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• 06.14.08
  3 Things I Am Thankful My Father Taught Me Family Life | Comments Off

  My father is a great man. He would never admit it and he may not even know it, but he is. I owe him so much more than I will probably ever know. Here are just three things that he taught me: "God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those called according to His purpose ." Losing your mother when you are 15 is not something that is easily dealt with. It is even harder to see such a thing as a 'good,' and yet that is what ...
• 05.13.08
  The Cost of Having Kids Family Life | (10)

  I am convinced that the cost of raising children in nowhere near what most people say it is. Browsing the internet I stumbled upon a table depicting the cost of raising a child from birth to the time he reaches adulthood in the eyes of the law. The table's data is a little out dated, it was initially compiled between 1990-1992 and was adjusted to 2001 dollars using the Consumer Price Index, but even using a 2001 purchasing power it still claims that raising kids brings with it a hefty price tag for my family's income range - ...
• 04.23.08
  I’m Pregnant! Family Life | (9)

  If all goes according to plan, by early November 2008 my wife and I will be the proud parents of a strapping young lad, like me. My wife thinks it is going to be a girl, but I know better - boy all the way baby! I am simply overjoyed with the thought of being a dad. There will be so much life to share with our little one, I simply can't wait until he is born and ready for interaction. I hear that most of the pregnancy and very early infancy is mostly mother-baby bonding time, but ...
• 03.24.08
  Getting Our Heads Together Family Life | Comments Off

  I am the person who handles the finances in our family. I track our spending habits and make sure our accounts look like they are supposed to. I regularly head on over to the websites of our banking and credit institutions to check to see what purchases were recently made and enter them into our tracking spreadsheets (I used to do this using receipts but it ended up being more convenient to use the bank for this). These spreadsheets make prefect sense to me, but as I mentioned before they are still a work in progress and ...

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