A Young Wife’s Tale

As I was doing our taxes this year, I tallied up all of our medical expenses for 2009. We spent $12,000. And we didn’t even have any surgeries or hospitalizations.

Suffice it to say, we’ve never been able to go beyond an emergency fund to a savings account with three months of living expenses. Sorry Suze.

I’ve got bad news, and it’s not even health related. Yesterday I was chatting with the receptionist at my part time job about how thankful we are that David still has a job. He is a computer programmer, and he has worked as a contractor for a large company here in Dallas for two years. They got rid of most of their contractors last year. We are blessed that he is still employed, and that even though we have lousy health insurance, we’re grateful because some contracting companies don’t even offer it.