Comments for Modern FImily

Comment on I’m Still Here… Kinda by Jackie

Jackie — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 00:31:20 +0000

Happy that your family is living the best life! Thank you for writing this blog and I enjoyed the interviews. Have fun, and Happy Spring.

Comment on I’m Still Here… Kinda by Chrissy @ Eat Sleep Breathe FI

Chrissy @ Eat Sleep Breathe FI — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 06:35:23 +0000

Hey, friend! Like you, FI life takes up a lot of our time so I find it hard to keep up with blog stuff—including reading and commenting on my friends’ blogs!

I love your updates, but I totally understand why they’ll be less and less frequent. I’m in the same boat, sadly (but also not really as it means we’re living our best lives—offline)!

Comment on I’m Still Here… Kinda by Tracy

Tracy — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 03:31:19 +0000

So happy to hear you’re living life to the fullest and living your why. I do wonder if your family would do well with some form of homeschooling with a distributed learning school program that has some in person contact and community. I know you were waffling a bit on this before. Also, have you ruled out long, slow travel for awhile after Portugal didn’t end up quite as you’d pictured it? You all do sound definitely settled nicely in Cochrane (who knew there was an FIRE community there? A northern version of Longmont perhaps? Enjoy it all, and I always appreciate and look forward to more updates when you feel like it and will see you in the FB groups in the meantime.

Comment on I’m Still Here… Kinda by Post Morbus

Post Morbus — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 21:44:33 +0000

In reply to Cassandra. Thanks so much! I am so grateful that we had that time with them. Someone once told me, "the days are long but the years are short" and it's so very true. I can't believe the eldest will drive this year (I am sorry, what?!). :)

Comment on I’m Still Here… Kinda by Cassandra

Cassandra — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 17:16:38 +0000

In reply to Post Morbus.

Hi Post Morbus, I just wanted to say I really enjoyed reading your comment here.
I’m a teacher and it has always broken my heart to see the kiddos who come into school from before-school-care, and then leave school for after-school-care, and somewhere during the school day shed some tears because they miss their mom or dad. I don’t always know the situations but I’ve shared that feeling that it’d be weird to have kids and then not spend time with them. You really don’t get that many years, and even the hours are limited once they hit school age!
Keep enjoying those teenagers!

Comment on I’m Still Here… Kinda by Cassandra

Cassandra — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 17:10:14 +0000

Goodbye to another of my fave blogs! Thanks for everything you’ve shared over the years. You’ve certainly helped many people with your diversity of posts.
I’m personally thankful for many posts over the years and even more thankful that it’s not goodbye in real life! If not for your blog I wonder how long it would have taken for me to put it together that we lived in the same community…
Pretty incredible how many of us there are here, and even though we’re in many different positions/life stages there is a very core outlook that I love to connect over.

Comment on I’m Still Here… Kinda by Post Morbus

Post Morbus — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 16:33:11 +0000

Honestly, I really enjoy my kids as well! I was also lucky to be home with them until they were 2 and 4 (and then I only worked 9 months and took the summers off until they were 5 and 7). When they were babies we got comments like, “just wait until the terrible twos!” Then it was, “just wait until they’re in school, you will welcome the break!” Then it was, “Ugh, tweens are so awful” quickly followed by, “just wait until they’re teenagers, then you’ll see!” Maybe I will regret saying this in a year or two, but my kids are almost 14 and 16 and I LOVE hanging out with them! Teenagers are pretty great, quite frankly. I just really have enjoyed them at every age. Sure, not every day is a delight and there are moments where you just want to scream, but that is just life.

I am so grateful that our kids still want to hang out with us! Just last night my kids sat up drinking tea with me laughing and chatting. We have a lot of those moments but we have cultivated that culture in our home as well. IMO when you are active in your kid’s lives from the beginning then that continues over time. TBQH it’s weird to me to have kids and then not want to spend time with them!

Comment on I’m Still Here… Kinda by Leah Ramsay

Leah Ramsay — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 16:22:03 +0000

Sharing IS caring, and thank you so much for sharing. Yours and Nic’s teamwork is an inspiration.

Comment on I’m Still Here… Kinda by Chris

Chris — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 15:47:12 +0000

Thanks for the check in my friend, next trip your way I’ll reach out and hopefully have some time to spare unlike last time. Glad things are going well and are surviving being part of the toy search and rescue team 🙂

Comment on I’m Still Here… Kinda by Mark C - Toronto

Mark C - Toronto — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 14:36:37 +0000

Thanks for the update, Court. Good to see you are doing well. This last few months of market ebullience has done well to calm nerves for those who are invested, perhaps less so for those still hoping to “get in.”