Embarrassed at Myself
It's 12:54pm and I'm wishing it was bed time. Of all that has happened so far today, it's the generous outpouring and the near collision with the reckless driver at the grade school that has me thinking. We live in a low-income neighborhood. About half of our neighbors are home owners, with the other half being high turnover rentals and a couple of crazy college houses on the block to make life interesting. Our grade school has an 87% qualification for free/reduced lunches. I sometimes feel badly. We drive a very old car, I coupon and cook from scratch. We wait til the last possible moment to hit the thrift store when the seasons change because money is just always that tight. Christmas is quite stressful, car insurance is due that month also, so - you know. I get jealous, though I know I should not, of our peers that seem to do so much better. We have more children, less education and at least as much debt than many people we know. We are working on the debt