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The time is here »

My wife has been going to school to become a teacher, and now her time to start student teaching has arrived. What does this mean for us? Well, it’s actually quite substantial. It means she had to quit her full time job, which also provided all our family insurance needs, so she can take over [...]

Some changes to our emergency fund »

Over the last week, I moved and made a modification to our emergency fund. First, the magic number everyone throws around it having $1,000 for an emergency fund. Well, I’ve decided to bump it up to $1,500. This decision was made a few weeks ago when I had to use $500 of it. It seemed [...]