Day five - money is not everything.... But it sure is nice!

So the intent of this whole project is not to just air our dirty laundry, but lets just face the facts, our money has been funtastic this year!
To start it off, as I discussed in the last post, medical stuff has been a big part of the last couple of years. With medical "stuff" comes medical bills, and they are not cheap! With Dr visits, medications, tests, procedures, and now Iowa city visits and test there have caused us to rack up a pretty penny! When all the medical stuff started to happen this year, and the bills started racking up, we had not yet paid off everything from my leg injury. To top it all off we had not paid the medical bills for when we had Ali either, and there is no return policy on that ;) LOL!
It is not just the medical bills that cause an issue. With being sick, time away from work cost too. For every hour I was not at work was an hour I was not being paid for. Also, in the commission world, it also cost new set ups. With my medical problem stress causes the problem to worsen. So, to show as this wheel goes round; I would get sick and have to miss work, I would stress over the fact that I was not working, then start feeling worse and worse, and just miss the next day, and the cycle continued.....
Here is what all this leads up to. I have been able to support my family on just my income for years now. For all this to happen which put my family in a financial bind has been a very sad place to be. I was doing it, I was keeping us secure, and it all fell to crap.
Today, about an hour into work, my first account agreeded AND signed today. I said something a couple days ago that I had a couple accounts agree, but never heard anything back, this one signed! Nothing big, nothing grand, but it was like 50 pounds was lifted off of my shoulders. Again, nothing big, but it made me feel safe and secure again. Now I did not make enough for my family to move to the islands and live comfortably in a bungalow on the beach for the rest of our lives, but hey, it is a start. A good day, lets push for another one tomorrow. Until then.........