A few thing good came out of April. My engagement ring was fixed, my husband surprised me with tickets to Wicked, and both of us are very much on the same page with our finances. And yes, the chart below really does say Emergency Fund -1%. This is the first time I have felt like we are working together on our financial future. I don’t want to get into it too much but let’s just say that we are now encouraging … Continue reading
One Saturday morning, I was give a few hours in the house allllllll to myself with instructions to “sew or do something else that makes you happy”. This was such a wonderful and spontaneous gift from my hubby and is just one example of why I love this man! I can’t remember exactly everything I did in those few hours, but I was able to knock out three sewing projects that ::srsly:: were not very big projects. I know this … Continue reading
Happy Monday!! Despite introducing you to Apple Hash in my last post (over a week ago), here I am to tell you that I wrote a contributor post for Colleen Houck, author of NYT Bestsellers Tiger’s Curse, Tiger’s Quest, Tiger’s Voyage, and Tiger’s Destiny. What does food and authors have to do with one another, you might ask. Well, I’ll tell you. This particular experience I’m sharing over on her website, is an Indian-type food called rogan josh. And her … Continue reading
Oatmeal was a food I used to enjoy every once in a while. My favorite was made by Better Oats. Okay, my two favorites. And both by Better Oats. One was their Raw Pure and Simple line and the other was Lavish. Lavish was dark chocolate. And oh so very delicious. And yes, while it was instant oatmeal, it had a simple ingredients list. However, moving towards my lifetime style of eating… some of those ingredients need to be kicked … Continue reading
We did our first outdoors project of the year about a month ago. In this case, we = me and Doodle (sibling #6). (A better nickname than Mini Me, yeah?) This project started a few years ago. A city worker was at our house for an entirely different reason (it involved the big tree which you can read about here, here, and here) when he said “oh yeah, your house doesn’t have numbers on it. Gotta have them in case … Continue reading