It's taken me a few weeks to get over my stunned shock and amazement. God has taken care of us in an unusual way.
It goes back to fil, when we went down to visit him in January at the end there. He asked us to go with him to Cuba for a vacation, he would pay. He is taking his dd to China in the summer, and wanted to do something special with and for us too.
Of course we said yes. I've been kind of stunned by that too. I've not ever even considered that kind of vacation, there is no way we could ever afford such a thing! We will go in March at the end, and first week of April, 2 whole weeks in Cuba with fil.
for the first week, I couldn't even get excited it was so strange, I kept expecting that it wasn't real, that something would happen.
I've been bugged by our debt situation for some time though. It kind of racked up there last year and a half or so, new tires, trips to see mil and fil while mil was ill then she died this summer.
Stuff happens. We paid off the new couch that replaced the one that broke a year and a bit ago, but debt remained and debt tends to snowball. The stove broke this summer.
I finally gave in in early January and cashed in my money from my grandad's inheritance to me which I'd been saving in case dd got married, plus it was our cushion. Didn't feel good--but I knew it was the right thing to do, and it still left us almost 3K in debt. (I did blow 450$ of that inheritance money on the elliptical exersize thingy so I'd at least have something of mine to show for it)
Fast forward.
We needed to get our passports updated ASAP because the process is so long.
We go into the bank to our safe deposit box to get our marriage certificate, and right on top is a bond we had forgotten about, that had matured.
It was a little over 3K. So dh and I gave some back to God, and put the rest on the debt
and we are now debt free.
This is so strange because we never just lose a bond. We have a budgeted system for each bond because our bonds aren't our RRSP (retirement funds), they are used to pay for Christmas, birthdays and car and house insurance which all comes due in Nov/Dec and Jan.
At first I thought, maybe it's not real. But it was. And it was in our names. We just don't remember how it happened. God must have known we would need it, and got us to close our eyes long enough to put it aside for the future.
I couldn't share this at first, I kept pinching myself to see if it was real and it kept me feeling so startled that it was hard to talk about but
here we are.
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Very thankful for paying off our credit card debt
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