The Project

My wife and I both work in the IT business, so we sometimes tend to view things through the lens of our profession.

When our first child was born, we referred to him as "the Project".  The objective of this multi-year endeavor was to raise a fully functional human being and good citizen who would eventually become a middle class taxpayer.  Is that not the duty of every parent?

Less than two years later we were affected by "scope creep" when our second child came along.  As Bill Cosby once said, you do not become a real parent until you have more than one child.  "Why?  Because if you have only one child, and something is broken in your house, you know who did it!"

Additional funding was not forthcoming as a result of this change.  We found the money by reducing other expenses such as dining out, exotic vacations, and by eliminating most adult social activities.

Current Status:  Green.  We anticipate a +15% variance due to unplanned educational expenses.