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This is just way too funny! Happy Halloween…if all panhandlers worked this hard, I’d probably contribute a little more.

We’re excited about the future, but while we rush to the next chapter, life is like a treadmill on high speed. It’s times like this where I have to put a dream out in front of me in order to get through all the work that needs to be done. My dream? A cabin in [...]

OK, I’m down in the basement digging through all the junk. I just can’t pitch this stuff, but am tired of lugging it around. It’s time to let it go. So….take a look and let me know if anything catches your eye and you can have it! The only thing that I ask is that [...]

Nathan is all about sunshine. It’s a good thing, because lately his sister Miika is like a little rain cloud. Maybe it’s Kindergarten, the kids she spends the day with, or perhaps she’s just tired, but everyday when I pick her up from school, she’s downright grumpy. So, we struggle. Miika never had terrible twos [...]

A friend recently introduced me to a yahoo group called, “Oak Park IL freecycle” where members post items that they want to get rid of and others post their wishes for what they need. At first I was overwhelmed by having my mailbox overflowing constantly, but now I’m starting to benefit. This week I was [...]

Well, we have a whopping 817 square feet to work with. This is the first chapter of downsizing a household and changing a lifestyle….completely. The way I figure it, we’ll have room for 1/2 of our furniture. Fortunately there are lots of little pockets of space throughout the building for storage. It’ll be an evolving [...]

I should really be on my knees singing the doxology. Four paychecks came in the mail today. In recent weeks as I’ve listened to the news about our country’s economic crisis, we’ve certainly been experiencing our own. But ours has not been a direct result of banks buying banks or mortgage foreclosures. And I guess, [...]

Paul and I have had the most intense week! His job became our job as we staged 4 apartments, a lounge and a courtyard for an international tour. I hardly know how to describe it except to say that we we worked 12-16 hour days, shopping, setting up, primping, cleaning, fussing and standing back in [...]