My brother had his second baby this Wednesday. Very exciting! My nephew stayed the night with me a couple nights while my brother stayed with his wife at the hospital. Despite the latest round of snow and ice we did make it up to the hospital so that he could see his new little sister. Here are some pictures of what town looked like this
It’s the last day of the month. Kind of hard to believe. Time really does go by fast. I know it’s been snowing like crazy all throughout the Midwest, including where I live, so I thought I do a round up up of winter related posts (or things you can do to prevent boredom.) Mr. CBB writes How We Cash in On Unused Clutter in
I hope you’ve all had a good week and have an even better weekend! I’m thinking of going to see Lone Survivor this weekend. I haven’t been to the movie theater in years and my Mom keeps raving about how great this movie is. Has anyone seen it? Other than a pretty uneventful weekend around here. Good Blog Posts From the Week My favorite post
I hope you all had a great week and have an even better weekend. This was actually a pretty good week for me. I feel like I got a lot accomplished this week for change. Hopefully I can keep this pace the rest of the year. Here are some posts I enjoyed from the week: Lance @ Money Life & More just posted a monstrous
I love the holidays but I’m kind of glad all of the madness is over. I’ve probably been to at least ten family dinners in the last two weeks. I love seeing my family and all, but I’m also ready for things to start getting back to normal. As the girls and I begin to settle back into our routines we’ve been hit with yet
I hope you all had an amazing Holiday. I’ve spent the last week spending time with my family and spent all day yesterday cleaning up messes! My girls got way too many toys and now I’m trying to figure out where to put them. I’m back to work today though and have a lot of catching up to do! My girls are at their Dad’s
Every week I share a few personal finance articles that I have enjoyed reading. Here are a few great ones from this week! Brock at Clever Dude writes When Should Kids Start Buying Christmas Gifts? I don’t know what the right answer to that is but my three and five year old daughters love to pick out gift for others. (Not that they’re buying the gifts
Oh shoot. I just realized today is Friday the 13th, 2013. Is that bad? Anyways, I thought I’d share some of my favorite blog posts from the week with you. Here are some posts I thought were great and that I think you’d like, too. Be sure to check them out! Matt @ Mom and Dad Money answers an important question: Should Young Investors Really
I love this time of year. The anticipation of the next few month’s financial boosts always gets me feeling good. Once we’ve gone through those, then summer is right around the corner. So, what am I talking about? In February we get our annual bonus at work. In March, it’s our annual raises, and at our house we usually get a tax return about that
I was doing some analysis the other day about my family’s spending patterns and noticed something. Since 2004, our spending hasn’t increased when I look at our monthly budget. In 2012, we are on track to keep our fixed expenses at 43% of our after tax, after investment income. That means that, after we’ve contributed to our 401K’s, invested for our daughter’s college and paid
