If you are like many single mothers, you are beyond busy. Fast food is convenient and keeps the kids happy, or does it? As a single mother, I have felt most of the time that I was pushing against everything and everyone to prove that I don't have to live as a statistic of a woman in poverty, raising troubled kids while holding down two jobs just to keep food on the table. I am managing, with God's help, to break the mold! I figured if my kids lost one parent on a daily basis already, they did not need to loose another. I don't care what you say, there are abandonment issues to face when you are a child of divorce. So I determined to be at home with my kids, to be daily involved in their lives and to provide a healthy atmosphere for them to grow up in. I am not saying it has been easy! It has been the hardest thing I have ever faced and I have been through quite a lot!
The biggest challenge I have faced is that of being provider and yet being available to my kids. I learned that I can live on much less than most think, yet I knew there was more than just getting by. One of the first steps to financial security, which is having enough monthly coming in to cover your expenses, without you having to work for it, is to see where what you have now is going. I LOVE to eat out, I admit it. Yet, I began to realize that my eating out with my kids 4 or more times a week, even fast food, was making it harder and harder to stay on top of the bills. We complain that we don't make enough or have enough, but excuses don't buy us freedom. Did you know that if you cut back on just one meal out a month that has a cost of $20. that you could save $1,200. in one year? In 5 years you would have $6,000. In ten, $12,000. Besides that, you would have a healthier family.
Are you eating your rent money? How about your money to get out of debt? How about your investment money that could buy you financial security? Are you willing to change to break the mold?
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