My wife, Kate, was born in England and moved here when she was five with her parents.  She became a US citizen many years later and now has dual citizenship in the US and in the UK.  It never occurred to me that there could be any benefit to having citizenship in two countries until Kate flew to England a few years ago to visit her family.  I was back at home working when I got the call from England.  Kate was having stomach cramps and she was planning on going to the docto

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I finally blocked out a bit of time to take an early look at our taxes now that all of our W2’s and 1099’s have arrived. I haven’t bought the 2009 Turbotax software yet so I decided to just quickly punch all the numbers in to the Turbotax website with bogus personal information. With both my wife and I working and online income, it has pushed us up in to a higher tax bracket. As I entered just my income information, Turbotax was showing we’d be getting over $5K back with std deductions.

Below is a guest post from my Mom!
My mother is a Mentor Mom for a MOPS (Mothers of Pre-Schoolers) group at church and they asked her to give her insights on the question of how to keep spouses from growing apart.  I thought I’d post what she wrote.
I know what you’re thinking – “Wait a [...]

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