Summertime. A time for relaxing by the pool or sipping lemonade on the front porch. A time for sleeping in and vegging out in front of some sort of screen. A time for catching up with your favorite book or podcast. A time for new adventures on the road or a trip down the shore. … Continue reading I Had to Balance Working From Home While Having the Kids Home for the Summer… How I Did Not Lose My Marbles.
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Handling the New Home Inspection and Walkthrough Like a Pro!
Whether it’s the first home or the dream home, we all have our must have lists when looking for a new home. Even when everyone seemingly says “there’s no such thing as the perfect home,” there are still things that are absolute deal breakers for most of us. And I could speculate that one of… Continue reading Handling the New Home Inspection and Walkthrough Like a Pro!
We Got the Keys… Keys… Keys…
Closing Day! Or rather code, code, code- just cause, you know, we have a keyless entry door and all. Well, we made it. I was pretty positive we would but still in this market, you never quite know what can and/or will happen. When we found out we were coming to Florida for my husband’s… Continue reading We Got the Keys… Keys… Keys…
Making (Military) Money Moves
... during PCS season You have heard the story by now. The PCS from hell. The one where they didn’t send enough packers and then half our stuff ended up broken or unuseable. The one where we didn’t find out orders until 3 weeks before “Go-Time.” The one where my truck couldn’t finish the trip… Continue reading Making (Military) Money Moves
Who’s Gonna Advocate for You?
Spoiler alert... it's you! I've spent the better part of the last ten years studying on how I can better understand my kids' needs so that I could be the best advocate for them that I could possibly be. I have spent the majority of my career developing and mentoring young talent and advocating… Continue reading Who’s Gonna Advocate for You?
How I’m making remote working, work… with three homeschooling children and very little space
Upon starting my job, I received some things that I had never had for a job before. A cell phone and a laptop were among the bigger items. My employer expected me to be able to help my participants wherever they are because well, many of them don't have homes. My job was the first… Continue reading How I’m making remote working, work… with three homeschooling children and very little space
Finding Peace in the Pandemic
Post featured on Scary Mommy! Welcome to 2020. This year was full of so much promise as most new years are. A beginning of a new decade. The time for new promises to ourselves and our loved ones. We were all going to do better, be better this year. And as with most of… Continue reading Finding Peace in the Pandemic
10 years later
I am sitting down to write this blog post on about a total of 15 hours sleep over the last three days. No one said it would be easy, this momming thing. We are on day 24 of operation single parenting and man oh man I knew it would be tricky and very much exhausting… Continue reading 10 years later
A Month Into Working Motherhood- What I’ve Learned So Far
Greetings friends. It’s been a minute and there’s a good reason for that! I started my job!!!! It has been truly a blessing to get back into a working schedule, earning my own money that allows me to contribute to our household. We have been able to schedule two small vacations for this year… Continue reading A Month Into Working Motherhood- What I’ve Learned So Far
We are the Hands and Feet: Losing a Parent at a Young Age
Losing someone you love is hard. And there can be no competition about which is the hardest although I could never EVER imagine losing a child. No one should ever have to bury their baby. But loss is loss, and regardless of who it is, when we love someone and that someone is no longer… Continue reading We are the Hands and Feet: Losing a Parent at a Young Age
Outnumbered 