Looking forward....

So I've been in a bit of a funk this week. Lots of personal stuff, friends having lots of personal stuff...you get the idea. So I'm going to pull myself up by the bootstraps and get back into a groove. The good news is that on the financial front, things are AWESOME!

DH found out a couple of days ago what his bonus will be...sounds like it will be a really good one! So, on Thursday, we'll be able to finish off the LOC, finish off the Home Depot, and start on the VISA. Our goal is still to have everything paid off by November, but we are both hoping it will be sooner than that. I'm looking forward to it, whenever it is!

We figured out the other night that we will have given ourselves almost a $10,000 a year raise by the time this is all said and done. That's not all from debt....most of it is, but some of it came from getting rid of some things that we don't really need. The "Latte Factor" as they say.

I started reading a book called "The Family CFO". It has a ton of business jargon (duh) which means that I have skimmed over much of the first couple of chapters....no offense to the authors, I'm just a simple minded girl with no background in business. Anyway...one thing that I really liked and that I badly want to start in my marriage is a yearly retreat. The idea is that many businesses will have yearly retreats, some for a couple of hours, some for a weekend, some for anything in between. Those retreats are spent away from the business where there will be no interruptions and the focus is purely on whatever topic they come up with...usually goals or motivation, etc. This book talks about combining the yearly retreat with a weekend getaway. What a fabulous idea! So - we go on a getaway, just the two of us, discuss our goals for 90 minutes and spend the rest of the time just being together, reconnecting, and having fun. I talked about it with DH and he seemed to like the idea also. I'd like to make it an anniversary trip but that may not happen this year...unless we can pay everything off by September 19! Anyway - this is something I'd really like to do - I thought it was a great idea!