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The Power of the Positive
Last Friday, Matt was out of town and I was alone with both boys. I ordered dinner via Favor, which is my new favorite way to “make a clearing” and reduce the stress in my life. (Full Disclaimer: My brother-in-law works for favor, but my affinity for them is completely objective!)Right when the delivery arrived, Henry came running out of the restroom. He had nothing but a shirt on, and he was exclaiming, “Mama! I have poop on my foot!”The details of how that happened are not relevant to my point, so I’ll spare you the gory details….Anyway, as I was helping Henry clean up the… Read More -
Home Tour: Austin
Master bedroom
Tate’s bedroom
Henry’s bedroom
Kitchen/Dining/Living
Other direction
Living room
Entryway
Boys’ bathroom
Back of the house
Backyard firepit
BackyardI can’t believe we’ve lived here for more than a year and a half and I haven’t featured a home tour! Sorry about that. (Here’s the tour of our old house in Houston, if you’re interested).As a recap of the process, Matt and I purchased architectural plans that were already in existence, which helped reduce the overall cost. This was the third time this particular house has been built in Austin. Because we were able to find an odd-shaped piece of empty land that was priced inexpensively,… Read More -
Budget Update
I wanted to check back in about how our new budget monitoring is going. Here’s the good, the bad, and the downright ugly.- I am loving Mint.com. The app is particularly helpful because it is super easy to use on a daily basis to stay on top of our expenses. It doesn’t always categorize things the way we want to categorize them (for example, it says P.Terry’s is “fast food” and we just want to lump it under our general “Restaurant” expenses). Getting everything into the right category is integral to monitoring our budgets in the right way.
- In addition to categorizing certain expenses, I like to look at the
