Products and Books I'm Enjoying in March 2023

Loving and Learning Lately {48}

Welcome to Round 48 of this little series I started of all the things in life I’m loving and learning lately! Here you’ll find everything from the books I’m currently reading to the products I’m loving to the shows I’m watching (which, spoiler alert–won’t be very many or very exciting, since I’m not a huge …

Weekly Frugal Wins // Potty Training + Toddler Beds

This is a new series in the style of The Frugal Girl’s Five Frugal Things, where I’ll be posting weekly(ish) about what I’ve done lately to save money and make things stretch in order to further our financial goals, which currently include us paying off a decent hunk of debt. I encourage you to play …

How 10 Years of Pursuing Minimalism Has Changed Me

Just over ten years ago, I published a post titled “Thoughts on Minimalism,” which was all about this new minimalism movement I’d recently discovered that I quickly became obsessed with. I talked about the modern influencers I’d found whose ideas I rapidly started devouring, and I also talked about classic examples throughout history of people …

Pregnancy Update Baby #4: Finally In the Last Trimester

Today I hit 27 weeks and am officially in the third trimester of my very last pregnancy. I was randomly calculating numbers the other day (because that’s how my brain works), and I figured that by the end of this pregnancy and including all miscarriages, I will have spent about three and a half years …

spring flowers ready for arranging

Weekly Frugal Wins // Tulip Orders + Cheap Medicine

This is a new series in the style of The Frugal Girl’s Five Frugal Things, where I’ll be posting weekly(ish) about what I’ve done lately to save money and make things stretch in order to further our financial goals, which currently include us paying off a decent hunk of debt. I encourage you to play …

Officially Hitting the Third Trimester…Come On, Nesting Urge! {March 2023 Goals}

Whew, February usually goes by pretty fast (ya know, short month and all), but this year I feel like it went by glacially slow. I blame the snow. The endless, endless snow. We haven’t seen our grass since November, and we also haven’t seen temperatures above about 40 degrees since November. Most of the time …