our personal finance story

2009 Goals: Financial Freedom Update

Well, it’s June and I’m giving my first financial update! You can read our 2009 Financial Goals here…

You all are overwhelming me with your amazing comments of congrats! Thank you SO MUCH!! We still have…

Getting married at the young age of 19, straight out of the house doesn’t give you enough time…

Rewind to right after our vows in June. Paul and I both had excellent jobs. I was lucky…

T was brought into our lives in July, 1999. We were so excited and loved being parents. The…

Even though we had debt, we were in good positions with our career to pay stuff off. Then…

I have talked about my BFF before. I love her to death and she and I have been…

New job, new home, new people to live without… We closed on our home in early February, 2005….

Yeah, we didn’t exactly live like paupers. We went on vacation. While that was paid with cash, we…

That summer of 2006, we were surprised with a blessing – our third pregnancy!! We knew (or maybe…