Feeling Antsy
Matt has a tell when he is stressed. He is currently pulling at his eye brow. After being together for almost 10 years, I know my husband pretty well. He is stressed. Usually there is a very obvious reason for the stress. We’ve been through some difficult times over the years… we’ve started a business […]
Happy Birthday America
We started the day off lazy – skipping the community parade – but rallied with afternoon swimming, dinner with the in-laws, and fireworks! The boys were completely worn out by the time we got home (an hour after their summer bedtime.) So, apparently, Matt decided NOT to blog while I was out of town… and […]
Birthdays!
We celebrated Zach’s 7th Birthday with dinner at Bennihana’s! His favorite! On the way home, he told me 60 + 60 = 120. And then he told me how he figured it out… 50 + 10 = 60. So if he added 50+50, he got 100. Then he needed to add 10+10 to get 20. […]
New computer
I’m typing this post from my new Mac Book Pro. This, according to Matt, is part of our master plan to become fully mobile. No more desktop computers. ummm…hmmm…. It was not, however, on our master get-out-of-debt plan. But since my desktop computer died yesterday, Matt jumped at the chance to get us (me) a […]
Budgeting
Today I worked on a spreadsheet to determine our best options with timeline to get us to our dream of sailing around the world. I included 5 scenarios – our current mortgage and lifestyle – nothing changes our re-financed mortgage and current lifestyle – nothing else changes moving in June 2013 (which we plan to […]