A newer tradition in my family has been to visit the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle during the holidays for Wild Lights, and we went again this past weekend. Last year was rainy and windy, so still fun, but it made us really appreciate this year with relatively nice weather. The temperature was in the…
Last Saturday after Thanksgiving, we headed out for our second annual trip to a tree farm outside of Sequim to get our Christmas tree. Since we live in a more urban area, there aren't many tree farms to choose from close by, and even those are a good 45+ minute drive from us, so we've…
My youngest brother went off to college out of state this fall, but he's in town for the Thanksgiving holiday. He and our son are close buddies and they were so, so happy to see each other this past week. My brother and I are twelve years apart, and the two of them are fifteen…
I know I've talked about it before, but I really don't enjoy how dark it gets so early in the evening this time of year. But once Thanksgiving happens and the Christmas lights go up, it feels not nearly so bad because it isn't nearly so dark outside. Maybe not the best use of electricity…
Apparently it's week 45 of 52 of this year already, which feels a bit mind boggling. Our anniversary is on Tuesday, and then Thanksgiving is just a few weeks after that. I do love this time of year, but it feels like October happened in a blink because of how busy I've been. Even good…
Welcome to yet another Friday, friends. Today, I'm in Denver at Cents Positive, and I can hardly believe it's here. I've been waiting for months for this weekend, especially when sitting at home when it seemed like everyone was at FinCon back in September. But now it's my turn, and I get to be at…
I had said that life was going to calm down once we hit mid-October, right? Well, let's just say I'm going to revise that and go with early November, because I am absolutely not going to be able to catch by breath until then (and again didn't get home until after eleven last night). Most…
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…