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…
Once, when our son was a newborn, a couple of our neighbors mowed our lawn when they noticed it had gotten quite long. I was home with our son during the day, but my husband was back to work and regularly gone 12+ hours a day, so cutting the grass just wasn't high on our…
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…
Tuesday isn't a typical day I publish a post, but as my husband and I celebrate our ninth wedding anniversary today, I wanted to write down a little something - shout my love to the world, as it were. We are in town today unlike last year when we were in Hawaii (and up on…
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…
When I first started writing this blog, there were a few other bloggers who I connected with right away because it was obvious that we shared a lot of the same values: financial independence, of course, but also looking at that and everything else through a lens of sustainability first and foremost. Kristine at Frugasaurus,…
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…