Tis the time of year. With the holidays approaching, the mail box is getting filled with bills, Etsy purchases, and requests for money. From organizations that we have previously given money too, and some that we haven’t. Previously, I wrote about my experience giving money to non-profits last year as Christmas gifts for relatives that [...]

Anyone who knows me, knows that I tend to avoid Halloween like the plague. I think in the 6 years we were at the condo, we handed out candy once. And that was because our friend was living with us at the time and he wanted to hand out candy. But now I have a [...]

Last Friday, I was stitting around at work, minding my own business, when one of my co-workers started talking crazy about 3-5 inches of snow. A few hours later, weather.com started putting out crazy shit like predicting we were going to get 10-15 inches of snow. And that is when the PTSD of last winter [...]

For as long as I can remember, long before the husband and I were even anywhere close to actually getting married and having kids, I have sworn up and down that my child was not going to play soccer. Baseball, sure. But soccer, no. So you can imagine my surprise that it took a mere [...]

    We moved into a house that, while it has a small yard, has (for now, until we settle on a landscaping plan) a ton of very large, very leafy, trees. Which is a bit of an adjustment, as we come from a condo where we didn’t have to worry about any such things. [...]