If you know what your priorities are in your life then you can map out the rest.
For me and my wife it was always our kids and our family, they were and always will be our priority.
My wife was 18 when we were married and I was 24 , neither one of us had a higher education but we were hard workers and we loved each other so we could figure the rest out as we went.
We enjoyed each other and care less about material things , our dining room table was my folding poker table and folding chairs and were fine with that. Three years later we had our first born, a beautiful baby girl so we figured we should have a house so with no money at all and while my wife was pregnant we bought our first house , not knowing too much about how we would financially do it we dove in because we knew what our priority now was, to raise a family and to give our kids all the love and opportunities we could.
We had some very tough times financially but we loved every minute, we had winter months that I did not know how we were going to pay for the heat or put gas in our car but we plowed ahead singing and bouncing our baby along the way.
We added a son in 1988 and enjoyed watching our kids grow up along with our dog , we had our share of issues and rough roads with surgeries on our young daughter, health issues with our son and the loss of my wife’s mom at far to young of age but through it all we kept to our priorities- our family.
We still lived paycheck to paycheck but our kids now were entering college but we prioritized their education and somehow we did it, we did not want to burden them with the expense of college so we figured it out...somehow.
Looking back we laugh and scratch our heads on how we made it , our car was always used with problems like windows leaking or needed a jump in the morning and we never could afford to go out for a dinner and forget about a vacation but it was ok , we never thought about it and never really ever thought we were even sacrificing-
We just knew what was our priority and we loved each other and loved every day.
And fast forward to 2018 and our kids are grown and married with kids of their and own and my wife of 37 years and we still have the same priority- our kids, our son in law and daughter in law, and our grandkids- OUR FAMILY.
What is your priority?
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