it so it will have to go. I'm planning a yard sale sometime this year and then the rest we don't sale we'll donate. I hate clutter and it drives me crazy. Most of the time I don't like going into the kids play area because the kids have all the toys scattered all over the floor. I like my family room now because it's toy free. It's my tidy room plus the TV is in it. The kids can bring toys in there to play but at the end of the day the toys go back to the playroom. My Family room is my grown up space and when I start feeling overwhelmed I can sit on my couch and look around my space which haven't been over-run by toys, hubby's train parts and everything else that seems to collect around the rest of my house. So our trying to save money is coming along. We did have to spend some money to save money in the long run. We ordered a new TIVO box because our old one isn't digital so when we don't have cable we wouldn't be able to watch the channels you can just pull out of the air and so we upgraded and got ourselves a great deal in the process. We have a lot of plans. We think sometime next year we will be out of credit card debt so the only debt we will have is our mortgage on our home. Our last Car payment is in July and that's another $600 a month savings. So by the end of August we'll be saving around $700 a month and I'm sure we can cut back on more. There will be some expenses we'll pick up along the way like our daughters preschool expense in the fall. It's weird how I feel like a responsible person. Does this mean I'm finally an adult? Whatever the case I think the hubby and I feel like we're getting in a better place financially. We don't want to feel like money is an issue and if we want to go on vacation to Disneyland for example we can go do that. It's great to spend money but it's also great not living paycheck to paycheck!!!! I still want to go home to Canada sometime in the next few years. I miss home. It will be 7 years in September since I've been home. I can't believe it's been that long. Wow, now I'm starting to get homesick. It's been way to long and so that costs a lot of money to travel with a family of four. Okay, now I'm sad. I didn't want to get myself sad but it's been way to long. My family is important to me so being away that long makes me sad. At least, my kids are still young so when they are a little older when we do travel back to Canada they will remember the trip meeting their cousins and my friends and the rest of my East Coast family. That way they can see where Mommy came from, the small town I grew up in, the big bad city I moved to when I moved out of my parents house. I think it will be fun to show my children my home town. Man, I miss it now and talking about it makes me miss it even more. You don't think you miss something until it's gone. It's so true!!! I will be coming home soon and hopefully it won't be another 7 years when I finally do. Well now that I miss home I'm going to wallow in my sadness, maybe listen to some music or I may just take a nap. Whatever I end up doing Take care, Peace!!