Category: <span>FIRE / Career</span>

Closing Out 2023 & Exciting Plans For The New Year

Happy New Year from Our Kaleidoscope Homestead!  We hope your holiday season was filled with joy and happy memories, and that you’re feeling refreshed and motivated for the wonderful year ahead of us.  The past few months have been very busy for us, and we have a couple of very …

Announcing: Two New Resources For Better Work-Life Balance

Greetings from our homestead! In the near decade since this blog was born, I’ve worked diligently to achieve better balance between work and so many other passions. Now, I have two ways to share some of my acquired skills and knowledge with everyone.   As a New Years’ gift, I …

Reflections On “The Road-Less-Traveled” Challenge, Seven Years Later

Back in 2016, we had just started on our journey to destroy our debt, while mapping out a plan to achieve financial semi-independence.  A lot has changed since then, including the addition of twins and moving to a forever homestead.  Have our goals or strategies changed too?  What can we …

Monday Medley: Summer Update From The Homestead

Happy Summer!  It’s time for a little update on our family’s journey to build a homestead that will support our dream of financial semi-independence, and all the things we enjoy along the way.   Family The kids have been out of school for a couple of weeks now, and they …

Spring Update From Our Kaleidoscope Homestead

Greetings from Our Kaleidoscope Homestead.  While it has been a eventful winter that kept us busy, we’ve been anxiously awaiting the next season at our new home.  Here is your update on what’s been happening and what’s to come, as we build our financially semi-independent, family homestead. Our Home Older …

Monday Medley: Updates, Holidays, and Kaleidoscope Homestead Progress

Time for an update on our progress in Creating Our Kaleidoscope of a life: even though our family is mostly settled into the new home, there is still more work to be done towards our next goal of financial semi-independence.     The Holidays We just hosted Thanksgiving for our …

Maintaining Momentum After Achieving Big Goals

It can be tempting at times, to focus on your accomplishments, and decide that you’ve done enough.  We have been working so hard for the past decade.  After paying off our debt and moving to the forever homestead, it’s been difficult to resist the lure of celebration, relaxing, and letting …

The Journey To Our Forever Homestead

Finally closing on our forever homestead felt like so much more than just buying a house, because it represented an arrival at the destination we had been dreaming of through a long journey.  From paying off debt and being surprised by twins, to surviving a pandemic, this milestone has been …

Finally, We Found Our Forever Homestead

Just one month ago, we were making adjustments and accepting that it may take a bit longer than expected to move to our forever homestead.  My most recent blog post was even about this acquiescence.  But, it wasn’t time to give up yet.  Exciting news: We found a wonderful property …

The New Spectrum of FIRE Categories

Learning about the FIRE movement was one of the driving factors behind our family’s decision to pursue new goals and take drastic measures to improve our finances.   It’s also one of the foundations of this blog.  If you’re not familiar, FIRE is Financial Independence, Retire Early.  And there is now …