Money, Love, and Change

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!“Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.”
Author: Theodore T. Hunger

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We’re going camping, and we are all pretty excited.  I am falling a little behind today, but will be back tomorrow.  Enjoy your Friday!

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OK, I am a sucker.  I wanted free access to my credit score, and when I got the offer from WaMu for a card that had free access to FICO scores, I signed up.
There were no balance transfer fees, so I did a small balance transfer from a higher interest (3.99%) credit card.  I planned [...]

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It’s not quite 10am, and my 2-year-old son is down for a nap (he usually sleeps in the early afternoon).  He has a gym class at 10:30am, but won’t be going.  The one part of traveling that I don’t like is trying to get the kid back into a routine.
I follow 3 rules to help [...]

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Although we were a little worried about the cost of traveling, it was a wonderful weekend.  My grandma is in her 80’s, but she is still very active.  She had a pillow fight with my son on Saturday (not an all-out pillow fight, but still an official pillow fight) - this alone made the trip [...]

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We are getting ready to travel to NY to see my mom and great-grandma.  They haven’t seen the kid since January, so we are really looking forward to the visit.  I hope that everyone really has a nice weekend and gets to spend some quality time with their family!
I won’t be dropping Entrecards, but I [...]

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I’m just going to say that I have a real problem with these projections.  Articles like this one at MSN try to put a salary tag on a stay-at-home mom.
Here’s my salary projection for the stay-at-home mom: Priceless.
Guess what?  I would also put the priceless tag on the stay-at-home dad, the working dad, and the [...]

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Both my husband and I are science geeks, but we try not to drill too much science into our 2-year-old. I thought we were doing a pretty good job, until I looked in the bathtub tonight.
We have bathtub crayons (a guaranteed fun bath!), and I noticed the molecular structure for water on the shower [...]

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I hope to post later today, but want to continue with my idea of a thoughtful quote:
“The only difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way in which we use them.”
Author: Unknown

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I have mentioned in some previous posts about how my husband’s old job is being relocated to China.  He recently found a job with the same company in a different building, and things are going ok.  The commute is still long though - about 70 miles round-trip per day.  He used to commute to work [...]

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