I'm back at it!

I took a couple of months off and I really need to get back to blogging my finances. I think it keeps me in line and opens my eyes to what's going on with my money when I'm forced to sit at the computer at the end of the day and go through my receipts.

Here's some info on my current status...

I'm currently unemployed. I was downsized on October 30th (effective November 1st) from the insurance office where I'd worked for almost 7 years. After crying about it for a few hours, I had decided to make the best of it and enjoy some time at home with my kids. I would collect severance and continue with my insurance benefits until 1/23/08, so I figured I had plenty of time to find a job. Here I am...3 months later and still no job and now the severance has run out and I'm officially unemployed. I've applied for jobs and either don't hear anything back or get the "thanks, but not thanks". Now I'm getting nervous.

My husband works construction and is usually in charge of jobs out of town. He's currently working on a remodel of a senior living facility about 2.5 hours from here. He leaves at 5:00 on Monday morning and comes home Wednesday night and then leaves at 5:00 on Thursday morning and comes home Friday night for the weekend. He makes good money and it would be enough for our family to live on if we hadn't made so many mistakes in our past (...credit cards, refinances, expensive car payments, no savings...).