I spent valentine’s day by the warm fire in my North Carolina vacation home. While my husband worked out in the yard, I lounged on the couch with a book, sipped lemonade and simply enjoyed being. As the sun set I drove to the spa and enjoyed a fifty minute deep tissue massage. Now back …
So far I haven’t written any resolutions or decided on any new goals for the new year. Instead I want to spend the last day of the decade focused on all of the wonderful things that have happened over the last ten years. While I experienced my fair share of bumps in the road the …
This year my husband and I agreed to stick to a holiday budget. As the year came to a close we refinanced both of our properties and paid quite a bit in closing costs and other mortgage related fees. We also spent nearly $2,000 on two short trips that were long overdue. The members of …
For the first time in many, many years I had very few unwanted gifts to return to the store. In fact, I had only two gifts for myself and one gift that I bought for my grandmother. Luckily my returns were a breeze. I had receipts for everything that didn’t work out and stood in …