all the grown-ups, raise your hands...
The husband and I sometimes find ourselves pondering and musing why our marriage works so well when so many others do not. We have our moments of disagreement, of course, but nothing that is foundation shaking. We don’t fight about money and/or sex, the two most heavily debated issues in marriages (per most research) and we find that after more than six years of marriage we are sill blissfully and happily married. Often times we joke about not fighting about money, that how can you really fight about something you don’t have an overwhelming excess of?
My internet home page is MSN, and this is today’s top story, “How Many Is Too Many?” The article begins with, “Credit card use in the U.S. is growing, with 14% of Americans holding more than 10 cards, a survey by one of the giant credit-reporting agencies has found. That's up from 2004, when 10% had more than 10 cards. The study, released today by Experian, identified two groups of heavy card users: the 14% who own more than 10 cards and another, at times overlapping, 14% who use more than 50% of the credit available to them. This last group alone holds an average of nearly seven cards each, two more than in 2004.”
Maybe that’s why people fight about money – 10 credit cards, can you even begin to imagine? Perhaps you can, I don’t know. We have one, we use it for online purchases and usually pay it off at the end of the month but have been known, in the past, to carry balances when there were big items (such as airlines tickets) that had to be bought. But 10 credit cards - that would put stress on anyone, let along a married couple. While I found the article overwhelming I am also not all that surprised, I guess.
For a quick update on our life: Things are moving along in our home, we continue to live in this state of flux, not really sure what we are doing, where we are going. We need to make some decisions about what we want to do so that we have a nursery ready for Miss Bailey, but don’t want to place any undue expenses on the church should we move in the next couple of months. Ms. Bailey had a check-up and is healthy and fine and we are both doing well, just pulling into the final stretch, about 10-11 more weeks to go. The husband has been accepted into a Doctorate program, I am so proud of him I could burst and I so admire his intellect, dedication and enthusiasm for schoolwork! I told him, getting a doctorate is something that only grown-ups do. I suppose we are gown-ups. Maybe having a baby will finally make us feel like we are…who knows!
My internet home page is MSN, and this is today’s top story, “How Many Is Too Many?” The article begins with, “Credit card use in the U.S. is growing, with 14% of Americans holding more than 10 cards, a survey by one of the giant credit-reporting agencies has found. That's up from 2004, when 10% had more than 10 cards. The study, released today by Experian, identified two groups of heavy card users: the 14% who own more than 10 cards and another, at times overlapping, 14% who use more than 50% of the credit available to them. This last group alone holds an average of nearly seven cards each, two more than in 2004.”
Maybe that’s why people fight about money – 10 credit cards, can you even begin to imagine? Perhaps you can, I don’t know. We have one, we use it for online purchases and usually pay it off at the end of the month but have been known, in the past, to carry balances when there were big items (such as airlines tickets) that had to be bought. But 10 credit cards - that would put stress on anyone, let along a married couple. While I found the article overwhelming I am also not all that surprised, I guess.
For a quick update on our life: Things are moving along in our home, we continue to live in this state of flux, not really sure what we are doing, where we are going. We need to make some decisions about what we want to do so that we have a nursery ready for Miss Bailey, but don’t want to place any undue expenses on the church should we move in the next couple of months. Ms. Bailey had a check-up and is healthy and fine and we are both doing well, just pulling into the final stretch, about 10-11 more weeks to go. The husband has been accepted into a Doctorate program, I am so proud of him I could burst and I so admire his intellect, dedication and enthusiasm for schoolwork! I told him, getting a doctorate is something that only grown-ups do. I suppose we are gown-ups. Maybe having a baby will finally make us feel like we are…who knows!
posted by Anna at
11:14 AM
1 Comments:
Ah, Anna, you two will never be all grown up to me! (sorry) but you know your 20's aren't all that great when you consider college, working while going to school, love relationship that work or fail, friendships that aren't that important anymore and look at what growing up brings! A baby and all the excitement of a new life you are being blessed to grow and care for! Love you two!
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