Quit good job with good pay and good people, check.  Now what? Truthfully, I only have ideas at this point.  Let me just share why I appear to have lost my mind. For those of you who commute an hour each way each day and still have the energy to be a good spouse and parent, you are doing better than I.  Please share your secrets.  After nearly two years of driving the 81 corridor I have stacked up quite a pile of husband and father failures - but I have an amazing work ethic! This note is really a reminder for me.  Alone with my thoughts, immediately they tend towards ideating on how to replace this provision for my family.  Artificial urgency is quickly becoming a lure cast out into this void by my work ethic rod.  If I successfully close this financial gap without restoring my marriage and family to health, it should be considered a failure. My focus needs to start with discovering and establishing good habits as spiritual leader, husban...

For us, the first hurdle in stepping out from under the corporate umbrella was figuring out how we were going to cover our health insurance costs. Option 1 was to keep our current health insurance that had previously been provided by Robert's soon-to-be former employer for a mere $1400 plus a month through COBRA. While we accounted for this expense as we counted the costs of taking this step, it seemed like the best place to cut costs. With 5 young and active children, not having some sort of insurance, or insurance substitute, would be irresponsible and too great a financial risk exposure. So, enter the concept of healthcare sharing groups. There are 4 healthcare sharing groups I considered: Liberty HealthShare, Medi-Share, Christian Heathcare Ministries, and Samaritan. I immediately discounted Samaritan because it involved receiving and paying individual payments to and from other members instead of having the managing organization handle this aspect. This seemed too chall...

“How was your day, honey?” “Ok, traffic is backed up again. Oh, and by the way, I quit my job today.” Well, ok then. Here we go. We've talked about it for years, the hour commute, the perpetual exhaustion, how he's missing seeing the kids grow up. The unhealthy, overweight, just plain monotony of middle class life. We actually have been doing pretty well, in some respects. We've saved money and drew up house plans to build our dream house. We even started on site work. I get to stay home and homeschool the kids, an invaluable blessing. He makes good money, at a relatively low stress job, in a nice, safe city. We are living the dream, but how come it feels so...unsatisfying. Maybe this is someone else's dream. We've followed all the rules, got the education, landed the good jobs, took on the mortgage, and it's just not that great. So today, we begin something new. We have a scattering of ideas and skills. Let's see if we can make this into somethin...

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