That would be in reference to the van being at the garage. You may remember Brian being in a car accident last month, hard to believe it’s been a whole month already. And I mentioned that we were supposed to have the van back, Monday they had told us. Well, last Friday [...]

I heard on the news that they were calling for a second stimulus check plan because gas and food prices have gone up (insert insane percentage the lady said here… I can’t remember the number it was too jaw dropping) since the first stimulus checks were planned, and foreclosures are happening at alarming rates. [...]

Well, actually I’m trying not to think about it as bad news. At first, I was devastated and heart broken and felt like I was being kicked while I’m down. Now that I’ve had a few hours to calm and compose myself, shed a few tears of frustration, and get it all out [...]

It began like any other day. Brian got up and headed off to work. The kids had breakfast and watched cartoons until about 8:00 am, then went to get dressed and ready for school. I started watching something… I don’t even remember what it was now. At approximately 8:15 our day [...]

Funny titles aside, I just broke yet another tooth in my mouth. Right in half …. and not even on anything hard, just having a sandwich. Do you think the tooth fairy will bring me a couple thousand dollars worth of new teeth?
I think that gives me a total of five that [...]

You annoy me even more now than before. Not only did you take a wonderful picture of my handsome boys, you got wise to my single sheet purchase and eliminated the option from the school picture order forms! Extra sheets can only be purchased with a package. And then you knew I [...]

So, it’s tax time and you get to thinking about your budget and your income and all that other stuff. Brian’s W2 came this weekend, finally. That’s the first piece of anything we’ve gotten for our taxes so far. I don’t know how I ended up at EPI (Economic Policy Institute) but [...]