One of my ongoing projects is to help keep our financial house in order. When I was fresh out of college in 1986, I worked in the financial industry. My degree was in Business Administration and Economics and investing was my passion. I held jobs with Citibank; IDS Financial Services; and Bateman, Eichler, Hill, …
My daughter Alyssa was home for a very quick visit. I was so excited to be able to spend 22 hours with her and two of her Boston friends. The girls had a week break from Boston University, and they took a road trip that started in San Diego and ended in Morgan Hill. The …
When my children were little, I read a great piece of advice. The advice was to find an activity that you and your child both enjoy. Spend time together sharing this interest with your child when they are young. Very purposefully build a base and tradition. Then as your child becomes a teenager, you will …
Sometimes our upstairs feels like a dorm. With six kids sharing (albeit on a variety of differing schedules) three bedrooms it can be a bit chaotic. When we first moved in together, my husband and I had a lot of discussion on how we were going to arrange the sleeping quarters of the four girls. …
I have a feeling my head cold is going to be hanging around for a while. Unfortunately, this cough is keeping me awake at night, so getting a good night sleep is proving to be challenging. One of the “benefits” of being sick, is that my husband made us a great big pot of chicken …
Some mornings are harder to get going than others. Like this morning – a Monday morning with a big, fat head cold – ugggh! When mornings get tough, and my energy is ebbing, I crank up the music. Below are songs that get my energy levels up, get a spring back into my step, and …
It is the weekend, I have a ton of schoolwork to be done, report cards are due Tuesday, and I have come down with a miserable head cold. The kind of head cold that has my head pounding, a deep raspy cough causing a raw and sore throat, and completely congested my sinuses. No, it …
I am so lucky OneHope Social Impact Coffee gave my 6 pounds of Karma Blend coffee so that I could run three sperate giveaways. You are lucky, because if you were not the winner of round one you have two more chances to win two pounds of this amazing coffee.As I said before ~ Have a …
My husband and I went out last night for a quick dinner. There is a new restaurant in town that just opened up called 88 Keys Cafe, and lucky for us it is right in our neighborhood! We drive past it everyday and had in fact had stopped by once before, but they were not …
Sugar and spice, and everything nice, and lots and lots of pink! That was the theme of the day. On Saturday I attended a beautiful baby shower for a friend, Tamara. This baby shower tea party was hosted by some very talented ladies. Just look at these pictures ~ every last detail was covered; it …
