Special Announcement!
A Personal Post
This week I am taking a quick break from Excel content to
bring you a personal post. This will be
the case in every month that has five Mondays.
This week I want to tell you about a special trip I took and why.
My 10th anniversary is in September. Usually this would mean a long weekend away
to celebrate with my wife, in September. This year we took that trip in March,
because in September Valerie will be 8 months pregnant! This will be our fourth
child and a chance at our first daughter.
We just got home from a great weekend at the Chipeta Solar
Spring Resort in Ridgway, CO. I got to
go snowboarding while Valerie went window shopping in Telluride. Now, before
you accuse me of abandoning my wife and not letting her actual go shopping let
me explain.
Because Valerie is 10 weeks pregnant, our midwife and doctor
recommended that Valerie not go snowboarding.
So Valerie was able to go explore Telluride while I hit the slopes.
Having been married for almost 10 years now, and being graduates (twice) of
Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University, we discuss big purchases and have a budget
for everything else anyways.
With a day to explore the town of Telluride, Valerie rode
the free gondola from the ski resort into town. Cash in hand, Valerie walked
the streets and was blown away by the outrageous prices of simple items. A
sweatshirt hanging on a rack on the sidewalk had a sticker price of $450! We
met up for pizza at the base of the mountain and had a good laugh at the ‘inflation’
that has hit these remote mountain towns.
The weekend was filled with beautiful scenic drives and
walks up and down main streets of largely deserted towns as this is their slow
season between winter and summer. This was very much a picture of our weekend
without children that was a wonderfully quiet time before a busy summer of
soccer and preparing for our newest member of the family.
Next week the Excel content will resume with a product
release of an overtime calculator designed to make data entry into QuickBooks
easier. Leave a comment as to which gender you think our baby will be!
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