Build Your Retirement

As many of you know, this blog began when my husband and I began Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University. Before we took FPU, we thought we were totally money savvy, but our debt proved otherwise. In March 2011, only 18 months after starting our debt reduction,...

Financial Peace University and the Military

This blog post is dedicated to my sweet cousin Bethany who is a military wife to a deployed Marine. It takes a special person to be married to the military. Being a military spouse is not easy. I know because I was a military wife for 8 years. During that time there...

Dave Ramsey’s 7 Baby Steps to Financial Freedom

I have been writing this post now for a while and realized that I have not ever posted Dave Ramsey’s 7 Baby Steps. Why does he call them Baby Steps? According to his website you learn to “get out of debt the way you learn to walk – one step at a...