Haha only time will tell!

Right?! These markets continue to blow my mind. It sure does seem like were in this boom period. But it’s been 10+ years now which is just wiiild. Here’s to another 10!

Congratulations. It’s really ridiculously wild when you see an ETF, not an individual stock, but an ETF fly high to 16% return in just 7 months. It kinda makes me wonder if this is how people felt during 1995 – 1999.

If this bull market lasts four more years, I will gladly take that to the bank.

Thank you Courtney and you’re welcome! We hope to see more people in the FI community open up about their numbers. Glad to hear that you find our transparency helpful 🙂

Thanks friend! Yep we went for it in May and so far it’s been great 🙂 We went the bromine route which is definitely recommend as it’s not as tough on your skin and hardly has any chemical smell. Ours neighbours just got a hot tub themselves and I’m sure part of that was due to us talking about ours a lot haha.

I’m so pumped for this leave. It’s going to be realllllly hard to go back. After this first month I can see myself finding it a bit easier to actually consider not returning.

Bi-weekly is definitely the way to go at this point!!

Thank you Abigail! Trying to decide if this mini-retirement will turn into full on retirement or not! It’s an incredible place to be!

I believe it when you say after using all those tax programs for the US that none of them are stellar. Hopefully Expat File works well for you too if you give it a try!

We’ve had the hot tub for a few months so far now and we are loving it! It’s relatively low maintenance and it’s great to soak in and relax. We went the bromine route so it’s not irritating on our skin nor does it have much of a chemical smell. We did a ton of digging to find the best hot tub size wise and for Canadian winters. We love the design in that it was super easy to transport/set up and also there are no set seating spots.

Honestly, if we could have sold at a price that made sense to us we would have much rather preferred to have gone that route. Our rental is doing ok for us in regards to income coming in but nothing crazy like some of the other markets. Real estate is definitely not for everyone and once we sell our townhouse we have no plans to get back into it.

Thank you Liquid! Yep just waiting on Parker’s SIN to come in and then crossing off “open up RESP” from the baby to do list. Our 3 year old already has 2 years of tuition covered in her RESP so far, woo hoo! (Who knows what the future looks like for post-secondary education but it’s nice to know it likely will be covered whichever route they go.)

I’m thinking long term for the crypto markets too which is why I’m holding on. Here’s hoping!

Thank you Gean! This first month off has been wonderful so far 🙂

Thank you Leeanne! The hot tub pool has been great during this warm summer days!

I am so excited for your 61 weeks of parental leave! I wish my hubby would’ve taken advantage of it when our kids were little, but he was nervous about losing ground in his career.

Good choice to move to bi-weekly posts. I hear ya about the blogger burnout. It’s real!