Forget weekly or monthly budgeting. This one year budget--yes budgeting for a whole year at once--will change your life. When it comes to budgeting, people tend to think short term--budgeting week by week, paycheck by paycheck, or month by month. This is great for getting a close look at your ... read more
Net Worth Update December 2018
2018 is at an end. I don’t know why but the end of the year always catches me off guard. I guess it’s the one time of year when it feels like time is actually passing by, even more so than birthdays. Although the year ended on a high note personally--we’ve hit some many amazing milestones in our ... read more
How to Set Goals and Actually Achieve Them In 2019
I have always embraced the start of a new year as an opportunity to reflect and refocus on my life and goals. The holidays are over and things seem to slow for those few days afterwards as we all take a moment to breathe before the new year comes in and we're all off and out of the gates again. ... read more
5 Things to Do on Your Vacation Morning Routine
Last week, Joseph and I traveled to Orlando for a four-day conference. Without the kids. It was our first time traveling together without our children in over two years. We love family travel, but as we waited for our flight, we chatted about how excited we were to sleep in late and have ... read more
Preschool Back to School Essentials
This fall my two little ones are hitting major milestones: one is going to preschool and the other is going to college. Though my kids are in two very different life stages, there are two things that they have in common. The first is that neither is cheap. And the second is that they both call for ... read more
What Shonda Rhimes Taught Me About Money
I was first introduced to my love of photography in 2013 when Joseph bought me a Canon T5i for Christmas. I'd always loved to take photos but didn't recognize what I was doing as photography. I mean, nothing about disposable cameras screamed photography to me even though technically I did end up ... read more
