My husband was out of town this whole week on a hunting trip, so it's been an odd seven days to say the least. Since our son has been born, the longest he's been away overnight was two nights in a row prior to this, and the kiddo wasn't exactly thrilled about daddy being gone…
I am loving putting together my new Women's Personal Finance Wednesdays series, but it's going to take me a little while to get used to putting out content three days a week. Even though I'm reading the blog posts anyway, and the Wednesday writing isn't all that long, it still means that I'm publishing 50%…
Last Friday was my grandmother's birthday, so we went to Leavenworth for the weekend. We'd taken her there for the first time last year and randomly ended up being there for the Autumn Leaf Festival, apparently the oldest festival the town has, and it's a ton of fun. They shut down the main street for…
I'm realizing that I talk about the weather a lot, but it really was perfect this week: high sixties to seventy and sunny during the day and fifty degrees at night. Of course, this means we've spent a good amount of time outside and I've gotten quite a bit of my fall garden prep done…
I know I've talked about previous weeks being a complete whirlwind, but that's absolutely an accurate way to describe this past week, especially with work. I'm doing work on things that I consider to be big, important parts of how my career makes an impact in this world, but the tradeoff with making that impact…
So, we ended up camping again last weekend. My husband was originally planning to go hunting this year outside the Leavenworth area, but the wildfires have burned a good part of the area. We'll see when we're there in a few weeks what the damage really is, but he wanted to scope out an alternative…
We took off for a four day long weekend to the Washington Coast for Labor Day, so I've had back to back four day work weeks and my schedule feels completely thrown off. Not in a bad or a good way, just that I had to keep reminding myself what day of the week it…
Hallelujah, I can see blue skies! It rained in earnest on Sunday and did a really good job clearing up the air beyond what was predicted, which meant we were actually able to spend a good amount of time outside this past week. Being stuck inside for a week or more at a time is…
I think back to summers in the Pacific Northwest when I was growing up, and they were filled with glorious sunny days that rarely reached above the low eighties. Summertime is idyllic around here after the long months of gray and wet, and everyone takes full advantage of the few short months of perfect weather.…
Again I packed way too much into this week, both during the weekend and on the weekdays. Even during weeks where I don't have a lot planned, we seem to have very few days where we are just hanging at home. For the most part, that's the way I like to do life - purposefully…