Hey, hi, how are you? Here’s what I’ve been doing, eating, listening, reading, and writing this past week. Let’s chat DST, clean fridges, audio books + kindle, and more. I didn’t understand how the earth moved around the sun at different angles until I was much older. Probably in my 30s was when I noticed…
Wondering how to work family time into your regular routine? It can be hard to make a family fun night happen, especially as your kids get bigger. Here are some strategies that work for us with teens and young adults. It probably started with food. All things with me usually do. Since I was already…
How did the week go by so quickly? Here’s what I’ve been doing, eating, listening, reading, and writing this past week. Let’s chat Instagram, pantry meals, Mere Christianity, romcoms, and Scrivener. Time seems to have picked up speed. It’s as if the days are just slipping away faster than I can even experience them. Do…
Living debt-free means we have a lot more freedom than we once did. Here’s our story of how a big family in debt paid off their consumer debt and started to live debt-free. And stay that way. This is me, back in 2007 when debt and money troubles weighed on me heavily. We had been…
Last day of the month! The year is 1/6 over. That’s kinda wild. Here’s what I’ve been doing, eating, listening, reading, and writing this past week. What I’ve been doing Honestly, the week went by so quickly, I hardly know. Just as I get in the groove of the spring semester, we’ve now entered rolling…
There are many approaches to paying down debt and gaining financial independence. Bryan and I paid off our debts in 2009. It took 18 months to pay off $18,000 in consumer debt. Here’s our zero based budget example that got us there. You hear the word budget all the time: budget-friendly this, budget-friendly that. I…
Back with the latest on what I’m doing, eating, listening, reading, and writing. This week let’s chat the virtue of Prudence, the importance of meal prep, what makes a good love song, the romance genre, and being meaningful. The week has just flown by. Monday was a holiday for some of our regular activities but not…
Hosting a game night for your teenage and college kids’ friends can be a great way to support your child as well as get to know their friends. Here’s a non-intrusive, but constructive way to host a young adult game night. When we first starting hosting a game night for our kids’ friends, I didn’t…
Hello, Hi, How are you? In this week’s Ramble, let’s chat midweek tweaks to make life easier, weight vests, podcasts, romcom, and the delayed gratification involved in writing fiction. I’m stunned that February is half over. It feels like the year just started at the same time as feel miles away. The year has already…
Time feel short when it comes to meal prepping? Here are the meals I’m putting on repeat during this busy season. We are in a busy season. Not sure why I was surprised? But, I was taken aback when I realized that my kitchen routine has dropped off the face of the earth. Getting people…