My future step son is old enough to get his learner’s permit this year and begin learning to drive. My fiance is worried about his auto insurance quotes going up in order to cover a teen driver and is not sure he is ready to put his son on the policy.
Mike is pretty patient and […]
I would consider myself to be an extremely organized person. I was always taught that there was a place for everything and if everything was in its place than you would always be able to find it.
My mother always had a closet that was for gifts. Whenever she would find things on sale, she would […]
Some of the fondest memories I have of childhood were those that happened at summer camp. I made some really great friends and I loved being outdoors and playing games, running obstacle courses and going swimming. For this reason, I decided that I was absolutely going to be sending my own kids to summer camp.
My […]
It seems about every other day there’s more gadget news. Whether it’s the latest video game console, a cooler way to type and send text messages, or a new music device, electronics are here to stay and are developing at a pace that is almost too much to keep up with.
But for all our high […]
My oldest child is in kindergarten this year and every year is like this one I am certainly not going to be happy with the amount of fundraising that we as parents are expected to do. I don’t know how many promotional items he has brought home this year to sell, as I’m sure it […]
For one of my psychology classes when I was going to college I was writing an essay on keys to a happy relationship. It was one of the more difficult essays that I’ve ever written but it was also one of the more fulfilling ones as I learned a lot about the relationships I had […]
When I was accepted into medical school, I think it was the happiest day of my dad’s life. He was so proud of me and that made me sad because at that point, I knew that I absolutely did not want to be a doctor. I enjoyed making people feel better, but I just did […]
The problem with wood decks is knowing when to put on the deck sealer. The year we built our deck, the summer sun came out with a vengeance, starting Memorial Day, the weekend we built it. The mercury soared to 100 degrees and higher, and didn’t let up until late August. Guess where I spent […]
My grandfather passed away a month ago and he left several larger pieces of property that we have to figure out what to do with. One of those things was a rather large RV. This thing is bigger than the home I live in now and one of our problems is figuring out where to […]
My friend makes wedding cakes for a living and while I was visiting her shop before we went out to dinner one evening recently, I was looking through some of her trade magazines which feature all sorts of wedding related items, including some of the most extravagantly priced engagement rings. Some of them were well […]
