Well, I have been laying low waiting to make it through the birthday madness. Finally all the parties are done! We still have one more birthday, but mom and dad will be treating us to dinner that night, so hopefully we can get the resturant to give us a cupcake to stick a candle in!

I am now offically the parent of a driving teenager. Pray for me! (Really!) The license is hot off the press, so I need to call the insurnace company tomorrow and see how much it will kill me!

Still trying to keep a tournaquet on the bleeding. I did find a 2.9% card to toss some more of the astronomical AmEx onto. That will certainly help!

Hopefully the next few months will be financially quiet with a little coasting and some chipping away of Christmas presents!

I have stopped the bleeding!! Okay, call me crazy, but I am so excited that our debt WENT DOWN FINALLY!! Even with adding the van repair (which DH will need to cover if we do'nt get it paid off by the beginning of November or we will be charged interest) our total debt number went DOWN!! This is the first time in longer than I can remember that we have not incurred any new debt! This month we have 3 birthdays to contend with, but I am determined to keep the number going backward!!

Yesterday was Mom and Dads 50th Anniversary! We had a great time with family and friends. How amazing they are!