Mom has today and tomorrow off, hooray for her, and me. It’s nice to have her around on a Saturday. This will be her first one off and she’ll be able to go see the boys play soccer for the first time this year. The littlest one just came down and we’re trying to get him to go get his spelling words and study one more time for his test this morning. His brother of course, is still sleeping. Getting the older one up in the mornings is about as hard as winning the lottery.
Work’s going ok, I’m cautiously optimistic about the year  (I’m pretty much where I forecasted to be for almost 4 months into the year) although I need to hire a new person for the Texas market fast. Both my partners leave for Italy this evening for some meetings, get back in a week, and then leave again on the 30th for Spain. I’ve managed to avoid both these trips but will be in Italy in September for sure and maybe Spain as well. Now, I know you’re all thinking what do I mean when I say “I’ve managed to avoid both these trips” as who wouldn’t want to go to Italy and Spain. Don’t get me wrong as I enjoy both countries very much, however at this time of the year (1/3 of the way in), we’re in a critical stage where we need to stay on track or the entire year can fall apart pretty fast. If I go out of the country for almost 3 weeks and am out of touch with the daily decisions that need to be made, (you wouldn’t believe what challenges pop up daily when you have 40 different states) a lot can go wrong. My number one job is to make sure that the Company makes money and is profitable. To do that, revenues or sales need to stay on track as planned. In the fall, we’ll be in a much more stable situation revenue wise, and it’ll be “less risky” for me to be gone. Besides, September is the best time to be in Europe anyhow.
I do need to go to New York the first week of May and have a day trip to San Diego squeezed in before then. I will also need a day trip to San Francisco and Dallas within the next 30 days as well.
Bad storms in the midwest yesterday, I don’t know how people deal with those tornado’s. As I’ve said before, Colorado is really a pretty darn good state to live in. It’s a little frosty this morning but supposed to warm up into the 60’s.
We’re praying for some divine financial intervention once again (usually need to about this time of the month) as we’re still back upped with medical bills and other unexpected expenses. Oh well, just another day. Sure would be nice to come across $100K in one lump sum to get out of debt as then we’d actually be able to live on what we make. We, like lots of people, make good money but end up just paying the interest on all our debt each month so we’re “stuck in the rut” as we say around here. The banks are getting rich off of us as we pay each month, never miss a payment, but the balance never goes down! All we can do is keep plugging away. At least we’re not the government who owes $14 trillion dollars! (it takes about 31,000 years for your heart to beat 1 trillion times!) but then again they can just print more money whenever they like, hmmmmm, maybe we need a printing press, (just kidding as who knows who reads this!).
The oldest is up and needs to leave for school in 28 minutes. We just discovered he really hasn’t studied for his spelling test all week! He knows he needs to get 100% (our rule around here) or he loses some playtime over the weekend. He’ll probably ace it as he’s pretty darn smart. Sometimes we wish he couldn’t “skate” by as easy as he does. Sometime he’s going to need to learn that life isn’t always that easy and you can’t leave things to the last minute. He’s usually pretty good about studying but I don’t think he’s challenged enough in school. I just ran him through his words and he of course has them all correct.
We’re thankful we’re healthy, happy and have a roof over our heads and food on the table, and that all of you are also hopefully doing well. Remember, if you don’t stop trying, you can’t fail. So, be thankful for what you have and have a great day.
God bless,