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Category Archive for: ‘Family’

  • Planning a Family: Financial and Career Considerations

    It’s an exciting feeling when you and your partner finally decide that it’s time to start a family!  Or perhaps you fall into the “surprise!” category and it’s, “ready or not, here we go!”  As exciting as it is, it can be scary as well.  [...]

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  • Stay at Home vs. Work Debate: Equity vs Choice – Revisited

    (image: momlogic) Is there a perceived loss of equity and partnership because a stay at home wife/mom isn’t “pulling her financial weight”?  Given the feminist fight for equality, should women make the choice to stay at home?  Will our daughters revolt when all is said [...]

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  • Planning For Baby? Check Your Health Insurance First!

    Over the last year, we’ve been doing research on health insurance and whether we would be able to find fertility coverage through a group plan.  Unfortunately, this has not panned out in our favor as neither mine nor my husband’s job provide this type of [...]

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  • Why IVF? How We Got To This Point

    Some have asked privately and publicly about how we found out that we would need IVF to have a baby. I was on birth control for about 2-3 years before I finally ditched it.  There were too many side effects such as weight gain, increased [...]

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  • Infertility Treatment Insurance Options: Take 1

    Recently, my husband and I decided it was time for us to get started on expanding our family.  However as the title of the post implies, we’ll have some difficulty doing so naturally.  Today I set out to find more information on insurance plans that [...]

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  • Label Whores: Wealthy Consumers Don’t Lust After Logos on Luxury Goods

    If you’re lusting after the Louis Vuitton Graffiti collection, perk up! The guys and gals over at the Journal of Marketing conducted a study where they surveyed malls in California and came up with the following: “A significant segment of the population does not want [...]

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  • Moving Past Fears Towards Motherhood

    Some of you have asked, what are some of the reasons why we waited “so long” to have a baby.  I wasn’t clear that 4 years was long but I will indulge because Im comfy sharing this part of my life with you.  Now. It [...]

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  • I Want A Baby, Really I Do.

    Yes, I said it, I want to have a baby.  Sadly, I don’t think my family believes this to be true.  Right now, we’re on our annual vacation where close to 40 of us get together on a trip somewhere in the Caribbean.  Actually, two [...]

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  • Having It All: Giving Up Peak Earning Potential To Have A Baby

      If you’ve been reading this blog for some time then you know that I am truly on a  quest to “have it all”.  I want the man, the house, kids, degree and picket fence all by 30, and I got started at 26. But [...]

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  • Having It All: Man, Child, Dog And The Picket Fence! Part 1

    How many times have we thought about this?  Self imposed (sometimes socially) time lines on motherhood, career, education and marriage? I’ve always believed that women can have it all.  Still do, just in staggered moderation.  Lately, I have to admit though, going through my own [...]

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  • Update: Sending A Family Member Money

    Im sure some of you already figured out that I sent the money.  Yes, I did and just know that it was for a good reason.  I did end up missing a conference where I was to present but I guess during times like this [...]

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  • Hard Decisions: Sending A Family Member Money

    Scenario: You have a huge trip coming up that you’ve been planning for months now, but you get a phone call stating that you need to send money to a family member in order to get them out of a really bad bind.  The kind [...]

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  • Dilemma: Balancing Education, Career and Family Planning

    Now that I am finished with my graduate studies everyone’s giving me THE LOOK and THE QUESTIONS.  This has to be the longest running dilemma of my life but I kid you not, with each milestone, the questions begin. “Soooo, when are you guys planning [...]

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  • Looking To The Past In Order To UnderStand The Present: Family Finance History

      This month the PF Bloggers are writing about Family Finance History in our monthly writing project. Looking back I would say that my immediate family has been pretty responsible with money.  My mom was and is an avid saver and actually bought her home [...]

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  • Thoughts On Managing a Parent’s Illness and Possible Continuing Care Options

    photo credit: tempophage Over the last few days I’ve been forced to think about possible continuing care options given my father in law’s recent stroke and seizure over the weekend. We were not prepared to deal with a major illness in that it required care [...]

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