pay my Daddy back the money I owe him for building our house

I am currently at $225.00. I have been so busy lately and haven’t been able to post in a while. Life has sped up a little and I have custody of my niece again. She is now going to school where I teach ~ a much better situation all the way around. I am kind of rethinking some things in my life and what is important. Truly important. This may affect my life list! :-) Look for changes, maybe?!

$140.00 towards this goal after tomorrow’s deposit. Slooooowly working towards the first $500.00. I would like to hand him a check on his birthday or for Christmas as an extra surprise!

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I was able to set aside $53 dollars for this goal. Not much, but it’s a start and more than I had set aside before the challenge. The challenge has left me with some really good habits which I hope will help me with this goal as I continue on…

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that this goal is going to be about ten times harder than my challege goal for my mother. Having been sick, I’ve spent alot on antibiotics this past week…

Hopefully next month will be easier!

Don’t know exactly where to put this money right now, but I have to start doing this or it will never get done.

He’s definately not going to want to take the money. I know how he is.

I only know that this is a must right now for me…

He is smart, loving, and so giving. He built our new house a year ago. He totally built it from the ground up himself, only contracting out the things he didn’t have a license for (electrical, etc.). He even did the plumbing and the cabinets. It is truly a beautiful home ~ two story, red brick ~ just what we always wanted.

He, however, has never had a new home and has worked so hard all of his life to provide for my mother and my sisters and I to have a wonderful childhood. He is almost 65 years old and is still working like he did when he was 25. I want to pay him back the final amount that we still owe him, which is around $4,000. He does not want to take it, because this is just the kind of person that he is. I will pay him back this money, though. He really needs it to put into retirement, which is not far away. The plan is to pay him back in increments of $500. I know he’ll have a hard time accepting it, but it is a must for me. My hubby has too much on his plate financially, so this has to be a priority for me. I don’t want him to have to shoulder this responsibility, as well.

I will start this next month….hopefully $100.00 at a time, which will be super slow. But, it is a start. I love and care about him too much to put this off any longer.

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