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…
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…