Now that Thanksgiving is behind us, and we’ve crossed the mark of December 1st, it is the official Christmas season now. We went this weekend to cut down our tree, the house is decorated, and the first Christmas party has
At our house, “Have you seen my _{insert lost thing} ?” is a common refrain. This morning, I couldn’t find the carpet cleaner (that I had just used last week on a different pet incident), Ben couldn’t find the belt
Sorry for the delayed blog post (we usually post on Tuesdays), but we’ve been at the Wealth/Stack conference in Arizona and have been totally occupied. Wealth/Stack has been a great conference to hear where the future of financial advice and
This week, our beloved dog sitter, Erika, is taking a much-deserved break from her regular routine…Milo included. So, Milo has been happily jumping in the car every morning to drop the kids at school and then come with me to
As I write this blog, Hurricane Lane is approaching Hawaii and residents are facing the largest storm in 26 years. News footage is dominated with charts of the storm’s path, balanced with residents buying water and other staples or evacuating.
Happy 4th of July eve! Tomorrow we celebrate our nation’s fight for independence with BBQs, pool parties, and fireworks—and oddly enough lots of hot dogs. Apparently, Americans consume over 150 million hot dogs on July 4th. Pretty impressive. Our forefathers
Nathan always references cool songs in his blogs—the only one that came to mind for this blog was Olivia Newton-John’s “Physical”. Not exactly a cool song, but I digress… Recently, I followed our usual Meridian advice to clients and started
As we’ve written about many times, Meridian has been compliant with the 2016 Department of Labor fiduciary rule, as we have been fiduciaries since Meridian was founded in 2015. To us, it just makes sense that your advisor should have
As I write this blog, I am sitting at the second sports practice of the three we have tonight. Melanie just finished soccer practice, we are currently at Ben’s basketball practice, and we still have Ethan’s basketball practice to go.
This past Thanksgiving week, my wife and I made the somewhat suspect decision to travel to the Gulf Coast of Florida and back (with a layover in Dallas) with our three children, ages 8, 6, and 3. While our time