Thank you JCPenney Optical for sponsoring this post. Visit your local JCPenney Optical to find your perfect frames! It’s that time of year again. The time where moms and dads toast to the return of a ‘normal’ schedu ...
Today is Madison’s last day of Junior High. In a couple short months she will officially be a high school student. With each day, I continue to see changes in how she presents and expresses herself from head to toe. A month or so ago ...
At 47 years old, you would think that I would have outgrown the problem of blushing whenever someone mentions anything unmentionable. Yes, I turn beet red at the slightest inference to (shhhh) S-E-X. But I’m also talking about the oth ...
Once (or twice) upon a time in a prior life, I was a direct marketing rep. This was well before you could hawk your wares on the internet so the landscape of the business was very different back then. We held actual events in homes or at th ...
As I stand at my sink washing dishes, I look outside and see some leaves on the trees turning beautiful colors while others lay on the ground waiting for someone to rake them up. I’m filled with a mixture of emotions as I try to navig ...
Sometimes I wonder what kinds of shoes I owned as a kid. My mom had cowboy boots that I loved (and wore whenever possible) and a pair of clogs I happily borrowed when I was in about 6th grade. That’s about all I remember though. Aroun ...
I remember when I was a tween and desperately wanted to wear what everyone else had. By the time I hit high school, I had given up on trying to follow other fashion trends and decided just to do my own thing, wearing a denim jacket and pink ...
We don’t hide our thrifty nature. It’s something we’re proud of and regularly discuss the amazing deals we find at thrift stores. Sometimes we discuss other deals we discover and last September I told you about the PatPat ...
With fewer than 2 weeks left in the Christmas season, have you finished all of your shopping? I have to embarrassingly admit I still have a couple that I’m having a hard time buying for. You know the type – the ones that really ...
As a mom, I like to tease my kids about how they are growing up too fast. It’s halfheartedly a joke and half completely serious. Everyone says that babies become children then graduate then become adults all in the blink of an eye. It ...
