As I mentioned in a recent post, my baby girl starts first grade next week! I cannot believe that in just a couple of days, summer will officially be over and school starts again. This school year, my daughter will experience something new – uniforms go into effect at her school for the first time. […]
Tell Them You Care
I’ve known my husband close to seventeen years. This means I’ve known him more than half my life. In a sense, we’ve done a lot of growing up together. Though we were in high school at the same time, we didn’t attend the same high school. In fact, we lived on opposites sides of town, […]
Back to School Shopping, Done (Early)!
The new school year is almost here; my girl starts school in less than two weeks! She is moving on from Kindergarten to 1st grade and though she’s a little hesitant about it, I’m excited for her. I can already tell – just by looking at her school supply list – that 1st grade is […]
You May Have an Extra $7,000 in Your Home and Don’t Even Know It!
What could you do with $7,000? Pay off some debt? Family vacation? Save it for a rainy day? While I can think of many things we could probably do with that amount of money, I’m not exactly sure what I’d do with $7,000. I do know that I’d be grateful to come across such an […]
Sometimes It Really Does Take a Village, Let’s Appreciate Them
“I don’t know how single parents do this!” I remember the first time I said those words to my husband. It was a few months after our baby girl was born. Life with a baby, I found out, was hard – harder than I ever could have imagined. How in the world do single parents […]