Mat Leave / Family Finance
“Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space” – Ronald Graham (not a juggler, actually a famous Mathematician). Once you begin a family things become a bit more complicated to say the least. Your brain starts moving at lightning speed trying to accommodate someone else’s wants and needs. What seemed like a wonderful family income is now reduced to “how do we make our payments” then to leaving balances on your credit lines monthly. Stress starts building and you are hoping to have another child in the next 10 years. Even thinking about taking another costly parental leave gives you the jitters. Then, you add up the cost of the... Read more »