The New Year is coming! So many people have an idea of how they want to overhaul their life in the New Year. Some want to lose weight, be healthier, start a new business, or get a handle on their finances. Let me tell you, I have been in EVERY […]
Month: December 2018
2018 Read and Loved List
I recently saw a different blogger who posted what she’d read in 2018. I read her post thinking to myself that I couldn’t post like that, because I didn’t have enough books that I actually read in 2018. I work full time, parent three little monsters, transport them all over, […]
Debt Free, Attacking our Mortgage, Building Wealth: Our Story
About six years ago, a family member and friend mentioned to me that she (thank you, Stacy!) was using the Dave Ramsey envelope system and it was really helping with their money situation. I was intrigued. A few months before this conversation, my husband had just taken a new job. […]
Tips to Cut Back Gifts & Give Love
Here are some tips/ideas for cutting back at Christmas. 1. Budget- Schmudget. This trips me up every year. I think I need to spend THIS AMOUNT on each child. Then because I need to spend more money, I waste it on junk that only clutters my house and drains my […]
Fiasco Deuce: How I wrecked my Car Twice in 20 Seconds.
Oops, I did it again. And not in a Brittany Spears way. In an “I messed up my car, again” way. I can not even believe what I did. I can not even make up my life right now. I just can’t. In order to redeem myself, let me tell […]
Engaging and Retaining The Young ones
All rural leaders are tasked with retaining their young people. Or at least, in my opinion, they should be. Every year, local high schools graduate students that set out to pursue their life goals. For twelve years of a student’s life, locals funded their education only to watch them move […]
Christmas Cut Back
This was published on my other little blog, where I wrote letters to my children. You can find the blog here, but in order to not self plagiarize, I am, well, citing myself. Self-plagiarism is a thing, look it up. This was one of my most popular blogs over there […]
Small Town Saturday Night
Our little town was bustling today, and it makes Shawn’s insides dance with delight. Mine, too if I am being honest. We live here for the quality of life that a small town affords and today was a perfect spotlight for that quality of life. We had about four things […]
Easy Peasy Extra Chocolatey Hot Chocolate
Do your kids love hot chocolate? Mine do! Every time we are outside on a cold day, when we come in they immediately request hot chocolate. But because I am the worst domestic goddess ever, we are often out of the easy packets. ALSO- I HATE looking for a recipe […]
Not Into Snow Day 2
So we are day two of no school, day 7 of Thanksgiving break. Remember how much I said I loved a snow day? My job is super fast spaced at school and I LOVE not going to work for a couple of days. All of the other educators are out […]