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MOC 11 - Tell Me A Story

MOC 11 - Tell Me A Story
Mumma848, Jan 25, 2021
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Life. Its never straight forward or simple. We seem to always say “when this happens then everything will be calm” but it just never happens! Things are always happening, changing, moving. After the rough year 2020 was and all the twists, turns and crashes, I was really hoping for a smoother 2021. We were thinking of working towards doing some travels in the caravan, but it was all slow planning in our control. Then Cameron was made redundant. What a blow. The business had a huge downturn in sales last year, and this year they’re anticipating even worse. Fortunately for the business Cameron had done his job so well he’s set things up to run smoothly without him. Unfortunately for him it means his position is no longer necessary to the running of the business.
So now we’ve been thrown into uncharted waters. The redundancy comes with a pay out, so we’re ok for a little while, but then what. Scary. We’ve sat together and talked about our options. First, Cameron could look for a new job. But the problem with that is the lack of jobs available, the number of people looking for jobs, and the possibility of a repeat. Business needing to downsize. Then what? We have the mortgage and loans and living to cover. Second, reduce our expenses. There’s only so much we can do in that area. Selling the house is our best bet here. We’re in a little bit of a boom, if we sell in the boom we could pay out the mortgage, loan and have a bit left over.
So perhaps now is the time to hit the road in the caravan. We’ll have reduced our expenses, live simply and explore! This would give Cameron the opportunity to study- something he’s talked about doing for a few years now but previously we couldn’t work out how to fit that in around full time work and kids. Most courses are available online, so we could travel, and study.
To make the most of the boom we need to sell soon though! Really soon… We have a whole house full of things, so that’s a very daunting prospect to get the house empty enough and fixed up enough to sell and for us to live in a caravan. But we have done similar before. We packed up and moved interstate with 2 kids and pregnant with 3rd in 2 months. We packed up and moved towns with 3 young kids in 3 months. So while this seems impossible, we have done it before and can do it again.
A new phase in life. Life is full of phases, we move through them at different times, that’s all this is. A new phase. A new chapter. We’ve had our young renting late teen phase, married building house double income no kids phase, kids mortgage working full time and stay at home mum phase. Now it looks like it might be time for the student traveling phase- with kids!

Scary, but also exciting!

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