Category: Finance
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The Joys of Budgeting During Change
I’m writing this as much for me as I am for you. Preachn’ to myself, everyone! Planning for the future is hard. Next chapter’s structure, funding said next chapter, God throwing instruction into my plans, doing life with another person… it all is hard to manage and get flowing into the same direction. It doesn’t…
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How We’re Improving Our Finances in 2018
When Brooks and I started our life together, we had a very specific plan in place for our future – career and financially speaking. There were many components to that plan – debt freedom, investing, business pursuits, farming, and what I call life living pursuits (travel & recreation). Slowly but surely we’ve been whittling away…
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Established: How We Attain Our Goals
Brooks and I have always been goal keepers [notice I said goal keepers and not goal setters]. About the time we married, we wrote out our life goals. Family goals, starting & growing a profitable business, growing our own food, paying debt off, raising a large herd of livestock, goals regarding our quality of life, a trip to Wyoming, and few financial…
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Project Debt Freedom
<a href=”https://www.bloglovin.com/blog/18421295/?claim=gb2bgjvbpbq”>Follow my blog with Bloglovin</a> Money and the simple life. It’s time to talk turkey… Project Debt Freedom is on… again. Brooks and I have always been weird when it comes to this topic – of money and keeping up with the Jones’. We are that weird couple that enjoys a simple life and…
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Infertility: Our 10 Year Anniversary
This month marks a whopping 10 years that we’ve been waiting for our little bundle(s) of joy. That’s 10 years of waiting and wondering. Years of trying countless avenues with which to get pregnant (I mean how many can there be, right?!?!). Exactly 10 years ago, we fearfully and yet excitedly stopped all of our…
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From the Pit to the Mountaintop and In Between
God is good. That’s all there is to it. The Holy Spirit has brought to mind the things I am to share with you today. Coffee in hand. My journal, bible, and heart are wide open. I’m ready to bring you to a level transparency that shows how in my weakness, I am made strong….
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Stay at Home Wife… It’s not old fashioned but a PASSION.
It’s official. I’m a Stay at Home Wife {SAHW}. Of course I’m hoping that a promotion is coming my way to Stay at Home Mom {SAHM}. But for now, my job description is everything but parenting. I finished up my last day at my paying job yesterday. I’ve always had a hard time transitioning from job…