Thank You FPU!!

Jul 29, 2015 | Life, Money

Words cannot express how thankful I am for having taken Financial Peace University! As I mentioned in my January 1st post, we were anticipating my husband losing his job.  He stopped working in March and the checks stopped arriving in May.  Now it is almost August and...

Welcome 2015 Goodbye HELOC!

Jan 6, 2015 | Life, Money

Yeah…Yeah…I know it has been an ENTIRE year since I last wrote on this blog.  I have discovered that working on a Master’s degree requires A LOT of writing. My mental energy has been utilized elsewhere. If you remember, in my Welcome 2014 post, I...

Welcome 2014!

Jan 6, 2014 | Life, Money

Happy New Year!! 2014 is here and if you are like me your head is spinning just a bit!  It seemed that Thanksgiving was here and now suddenly we are at the beginning…again. Changes in 2013. Change began last year when I decided to expand my brain and begin a...

I’ll Never Forget…but I Wish I Could

Sep 11, 2013 | Life

  I almost forgot until last night. As I took a quick peek at Facebook right before going to bed, I stumbled on a few statuses that reminded me what today was…September 11th. I’ll never forget… I’ll never forget the gorgeous morning with the blue cloudless...

Braces-Free at 40!

May 13, 2013 | Life

In February 2012, I wrote a post about Getting Braces at 40. I had previously had braces in my late 20’s and did not really want to repeat the process right before I turned the big 4-0! In April 2012, I had the appliances put on just 2 months before I turned 40....

Where Have You Been?!?

Apr 18, 2013 | Life, Storytime

This is the question you may or may not have been asking yourself since the beginning of the year. I could go into some spiel about how busy I am with kids, cleaning, cooking, etc, but you’d see through that, right? Well, I have been busy with all of those...