Happy Thanksgiving to All!

I just want to put a short post together today to wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving. I know not everyone celebrates this holiday, but we all have something to be thankful for. For example, I am thankful (every day) that I met and married Golf, I am thankful for all the wonderful people I have been able to connect with through this blog and I am thankful for our pregnancy and the chance to be a father again.

Some quick updates:

• Thanks to everyone that went to answer the survey I sent out. The response has really been much greater than I anticipated (currently there are 48 responses). I will be analyzing the responses over the weekend and will post about them Monday including my response to some of the questions and concerns brought forth. If you haven’t participated yet you can still do so for a couple days. Survey Link – Click Here to take survey
• Thanks too for all of the great emails I have received about the post Preparing for the Move To Thailand. Your support and well wishes are a great inspiration to both Golf and I. We received quite a few emails encouraging us, congratulating us on our bravery and also giving insights and tips about how to make it happen faster. Golf and I are both quite busy and don’t have nearly enough time to talk with each other, but you’ll be happy to know we have sat down for 45 minutes to do a rough budget and will be going into deeper detail later. At this point we have found some easy quick fixes ($105 a month for gym membership gone, $50 a month for fast food gone, $50-100 in cash spending gone) and have some ideas to further reduce our costs. We also need to talk more about retirement planning which may take some time as Thailand doesn’t really have anything like 401(k)’s and Roth IRA’s and Golf is completely in the dark about their benefits for retirement and taxation.
• Golf’s pregnancy is going well and she is now almost 14 months weeks. Thankfully the morning sickness has disappeared and her energy has returned. On the downside she is beginning to show and is starting to complain about being fat

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