March 2021 Financial Update

March update got a bit delayed, posting our two-year update and traveling got in the way. If you have not seen our two-year financial freedom update, you can click here.  It has been a good two years.   Overall, March was a mundane month. Not much happening out of the ordinary, taking parents to appointments, triathlon training, …

Budget Update – September 2020

Today's post is to update our budget information. It was March/April 2019 when I last wrote about our budget for living in financial independence. While much has changed in the world since then, much has also stayed the same. We still live in the same paid for house and drive paid for cars. Our only …

Financial Freedom 18 Month Update

So much has changed over the past 18 months that it is time to update this blog. What was our experience during the first 18 months of financial independence? Did we go back and get jobs? Did we get bored? How did our spending compare to my predicted model? How did the health insurance work …

Financial Freedom One Month Update

First Month of Freedom Today is the beginning of May 2019; one month since leaving my job as nurse faculty for a Midwestern University, where I had taught nurse practitioner students for the past 7 years.  While we had been preparing for the past year to leave our jobs (Mr. Sunshine left his a year ago …