Money and Finance
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 severe case of CDH, to my wife quitting her job to be with our son every day, to him battling for his life for 8.5 months in the hospital, to lots of medical bills, to me having to take a cut in pay due to the slowdown in the oil field and to me working much less than usual which meant less income. And that's just the changes I can think of off the top of my head.
As such, financial matters weren't our real focus throughout much of 2015 as there were much bigger issues to tackle. 2015 could be defined as a year of treading water financially to say the least. We made very little progress on our journey to financial independence, but honestly we were just happy that we were on solid enough financial ground that we were able to tread water and not drown. We had finally gotten on top of all of our finances by the end of 2015 after neglecting many of the issues that had slipped through the cracks throughout the year.
We were hoping that 2016 would bring much calmer waters, but it looks like that won't be the case. I'm excited to announce that my wife is pregnant again and we are expecting another child on July 11th. While 2016 looks to be another transition year for our finances we're just hoping that everything turns out fine with our new child. Everything was "normal" during the last pregnancy until the 20th week ultrasound which my wife will reach later this month. We don't really expect there to be any issues, but then again we didn't expect there to be any issues the first time.
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- New Year, New You, New Goals
2015 is winding down and 2016 will be in full swing before we know it. This past year was very crazy for my wife and I and we're both ready to move forward into 2016 and get back on track. Financially it was fairly difficult and we ended up taking...
- 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 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...
- Weekly Roundup - September 6, 2014
This past week was trying to say the least. Nothing much to report on the financial/investing front but lots of things changed with Lucas, our son set to join us in late December. We haven't updated the BabyLukeBlog.wordpress.com site yet for...
- February 2016 Dividends And Passive Income Progress
I was able to purchase shares of DEO in February and I had a post about this here. February is usually one of the lowest dividends month for me. Dividends received in February 2016: AAPL$0.54BMO$15.96DRI$17.42FCPT$2.20KMI$8.66NE$4.80PG$17.14RY$10.76T$13.71TD$12.95YUM$0.34Total$104.48...
Money and Finance
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 severe case of CDH, to my wife quitting her job to be with our son every day, to him battling for his life for 8.5 months in the hospital, to lots of medical bills, to me having to take a cut in pay due to the slowdown in the oil field and to me working much less than usual which meant less income. And that's just the changes I can think of off the top of my head.
As such, financial matters weren't our real focus throughout much of 2015 as there were much bigger issues to tackle. 2015 could be defined as a year of treading water financially to say the least. We made very little progress on our journey to financial independence, but honestly we were just happy that we were on solid enough financial ground that we were able to tread water and not drown. We had finally gotten on top of all of our finances by the end of 2015 after neglecting many of the issues that had slipped through the cracks throughout the year.
We were hoping that 2016 would bring much calmer waters, but it looks like that won't be the case. I'm excited to announce that my wife is pregnant again and we are expecting another child on July 11th. While 2016 looks to be another transition year for our finances we're just hoping that everything turns out fine with our new child. Everything was "normal" during the last pregnancy until the 20th week ultrasound which my wife will reach later this month. We don't really expect there to be any issues, but then again we didn't expect there to be any issues the first time.
Read more »
- New Year, New You, New Goals
2015 is winding down and 2016 will be in full swing before we know it. This past year was very crazy for my wife and I and we're both ready to move forward into 2016 and get back on track. Financially it was fairly difficult and we ended up taking...
- 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 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...
- Weekly Roundup - September 6, 2014
This past week was trying to say the least. Nothing much to report on the financial/investing front but lots of things changed with Lucas, our son set to join us in late December. We haven't updated the BabyLukeBlog.wordpress.com site yet for...
- February 2016 Dividends And Passive Income Progress
I was able to purchase shares of DEO in February and I had a post about this here. February is usually one of the lowest dividends month for me. Dividends received in February 2016: AAPL$0.54BMO$15.96DRI$17.42FCPT$2.20KMI$8.66NE$4.80PG$17.14RY$10.76T$13.71TD$12.95YUM$0.34Total$104.48...