Freedom! And a plan...

Yesterday I paid off 2 of my student loans. I'm now down to 6. I know that sounds like a lot left to pay off, but the balance down to less than $34,000 from closer to $50,000 in 1 year. (Can you believe that I finished school a year ago?! Wow! It flew by!!) I'm quite pleased. (And I don't even like Dave Ramsey!) I know that without my education I would not make nearly the wage that I do so I try to stay positive about making those huge payments each month. We have saved a lot of money by living with Susie for the past couple of months (thanks again, Susie!) and we have come to a BIG decision. Our tenant in the Noblesville house, Rochelle, is moving out and getting married at the end of June. We did not find a house that really spoke to us during our hunt so we are going to move back to our little place in Noblesville. It is a pretty big sacrifice from what we really wanted, but it will allow us to really knock out these student loans and save a lot of money each month on top of that. It will be awesome to live on just one of our salaries and save all of the other person's compensation. I wish that I could say that we are exciting about this responsible decision. We are not. We are disappointed that we did not find a place that really caught our hearts. That being said, we are financial people and we understand how large of an investments a home is. We feel confident that we can rent out Noblesville whenever we decide to move on- whether that is in the Indianapolis area or God-willing somewhere a little more exciting. I know. It makes for a really unexciting end to our journey. Stay tuned, though, as there is always something going on. Right?! :)

We will have the carpets replaced and have the interior of the house painted after we return from our July 4th vacation to New York City. Then we will select which of our things will go into the house and what we will keep in storage. Oh, I can hardly stand all of the excitement. (Sarcasm. As I said, neither of us are super keen on this, but it seems to make sense. Sigh. I don't want to be a grown up anymore!)