This past December our church really stepped out on a limb and asked its members to all join together and take Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University class. My husband and I were really excited to sign up and we are now in our 3rd week of class. One of the main points of FPU is… [Read More]

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post for the US Family Guide on behalf of Emeals. This is not a new company for us but we were looking into starting to use their meal planning program again so the timing was perfect. After I wrote the post, I was contacted and offered the… [Read More]

The other day I was skimming Pinterest and found a great link that my friend Missy had posted. The comment below a picture of a breast pump said, “free breast pump, weee.” Of course I was instantly curious, clicked the link, and voila was taken to an article discussing some new provisions to the Affordable… [Read More]

Image by Cool Text: Free Logos and Buttons I don’t normally do this and by this I mean post about something that I wasn’t asked to review. However, I was so moved, touched, taken by the Dare to Be Conference that I attended last Sunday night at our church I just couldn’t keep it to… [Read More]

We found out that we were pregnant the last week of September. I was feeling pretty good. No pregnancy symptoms and I was able to follow my doctors orders to take one baby aspirin, a prenatal vitamin and extra folic acid without any problems. Well that was until, the dreaded 6 week marker when all of… [Read More]

It was the fall of 1981. My family and I had just moved back to Florida after a few years in Texas. I was 7 and in 2nd grade. Every day at recess, I would climb up on the monkey bars and play with a girl named Dina. We were “instantly” BFFs.After a few weeks,… [Read More]

A couple of years ago, when I became a Dave Ramsey addict, I signed our family up for eMeals. We were fairly consistent and I defintely loved the savings and ease of planning, even though they didn’t have a specific plan for our Midwest Kroger. My husband, who does most of our cooking, enjoyed the… [Read More]

A crazy thing happened on my way to becoming fit and fabulous with the Cinch plan. I became pregnant! Pregnant! Can I say that ONE MORE TIME? PREGNANT! As in, forget trying to slim and trim that buddah belly and instead I get to watch it grow…and grow…and grow. However, I don’t want to leave… [Read More]

The stockings are hung, the family has been told and now we are ready to make our big announcement… After years of infertility, countless little souls lost… we are miraculously and amazingly expecting our 3rd precious baby this June! Eph & Lu are super excited to be a big brother and sister. It is such… [Read More]

I love our Elf on the Shelf! I love that every morning, for the entire month of December, that my kids wake up with a little bit of Christmas “expectation” in their hearts. They run down the stairs, not in search of a room full of presents but instead to see what Nico the Elf… [Read More]