It has been a long week!  We returned home on Tuesday morning from visiting my family in Illinois for a week.  I miss my family but I really needed to get home and get my kids back in to a normal routine.

It was wonderful staying at my mom’s house, seeing all my family most of which I haven’t seen in 7 yrs.  It really made me want to move closer to home.  Tony and I are both open to settling down anywhere.  As much as I love Winchester (VA), I am sure I will grow to love anywhere else I live.

Right now we are a 12 hr drive away from home.  Kind of a lot when you have 4 kids.  It would be nice to live either really close or just closer.  Tony and I REALLY want a lot of land.  We were very sad to see a new listing in Southern Illinois for 18 acres and a 4 bedroom house for like 129k.  Tony is committed to his job for another 2 yrs.  2 things, if we had a down payment and Tony wasn’t committed to work we so would have tried to buy that house.

Over the last week Tony and I have made some financial and personal decisions for our future.  We want to try and get our finances and lives in order in the next 2 yrs.  That way when Tony is “free” to go we will be able to buy a place.  Neither of us want to move again unless it is in to a home we buy.  No more renting, if we are going to rent, we will just stay where we are.

In addition to our desire to buy a new home we also want to go back to school.  I have ponder this decision a lot over the last week.  I feel I don’t have enough time to do the basic household duties now how will I be able to manage going to school full time?  Between being a mom and trying to enjoy my hobby and trying to have a mildly successful online business and keeping a clean and organized house I just don’t know where to squeeze anything else in.  I am however determined to do something with my future.

I plan on going back to work once all the kids are in school full time, so we are talking about another 5 yrs or so.  Since I will not be able to go full time, well maybe won’t be able to, it may take me the 5 yrs to get a degree.  Tony wants to go to school to get a nursing degree.  He is very smart and I believe this will be a breeze for him.  I on the other hand feel I have a brain block.  LOL!  I did some of the sample admission tests, reading, writing and math and the only thing I aced was the math portion.  I am pretty clueless when it comes to reading and writing.  In addition I hate public speaking.  Oh this is going to be bad.  But when it is time to get back in to work I want to do something other than being a server at a restaurant or working for a bank.  I want a degree in something.  I am going to get a degree in Early Education, well at least that is the plan for now.

So we have made some changes and decisions for our future and I am excited to see how it all plays out!

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