Lately I have been pretty dormant here. One of the main reasons at least for the recent dormancy is that our 9 month old daughter was in the hospital for almost a week. She is back at home now and life is returning to something that closely resembles the normal swing of things.
The hospital stay [...]

As promised I will give an account of the events during the past week, ending with a new addition to the family.
Karly’s due date was Tuesday, May 12th. Around Thursday, she started having contractions pretty regularly, just about every 10 minutes, but they weren’t very close together or very strong. Then Friday morning, according to [...]

This is a personal finance blog and I normally focus on that topic but this week my wife and I went to a doctors appointment to check on how the baby is doing. These appointments have become fairly routine and are usually nothing more than a “how do you do” with a nice hefty price [...]