Last year, I read a total of 55 books (my goal was 30). It was really fun to track what I'd read for the first time ever, so I decided to do the same for 2020. For the first two months, I was well on track to exceed my goal of 52 books (one a…
Thanksgiving in the time of COIVD was definitely a different one. We spent the day with just the four of us in our household as positive cases skyrocket; we couldn't gather in good conscience right now. It wasn't our first Thanksgiving away from family thanks to the time my husband spent enlisted in the Marine…
Welcome to another week of the Women’s Personal Finance Wednesdays roundup. I started this series after months of debate because I wasn’t certain I wanted to up the ante and commit to publishing three posts a week. However, now that I’ve started sharing these posts, I’m so glad I started. There are so many fabulous…
Waiting until near the end of November to write this post might have been a mistake, because I'm able to look back at the relative freedom we had to move around and do things in October stings a bit. Granted, "relative freedom" means a camping trip with our two friends and eating outside at restaurants…
Well, with cases climbing in a big way again, we're back to holing up at home. Not that we really did a whole lot through the summer, but we did eat outside at restaurants a couple times, had a small " bubble" with another household or two, and our families helped with childcare (masked, distanced).…
Welcome to another week of the Women’s Personal Finance Wednesdays roundup. I started this series after months of debate because I wasn’t certain I wanted to up the ante and commit to publishing three posts a week. However, now that I’ve started sharing these posts, I’m so glad I started. There are so many fabulous…
With everything that has gone on so far in 2020, from the Australian - and American - Wildfires, COVID-19, and the US Presidential election, empathy is something that we all dearly need more of. If only we all cared more about others. If our actions really mattered beyond our own selfish desires, the world would…
Well, I've done this anniversary post every November since I started blogging in 2017, so this is the fourth one of these. Each year, I've chronicled our monthly adventures through the previous year of marriage. Usually, that means there's a bunch of fun and varied trips to reminisce on and share pictures from. This year…
Welcome to another week of the Women’s Personal Finance Wednesdays roundup. I started this series after months of debate because I wasn’t certain I wanted to up the ante and commit to publishing three posts a week. However, now that I’ve started sharing these posts, I’m so glad I started. There are so many fabulous…
I had planned to skip today’s post like I had Monday and Wednesday this week due to the election, but like writing through Covid, I decided that I wanted to put down my thoughts while I’m actually living it right now. Someday, I may want to go back and read these words and remember (HA)…