Dear Dave,
To be completely honest, I intentionally did not blog for the past several months. I felt like we had no wins to share, so the wind just got sucked out of our sails. We were expecting a baby, so we were saving money, buying things that we needed, buying things that we didn’t need. We were comfortable enough financially that we decided to loosen the tight reins for a while. We went on more dates, went out to eat a little more, bought a TV (mostly with gift cards, get off my back).
So now the baby is here. His name is Jonah Zachary LaValley.
Here’s a picture:
He’s 7 weeks old and things have settled a little bit. So it’s time to jump back in to blogomania.
Yeah, that’s a word.
Last week we dove into the debt snowball (baby emergency fund was done a while ago). We settled a 1600 dollar hospital bill for 1300 bucks and I skipped the whole way home. Actually… I drove. But I felt like skipping.
And today we began the long and arduous journey of paying off our school debt, starting with the smallest one: 3900 dollars.
Wish us luck. It’s good to be back.
-Zach LaValley
It’s good to see you back. I was just thinking this past week that we hadn’t heard from you in a long time. Congratulations on your new son! Send that snowball a roll in.
Thanks for the welcome back, Jean. I hope you enjoy this next season of “Letters”.
Good to hear from you again. Congrats on the bundle of blessings!
thanks man. we’re pumped.