Money and Finance
It's been a while since I last had a chance to post, almost 3 months in fact. I didn't disappear or anything but was having to deal with medical issues for my son, Lucas. He's one heck of a strong willed kid and whenever he gets out of the NICU I know he's going to be a handful. It's been a crazy wild ride that my wife, son, and I have been on but he's doing a bit better now and hopefully we can keep him stable while we work on his nutrition and get him to grow. The short story is that he has a congential diaphragmatic hernia, CDH, and his diaphragm didn't form right while in utero so some of his organs were in his chest cavity which made his lungs very underdeveloped. It affects about 1 in 2500 kids and unfortunately the survival rate is only about 50%. But Luke is still fighting which is all we can ask for. If you want to follow along with what's going on with him you can check out BabyLukeBlog.wordpress.com.
So I'll be recapping the past few months to get caught up on the juicy details of my portfolio(s) and most importantly dividends. Those dividends act as seed money for investments and will eventually allow my wife and I to reach financial independence. I expect the rate of new capital investments to slow down a bit from my usual pace at least for the next month or so while I build up savings, deal with medical costs, finance a full household expenses since my wife quit her job to be with our son, and since I work in the oil field a little extra buffer won't hurt considering the state of the patch right now. So please bear with me while I get everything up to date between my own spreadsheets, Google spreadsheets, and around the blog.
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Money and Finance
Dividend Update - November 2014
It's been a while since I last had a chance to post, almost 3 months in fact. I didn't disappear or anything but was having to deal with medical issues for my son, Lucas. He's one heck of a strong willed kid and whenever he gets out of the NICU I know he's going to be a handful. It's been a crazy wild ride that my wife, son, and I have been on but he's doing a bit better now and hopefully we can keep him stable while we work on his nutrition and get him to grow. The short story is that he has a congential diaphragmatic hernia, CDH, and his diaphragm didn't form right while in utero so some of his organs were in his chest cavity which made his lungs very underdeveloped. It affects about 1 in 2500 kids and unfortunately the survival rate is only about 50%. But Luke is still fighting which is all we can ask for. If you want to follow along with what's going on with him you can check out BabyLukeBlog.wordpress.com.
So I'll be recapping the past few months to get caught up on the juicy details of my portfolio(s) and most importantly dividends. Those dividends act as seed money for investments and will eventually allow my wife and I to reach financial independence. I expect the rate of new capital investments to slow down a bit from my usual pace at least for the next month or so while I build up savings, deal with medical costs, finance a full household expenses since my wife quit her job to be with our son, and since I work in the oil field a little extra buffer won't hurt considering the state of the patch right now. So please bear with me while I get everything up to date between my own spreadsheets, Google spreadsheets, and around the blog.
Read more »
- Shifting Focus
Change is about the only thing that we're guaranteed in life. As many of you know the last year and a half has been a time of big change for my wife and I. We went from the excitement of her being pregnant, to finding out that our son had a very...
- Make Every Day Thanksgiving
First off Happy Thanksgiving! We all have so much to be thankful for and today is a day where we're supposed to reflect on that. Whether you're spending the day with family, friends, or alone today is a blessing. But every day is truly...
- Recent Buy
Whenever I make a new purchase for my portfolio I feel it's only fair to get a post written giving all of the juicy details. I want to be as transparent as possible with my journey to reach financial independence through dividend growth investing....
- Dividend Growth Investing At Work: Johnson & Johnson (jnj) Gives Owners A 7.1% Increase
Quick update today as I sit at the hospital with Luke! But it's one that I love, especially since Luke is doing better than last week. I love hearing about dividend increases. Like absolutely love them. There's few things that I like...
- Weekly Roundup - March 7, 2015
It feels great to be back and writing more regularly again. As most of you know I had to take some time off to be with my son since we knew he was going to require a lengthy hospital stay after being born. But he's still here and fighting which...