Over the past few years, I’ve noticed distinctive trends in the types of books I gravitate towards, especially during certain seasons of life. Considering that we’ve moved pretty much every 3 years since we’ve been married, perhaps it should come as no surprise that one niche I’ve read a lot of is memoirs that fall …
Weekly Frugal Wins // Piano Lessons at Home
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 …
Pregnancy Update: Halfway Point with Baby #4
I’ve never been great at doing pregnancy updates, but since this is my last pregnancy, I figured I could at least do a few. I did a similar update back when I was pregnant with my second, so I just took the same topics from that. I officially hit 20 weeks last Friday (Jan. 20). …
Grocery Spending Report: January 2023
Back when I was talking about how 2023 was probably going to be “The Year of Frugality” for us, I had several readers who were interested in me posting our grocery spending report each month, especially because by most counts, it’s pretty low. For some background, we’re a family of five consisting of two adults …
Weekly Frugal Wins // Frugal Vacations, Soap, and Duvets
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 …
Loving and Learning Lately {47}
Welcome to Round 47 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 …
Final Gender Reveal! We’re Having a…
Some women have a sixth sense about the gender of each of their babies (and often about the gender of other women’s babies, as well). I am not one of those women. For my first three children, I was 1 for 3 on predicting gender correctly. I thought my first was a boy (nope), my …
Weekly Frugal Wins // Home Haircuts
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 …