What is your passion? Find your passion! Pursue your passion! I’ve been doing some thinking on my “passion” lately. It is a hot topic and gets a lot of air time these days, you know. If we could just find that elusive passion and pursue the heck out of it… we would surely be living…
Author Archives: Renee
Updated… Uptown Girl
What could be better than a two month “vacation” over Thanksgiving and Christmas, right? See Part 1 and Part 2 here. While the long vacation was nice, it unfortunately couldn’t last forever, wah! You know the saying, “It’s not WHAT you know. It’s WHO you know?” That once again proved true for me when someone…
Our Eternal Optimist
One recent Friday Davis and I were doing our weekly grocery shopping adventure. We had just finished Aldi and were back in the van ready to head to Walmart for phase 2. I handed my food lover a surprise snack of grapes and in his excitement he turned over his mostly full bottle of water…
Tor-Wade-o is Eight
Our Wild Wade is eight people. If you remember, we thought we were ready for #2 when Haylee was less than two herself. We had a long wait that finally successfully ended in our second round of IUI at a fertility clinic. Nine months later we had our Wild Wade. Looking back at these eight…
Updated… Going Nuclear
When I walked away from teaching I had no other job lined up and ready. (See part 1 here.) I had the possibility of a job that would start at the end of summer/beginning of fall, but nothing set in stone. That’s definitely what made planning anything so difficult and complicated. Thankfully, the job did…
Updated
It has been a while. I know. I’ve been through a lot of life stages with this blog o’ mine in the past 8+ years. I don’t know if I can pinpoint one specific thing that has pushed blogging to the back burner. It seems that it was a collection of things… primarily the STRESS…
Dressed Windows Finally!
Did ya miss me? I am back today to share some happy windows with you! We have been in our new place about 7 months now with curtains only in the living room. And that is only because that room had giant windows with NO blinds. Seven months later we now have prettily dressed windows…
The.Toys.Have.A.Place.
Ahhhh. Can you hear my sigh of contentment? The toys in our house have.a.PLACE. One of the things we love about our new house is the bonus room, aka… playroom! Previously in our cozy 2 bedroom house, all the toys had to find a place inside the one bedroom that all three kids shared, which…
Menu Monday… no school!
Chicken Noodle Casserole via Blogchef image via Things we Heart Vegetable Soup via Poor Amy {image via Aldi Reviews} Take & Bake Pizza from Aldi’s If your recipe was featured today, feel free to grab a button! What are you eating this week? To save money this week, I took…
Author Archives: Renee
Pursuing your Passions
What is your passion? Find your passion! Pursue your passion! I’ve been doing some thinking on my “passion” lately. It is a hot topic and gets a lot of air time these days, you know. If we could just find that elusive passion and pursue the heck out of it… we would surely be living…
Updated… Uptown Girl
What could be better than a two month “vacation” over Thanksgiving and Christmas, right? See Part 1 and Part 2 here. While the long vacation was nice, it unfortunately couldn’t last forever, wah! You know the saying, “It’s not WHAT you know. It’s WHO you know?” That once again proved true for me when someone…
Our Eternal Optimist
One recent Friday Davis and I were doing our weekly grocery shopping adventure. We had just finished Aldi and were back in the van ready to head to Walmart for phase 2. I handed my food lover a surprise snack of grapes and in his excitement he turned over his mostly full bottle of water…
Tor-Wade-o is Eight
Our Wild Wade is eight people. If you remember, we thought we were ready for #2 when Haylee was less than two herself. We had a long wait that finally successfully ended in our second round of IUI at a fertility clinic. Nine months later we had our Wild Wade. Looking back at these eight…
Updated… Going Nuclear
When I walked away from teaching I had no other job lined up and ready. (See part 1 here.) I had the possibility of a job that would start at the end of summer/beginning of fall, but nothing set in stone. That’s definitely what made planning anything so difficult and complicated. Thankfully, the job did…
Updated
It has been a while. I know. I’ve been through a lot of life stages with this blog o’ mine in the past 8+ years. I don’t know if I can pinpoint one specific thing that has pushed blogging to the back burner. It seems that it was a collection of things… primarily the STRESS…
Dressed Windows Finally!
Did ya miss me? I am back today to share some happy windows with you! We have been in our new place about 7 months now with curtains only in the living room. And that is only because that room had giant windows with NO blinds. Seven months later we now have prettily dressed windows…
The.Toys.Have.A.Place.
Ahhhh. Can you hear my sigh of contentment? The toys in our house have.a.PLACE. One of the things we love about our new house is the bonus room, aka… playroom! Previously in our cozy 2 bedroom house, all the toys had to find a place inside the one bedroom that all three kids shared, which…
Menu Monday… no school!
Chicken Noodle Casserole via Blogchef image via Things we Heart Vegetable Soup via Poor Amy {image via Aldi Reviews} Take & Bake Pizza from Aldi’s If your recipe was featured today, feel free to grab a button! What are you eating this week? To save money this week, I took…
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I'm Renee... Daughter of God, Wife to a Superhero, and Mom to 3 wild ones. I love all things thrifty, reading all the amazing books of the world, and whatever I can do to save time in the kitchen.
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