Well tomorrow is one of the big days in our adoption process! We have the social worker coming over to do the home study, and after having to fill out countless packets of paperwork, I’m ready to get it all over with. We’ve been pretty fortunate though with our adoption process since the biological father has been cooperative. Our lawyer received the last of his paperwork (the relinquishment of his parental rights) last week, and my wife couldn’t be happier. The rest of the process is just on us and our lawyers (and the social worker tomorrow), so hopefully everything will wrap up pretty smoothly. In about 2 weeks or so graduate school will end for the semester and the adoption process should be over, so I’ll finally have more time to dedicate to the site. I haven’t really had a chance to do much more than keep up with the writing each day, so for all of you out there that have been commenting more frequently, thank you! I plan to catch up soon enough and participate more in the collaboration aspect of all of this.
The Carnival of Personal Finance was hosted by Gather Little By Little this week, and our article on money management basics was included. For the Festival of Frugality this week, Rather Be Shopping chose our If You Don’t Need It, It’s Not A Great Deal article as one of the editor’s picks! Thanks Kyle! The 8th edition of the Money Hacks Carnival was hosted at Be Thrifty Like Us, and our article about escrow accounts was included. As always I’d like send a big thank you to those that hosted this week, they always do a great job, and help to provide a lot of great reading for all of us.
Here are a couple articles that caught my eye this week:
Over at Destroy Debt, there was a clever article All I Really Need To Know About Managing Money Came From Music, taking various music titles and applying them to financial lessons. Very creative and entertaining post.
Trent at the Simple Dollar had an interesting article about personal finance and intrusion. I have been faced with a similar situation in my life which I discussed recently, and I think his advice has a lot of merit. I’ve been struggling with the fact that I want to help them and I can’t understand why they won’t take it. I could take a less aggressive approach to it, but it’s hard to tell for sure. In 20 years when all the “just getting by” starts to catch up to them, who’s going to have to pay for it? My wife and I? Quite possibly, and that’s why I’d rather help them help themselves now…so that it will save us later.
Anyway, hope you all have a wonderful weekend!
