Thanks you all!!! I do feel pretty good lately. \:\) Of course now that I say that, I'll take a turn for the worse!!!

Just got the kids hair cut. They look adorable. D8 gets her girl scout picture tonight so she should look cute! I'm going to get mine cut tomorrow. I have way too long hair now looks wild so I'm going to go shoulder-length (I know you guys are fascinated with that). \:\)

Question for anyone that knows the legal D stuff more than me (which is everyone I think) \:\) The L wanted me to figure out expenses and it's about $4000 a month for bills, that includes all the house/utility/phone bills, my $200 for groceries, $100 for homeschooling, and not too much extra. She told me to put in spending $ so I put maybe $50 for movies and eating out which you know I haven't been doing. That works out to $48,000 for me and the kids and H makes $87,000 unless he's gotten a promotion this year (which I hope). My question is it that going to be a huge #--is $48,000 way out of line for what H makes? I think the only way I could reduce expenses is to sell the house which I was hoping not to do. I could probably save on taxes and insurance that way although not on the actual monthly payment, and I probably won't have to pay much if any taxes anyway, but I was hoping to keep the kids' life as much the same as I possibly could. Our mortgage payment is $800 and it's about that much to rent in this town.

I guess I will email H tonight re: the bedroom thing. Maybe I'll post later and give a rough draft, and will try to strong but polite probably? Have to do groceries and girl scouts and try to fit in a little bit of homeschooling too of course! \:\) Karen

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