A lot of things have happened since I last posted. Basically, due to the girls' health concerns, my wife had to quit her job to keep the kids out of day care. Needless to say this has severely upset the budget. I think I've got things lined back out, but there isn't any room for extra payments on anything which is depressing. I've been taking up side work to get extra money to help pay on this stuff. So far, I've been able to make about $1300 since this all went down -- so lets hope I can keep this up this year.
During this we did have a couple bright spots though. Some friends of ours pooled together money to give us some cash and a bunch of gift cards to groceries and supermarkets. All in all, we got a few hundred dollars, so we're putting that to good use getting food and trying to make it stretch it as far as we can.
I ended up just banking all of my tax return (which was off by $1500...stupid turbo tax). I'm going to use that to pay off the new medical bills I talked about in my last post(which have started to come in btw), and use the rest to pay down our hospital loan after the dust settles.
Friendly reminder: if anyone wants to help out you can do so with the paypal link to the right :).
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