I’ve been either a stay-at-home-mom, self-employed, or a part-time working mom since we had our first child nearly 18 years ago. No matter my work or income situation, I’ve always looked for ways to stretch the money that we have coming into our household. I have attempted almost every dollar-stretching idea you can think of–from …
About four weeks ago, we bought a house that needed some updating and renovating. We’ve replaced stained carpet with laminate floors and painted every. single. room in the house. We took out a wall and half of another one. Unfortunately, our carpenter has run into delays–with other projects he’s had going on, not ours–and just …
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“Could you, would you in a boat?” “Could you, would you with a goat?” That Sam-I-Am was sure that he didn’t like green eggs and ham (affiliate link)… until he tried them. AC8 has been reading her favorite book to AG5 almost daily for the past several weeks. This morning, I decided to surprise my crew with …
Let’s not kid ourselves. This parenting thing is hard. There are many days when I am tired, distracted by life’s demands, or just plain selfish. There are plenty of days when I just don’t want to give any more of myself. Has anyone else ever been there? Or am I the only one? So what’s …
Holy cow! We bought a house! And it is such a great God-story that I just have to share it… While we were preparing to return to the US from Ecuador last year, we began to look at real estate sites from our home town. We ran across a 5 bedroom, 3.5 bath house that …
