Eighteen months ago we decided to take a break from blogging about our FIRE Project, and our life in general. It was one of those well needed breaks from many things in our life. I lost a family member after a long battle with cancer, and then we had other medical issues in our immediate family that became the focus of most of our time and energy. The time away was well needed and thankfully we were able to come out on the other side and have now finally started to experience some normalcy in our lives again. I will admit that during this time the last thing on our mind was our FI project, but luckily many of the same attitudes and goals remained intact during this time away, although a little bit delayed because of setbacks related to health and our very broken health care and health insurance system. Now that we have made it through this stage and associated challenges we both really wanted to get back to focusing on this project and the goals we set out for ourselves.