Our culture constantly blasts the messages of success and more. Ads for online college, expensive cars and diamond jewelry define how to get ahead and what it looks like when you arrive. Maybe you have watched someone climb the ladder, move up the ranks. Can you honestly say having stuff has brought the happiness and…
Heavy with shoes, boots and clothing of every style, I drug the bags down the stairs, through the hall and hoisted it in my truck. Another bag of out-of-style everything was on its way to the thrift shop. From my closet and our girls’, the enormity of all we no longer wanted overwhelmed me. It…
When you’re young, you feel like you’ll always be young. Time will stand still and troubles never appear. We know that is not true. We have life experience that has taught us so much; lessons we want to pass on to our children without them having to learn them the way we might…
Yes, today I am going to throw myself under the bus…again! As the time for our first-born grew closer, Greg and I knew the 2-door sporty car I was not going to work when our baby arrived. But I wasn’t quite ready to give up the cool factor yet! So on a Saturday afternoon when…
I had found it! After having used furniture for quite some time, I was more than ready to buy a new couch. Not only was the sofa big enough to have our whole small group sit on, it was on sale! I couldn’t wait to get home and give Greg the great news! But the…
I couldn’t wait to furnish our first house! Every place I had ever lived was communal, whether it was the bedroom with my sisters or the dorm room at school. Now, I finally had a place for just Greg and I. I only lacked one thing – money! Our very small savings wouldn’t have bought…