We’ve Paid off over $12K In Debt In Four Months. Plus June 2015 Wrapup!

June is over. I’m still trying to wrap my head around the fact that half of the year is officially gone and whether or not I did enough in the first half of the year. This month was a very busy month for me in that things with my graduate thesis project took off, requiring me to put a lot of extra energy into my lab life while also trying to balance all of the extra work I accepted outside of the lab. Half way through the month when I began to feel a bit, overwhelmed, and  I had to…

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Focus on What Really Matters When Planning Your Family

  In the past family and friends would always ask my Husband and I when we planned on having a baby. With me being in Graduate school the idea of bringing a child into the world with my limited contribution to our income coupled with the fact that I didn’t have a normal work schedule never seemed liked a great idea. My Husband and I would talk about having kids, but we always said we would wait until I graduated. Now, with only 6-10 months left of graduate school the thought of having kids has crossed my mind and we…

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