Money Worries
Sometimes it's good to sit back and take stock. For me, those moments are few and far between, what with the kids and all this study. Still, last week my husband and I managed to find a mutual window of opportunity for one such moment. We got a babysitter in, and booked tickets to a film followed by a table for two at a nice restaurant. Bliss!
Over dinner we got talking. Reminiscing about when we first me (schmaltzy I know!), when we got married, when we had the kids; all those kinda things. Then we talked about where we wanted to be: me a doctor (I hope), and maybe moving somewhere else. Maybe back to New York. Anyway, the running theme of all of this - whether for good or bad - was money.
With me studying, money is at the forefront of both of our minds a lot - generally speaking, not having enough of it. We took a little comfort in the fact that the economy in general is doing pretty badly at the moment; but one of the main features we foresaw for the future was having and spending more money. At the time this was just how we were talking - inadvertently bringing up our finances probably because we were out having a night on the town - but it struck us both later that it was not a little sad that money had infected, albeit quietly, our entire night out; not to mention our aspirations and memories.
Now we might be a little poorer than we want to be right now but (and this'll sound like a cliché) we are so rich in other ways. So we have a mortgage and loans, but I like to think they're perfectly manageable; we have the kids, but they're cheap really, if you're frugal; I'm studying, which doesn't bring in any money, but it is a huge investment in the future. If I can make chiropody work, then I could earn a tidy sum.
The point is we're alright. We have enough money to do much more than get by, and we have a lot more than most. Honestly, I couldn't be happier at the moment, and it's nothing to do with having enough or too little cash. We had our night out - which was great - but I wanna keep that kind of thing as a treat: a special occasion we can grab sometimes. Most of the time I'm happy with my man and my kids, at home within our family. And I'm very grateful for that.
