Dear 23 Year Old Me ~Some Financial Advice

Dear 23 Year Old Me, Congratulations! You got your first big-girl job! No more waiting on tables, standing behind a cash register, or substitute teaching. You are a full-fledged teacher with a full-fledged salary ($22,000 looks huge compared to the $5,000 you used to...

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...

Teaching Finances to Children ~ A Phenomenon

Last August, I wrote a post about Teaching Finances to Children. It was one of my most popular posts on this blog. I wrote it after observing some situations where parents just gave and gave and gave to their kids because those parents felt their kids should have...

Friends, the journey and a look back.

As I sit here on a Sunday evening, I decided that it was time to see how far we have come with our debt snowball in the last 8 months.   My first thought is, “What will people think when I post our debt?” When I started this blog no one except me was...