My Family’s Money

Today marks the beginning of my second year of blogging at My Family’s Money. It hasn’t seemed like a year since I first penned my inaugural post that I titled “I Want Gold“  – but it has been.   Time has marched on, leaving its tread on my bearded cheek.

A lot of wonderful things have happened to me and my family since I started this whole “internet” thing.  I had a baby, and it was a boy.  Holding him in my arms is like staring at a bleeding sunset and having my scalp massaged at the same time.  Just thinking about it is giving me goosebumps.  No doubt that my little man is going to impact my family’s financial future – but I have a sinking feeling that getting to know him is going to be worth every cent.

In terms of blogging, I feel like I have written some interesting and semi-useful articles over the past year.  Probably my favorite (and at one time, insanely popular) is my post about pet monkeys.  I haven’t produced anything nearly as educational or fun.

Some of my other favorite posts/series over the past year have included:

• Why We Are Committed to Living Debt Free
• Ethiopia, Equality, and the Principle of Fairness
• Six Financial Lessons Learned From Going Poop
• Budgeting: A Guide to Sanity and Wisdom
• Emergency Funds Are the Coolest

Probably my most useful post  (“useful” being defined as getting the most clicks from the search engines) include:

• Calculating A Paycheck for a Raise
• Calculating A Paycheck for a New Pay Schedule
• Dollar Cost Averaging and the Great Depression
• Budget Hack: Sumif to the Rescue
• Dollar Cost Averaging in a Declining Stock Market

Blogging over the past year has been a lot of fun and a lot of work.   It has been a great pleasure to be useful and entertaining to those that have found my site and I am incredibly greatful to all those that have commented or linked to my content.

Here’s to another year of blogging!