Day 26 ~ Money

Today = If you had $1,000,000 to spend, how would you spend it?

You know you're indecisive when you get can't figure out the best way to spend your fictional money. lol  Also, since they say I have it "to spend," I'm just assuming that taxes have already been paid on this. =)

*This gif cracks me up!  Dave Chappelle is a funny one. =)

Going with my first thoughts and breaking it into sections...

1. Tithe the first 100,000.
2. Pay off my mortgage and fix up my house (wood floors and a few other improvements) with the second 100,000!  (Then have a party to celebrate being debt-free!)
3. Pay off Tiffany and Sarah's student loans, then donate whatever was left of the third 100,000 to Ransomed Heart and/or a friend who needed it in that season.
4. Adopt twin newborn babies with the fourth 100,000, then hire an attorney to help me set up a Will and a Trust that leaves my money to them when I die.
5. Spend $50,000 to get my Masters + either my MBA or a PhD in Counseling, then set aside 25k each to T&C to go specifically toward a college education (or trade school). (J&K are already covered).
6. The next $400,000 = Hire someone to clean my house twice a month while being a stay-at-home Mom and full-time student through the first 3-4 years of my kids' lives... then open a private practice Christian counseling service.
7. I would put my lovely twins into a good Preschool then a K-12 Christian school, (the tuition would add right up, but I would be working and have no mortgage, so whatevs - worth it!)  I would keep working and slowly expand to hire other counselors to work with/under me.  
8. Stay at my house OR sell it and move to a similar-priced new home in Broken Arrow (in which case, I'd have opened my practice there, too).  Always live in a fully paid-off house.
9. Use my work income for routine expenses and savings and investments and such.  
10. Use the last $100,000 of the happy gift or winnings purely as a lil' vacation fund for fun family cruises and trips! =)

Hmm, that was a fun little fictional game that doesn't take into account my personality's need for peace and ability to change my mind 20 times about some of the more personal life decisions. lol  While I don't crave marriage the way I once did, I also don't feel much freedom to take big risks without the safety net of a second income (or a million-dollar bonus fund), and sometimes that makes it hard to figure out what I really want and whether it's worth pursuing.  Why must everything be sooo costly!??  But in the end, my ultimate hope isn't in anything on this list, so that's happy news!