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A mini family reunion

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Well it looks like we have a big family get together this weekend. My husbands niece is coming to visit from Chicago with her new husband. It will be her first visit to Canada since she was married in June.

So … several family members are meeting up at the in-laws this weekend for a “family reunion” of sorts. I’m not sure what is all planned, but I’m sure there will be lots of food and likely at least one argument … or two.

I’m hoping that while we’re in the country we can get everyone together and go out for a hike. I got my husband some Gaerne Boots and I’d love him to get a chance to break them in on a good hike and that area would be perfect for it. I guess we’ll see what the weather is like. I know it’s supposed to rain on Saturday, but Sunday is supposed to be nice … of course that’s when the family reunion is going to be going on ..

It’s going to be a busy weekend. Oh and then on Tuesday it’s my Birthday! I don’t have any plans yet. I guess I’ll see how I feel after the busy weekend before I decide what I want to do on my birthday.

What are you doing on the long weekend?

My husband is on temporary layoff again

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My husband is on one of his temporary lay off weeks again. This is the second one this summer and if history repeats itself he’ll have two more weeks or temporary layoffs at the end of the year. Not very good when you don’t have much money to work with to pay the bills to begin with as it is!

So it seems that every time my husband has one of his weeks off he goes out of town. He’s at his parents house right now helping them out by fixing things around their house.

Part of me doesn’t mind him going away and helping out his family but part of me wants him to stick around and well … I guess get some stuff done around our house too. I mean … I’ve been living in a house with stalled renovations for uh … six years now and my husband all of a sudden has all this extra time on his hands .. maybe just maybe he could work with me to put the ceiling up in our living room dining room? Nope? Nah … he just called and he’s running off to some store to get some polaris sportsman parts. I have no idea what they are but he needs them.

He was supposed to be home tomorrow evening but now he says he might not be back until Thursday … Big Sigh … Oh well maybe we’ll get some work done this weekend.

Hunting for a good life insurance policy

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So my husband and I have been talking this evening about how we do not have life insurance. It’s not like we do anything dangerous like stunt driving or jumping from airplanes or anything, but maybe it would be a good idea to have life insurance.

So … I’m starting to look into some policies and from what I can tell it looks like I’m most interested in trying to find the best term life insurance premiums. Hopefully I can find some policies with decent prices. My husband and I don’t have a lot of spare cash these days so we don’t even know if we can afford something like life insurance … so we’ll have to see what happens.

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