Lunch, games, prizes, and too much sugar. Here’s how we celebrated our son’s birthday – and how much we spent.
Mazal tov to us! Our son recently turned 5. 🎉 Hard to believe our COVID baby is so big! It was important to us to (a) make him feel special, (b) invite his whole kindergarten class, and (c) keep costs reasonable, of course. As we weren’t thrilled by the idea of hosting 20 five-year-olds in…
Our Fionist personal update – Q2 2024
Welcome to our second Fionist quarterly update of 2024. In this post, we’ll get you up to date on what we’ve been up to since the last update and where we stand in terms of reaching the goals we set for ourselves on Rosh Hashana 5784. Feel free to click here to read our past…
Our Fionist personal update – Q1 2024
Welcome to our first Fionist quarterly update of 2024! In this post, we’ll get you up to date on what we’ve been up to in the first three months of this year and where we stand in terms of reaching the goals we set for ourselves on Rosh Hashana 5784. Feel free to click here…
Our top 5 “luxury” appliances that save us 11 hours of housework per week
If you’re familiar with our story, you’ll know that there was a point in our lives when we were new parents making just over minimum wage. Things were very tight and we made do with the basics. Slowly but surely, we got better paying jobs and our income increased. While we generally do our best…
Our Fionist personal update – Sep-Dec 2023
Welcome to what should have been our Q4 Fionist quarterly update, but… things got messy, so this post will actually cover four months – a trimester, if you will. In this post, we will let you know how the last part of 2023 was for us, both on our FI journey and in life in…
We were supposed to be on vacation…
If you’ve been following our blog, you know that we live for travel and had been excitedly planning our family vacation that was supposed to happen this fall. In fact, we were supposed to land back in Israel this morning, just in time to vote in our municipal elections – which also never happened. Our…
How to choose the right dog for your family
It’s been a tough few weeks. Okay. That’s an understatement. With an ongoing war, a death in the family, and our kids out of school for nearly a month, our lives have turned upside down. It’s been hard for us to concentrate on anything, including this blog. This is the post we had intended to…
Our 2023 Rosh Hashana goals and check in
It’s been one year since we shared our 5783 Rosh Hashana goals with you. Hurrah! I bet you wonder how we’re doing. In this post, we’ll check in on last year’s new year’s resolutions. While we didn’t hit them all, we’re proud of ourselves for what we achieved. We’ll then end the post with our…
Chasing the Fionist Dream is one! Happy birthday to us 🙂
One year ago, on August 10, 2022, we launched this blog and posted our very first post. We put ourselves out there and had no idea what the future would bring. Would people read our blog? Find it interesting? Would we run out things to write about? It turns out that one year in, we’re…
Our Fionist personal update – Jan-April 2023
In early 2023 we shared our first quarterly update to let you know how our journey progressed from Rosh Hashana to the end of 2022. We meant to post another one last month about Q1, but you know… life. Since we’re only writing this now, we’re including April, cuz why not? Maybe we’ll switch to…
And… we’re back!
Hi friends! Did you miss us? After two weeks away from our blog and out of the country, we’re back! So where did we go and what did we do? And most importantly, how much did it cost us? Before we begin, we want to point out that while this trip did cost a substantial…
Sit. Stay. Save! – 12 ways we save money on dog expenses
If you’ve been reading our blog for a while (or if you look at our logo), you’ll know that we have a dog and we love her to pieces. A few months after getting married, we brought home an awkward, terrified rescue puppy and never looked back. It’s hard to believe that our big furry…
Four years car-free, and loving it
This month marks four years since we got rid of our car. As you may recall, it was unplanned and was originally supposed to be temporary, but looking back, it was one of the best decisions we’ve made. Not only has it saved us over a hundred thousand shekels by this point, it has been…
Our Fionist personal update – Q4 2022
Happy 2023 everyone! It has now been four months since launching our blog and three months since our Rosh Hashana new years goals post, so we bet you’re wondering what we’re up to. Welcome to our very first Fionist quarterly update! In this post, we will let you know how we’ve been doing for the…
Our 2000 shekel chol hamoed family vacation in Israel
As a few of us have birthdays in the fall and it’s off-season, that is generally the time of year we choose for family vacations. By September, we had built up a slush fund since we decided months ago that we wanted to vacation this fall, but we still hadn’t booked anything yet in the…
Chasing the Fionist Dream 