The Cox Family

Research is always fun! I get the opportunity to research things for work on a regular basis, but now I have the opportunity to do some research to determine the next best steps for our family. At this point we are weighing our options. Is Florida the best place for us, or are we headed to North Caolina? Only time will tell. In the mean time, we will do research to find out a few things: Can Mackenzie still Virtual school? Will Madison keep her IEP? Where can we afford to live? Where do we want to be? What is best for us. As we continue working through the process, we will update here, but it is going to be a long process, so I won't bore you with the details there! On our path to making a decision, we know there is one thing we must do. We have to commit to becoming debt free. We need to adopt the principle to Live like no one else lives now, so that we can live, and give, like no one else in the future. To do this, we will commit to the Dave Ramsey Financial Peace Uni...

Over the last few years, Mackenzie has been the victim of bullying. this past January, we had had enough. We decided to pull her out of public school with the intention to homeschool her. We were planning to use Easy Peasy All-in-One Homeschool. The reason behind this was that she could work at her own pace and be able to finish multiple grades per year. All of her lessons were all planned out and on the website. Ultimately we went with Marion Virtual because the homeschool office talked us into it. I am still not 100% sure that we like the virtual, but that's ok. She started about 3.5 weeks after the start of the term and worked her tail off. She finished the term about 2 weeks after the end of the regular school year. We finally got all of her grades and she's good to go. She's now an 8th grader. She's asking to be moved to Florida Virtual because that way she can still get her high school diploma and all that jazz. We have major decisions coming up and we do not ...

Everyday in our lives, we must make decisions. Some of those decisions are easy and some are hard. Some are influenced by others, and some are made just because. As we look back over the last 10 or so years, more of our decisions have been based off of someone else telling us what we should or shouldn't do. When it isn't that the decision was made because someone made a comment stating that they didn't agree with what we had done. It's a hard thing, being an adult. We have 2 lives that we have to protect and do what is best for. We have some major decisions to make in the coming weeks. Here's a glimpse into the last 10 years of our lives: 2007 we purchased the house I lived in when I was in high school. It was not an ideal situation. Our interest rate drove the monthly price up extremely high. We ended up with a home we couldn't afford. 2008 we made the decision to get out from under the above mentioned home. We moved back to  Florida. We had not seen the ho...