2023 Highlights: ● WE Celebrated Luca's first birthday My favorite event from the entire year was celebrating Luca's birthday. The planning took months because finding a venue that would allow for our headcount (we both have hugenormous families) was no easy feat. But the universe came ...
2022 Year Review & 10 Goals I Have For 2023
How is it a new year already?! In sitting down to write this post I realized just how much I had to share. Let's get right to it! 2022 Highlights: ● WE GREW OUR FAMILY Baby Luca joined our family in February and has been eating his way through our hearts and garbage bins ever since. To ...
10 Steps I Took To Financially Prepare for Having a Baby
Having kids transforms the way you think about the future. You’re no longer living only for yourself, or only for yourself and your partner. A child creates its own set of obligations and responsibilities, and nowhere is that more true than when it comes to finances. Below are 10 steps my ...
9 Financial Goals I’m Making This Year
1. Pay off all debt (outside of mortgage) I remember several years ago, looking at a Google Sheets report I built that showed me exactly when I would have all my loans and notes paid off. The date on that report read August 2022. I still remember how daunting; how far away and unattainable ...
2020 Financial Review
Hi, remember me? It's been a minute since my last post. Most of my writing breaks in the past have been due to pure laziness but this one was warranted. Not long after the re-launch of my blog in May, the murder of George Floyd happened here in my beloved city of Minneapolis. The civil uprising ...