Hello, Everyone (i.e. Chelsea). Thanks for checking in for October’s installment of “poorly written descriptions of things we do on the weekends.” After thinking about it for 20 seconds, here’s how I decided to organize the headlines for the month: Lena’s baptism Photo session Halloween party Grandpa Stiles birthday visit Lena found Jesus! 75% of…
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September 2019 Update
Event summary! We insulated our attic! Spinach Festival! More zoo! Lena’s first trip to the art museum! It’s nearly November, and I’m just now getting around to focusing on September’s update. Oops. (I wrote most of this in early October, so at least the included details are accurate. There just aren’t as many details as…
The Spaghetti Index
Taking care of a baby is hard, but we gotta eat dinner. Spaghetti is dinner. Spaghetti is easy to make. Other things are also dinner. But other things are not necessarily easy to make. I need a way to know how hard it is to cook those other things. Therefore, I propose THE SPAGHETTI INDEX™…
August 2019 Update
I can’t think of a clever intro, so here’s a list of noteworthy events. Chelsea went back to work (school?) My mom came to take care of Lena Lena learned that she can put her foot in her mouth I went to Kentucky for work Chelsea’s dad came to take care of Lena We decided…
July 2019 Update
July’s letter of the month was “M” for musical, Mom, Michigan, and MYSTERY. The summer musical production that I play in every year was this month. This year’s play was Kiss Me, Kate, which is a comedy based on Shakespeares’s The Taming of the Shrew. We had 7 (seven!) performances, and my mom came up…
June 2019 Update
It feels like so much happened in June. While writing this and thinking back on all the events, I found myself thinking “that was this month? It seems so long ago…” I guess it doesn’t help that I’m writing this (mostly) half way through July. There’s a lot going on, ok? Lena Lena turned two…
May 2019 Update
May was our first full month of parenthood. I went back to work after two weeks off following Lena’s birth, and Chelsea stayed home with Lena. Here are some highlights. (I’m writing this in June, on my phone, while Lena sleeps. Sorry if it sucks.) Grandma time Grandma (Cravens) came down from Illinois to help…
Meet the Stiles Family
Hello, and welcome! If you are reading this, you probably know us personally in real life. If you don’t, you’ll probably find this website incredibly dull. Feel free to click away, stranger. But, in case you decide to stay and still don’t know who we are, I suppose introductions are in order. Here’s the (current)…
Trail to FI: August 2017 Update
Everything below was written on my previous blog focused on financial independence and early retirement (FIRE), Trail to FI (trailtofi.com). This post was first published on the date indicated on this Stiles Files post. I have included it here for posterity, since Trail to FI no longer exists. Tracking spending is a good way to…