I recently finished Quitter: Closing the Gap Between Your Day Job & Your Dream Jobby Jon Acuff, and if you couldn’t tell from my last post, I enjoyed it. Since it was a library book, I couldn’t mark it up, so I kept a post-it note nearby to jot down notes. Here were a few […]
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7 Ways to Find Inexpensive Books
May 4th, 2013 
Jessica I love to read. I’ve read 15 books since Thanksgiving, which includes 4 eBooks and 11 regular books. I’m in the middle of reading 3 more books. My idea of the perfect vacation would include lots of time for reading in a peaceful and beautiful location. However, reading can become a very expensive habit if […]
De-Cluttering: Trash It, Sell It, or Donate It
November 28th, 2012 Jessica Recently I read Organized Simplicity by Tsh Oxenreider, and I really enjoyed it. I love to purge, simplify, and organize. I’m sure I don’t have to tell you that keeping a home clean and organized is an endless job–especially when you have children! I keep our home clear by classifying clutter as “trash,” “sell,” or […]
Repainting Our Hallway
November 26th, 2012 Jessica As I’ve stated before, October was Home Improvement month around our (rental) house. After I finished a painting for our church, I felt inspired to keep painting. I had wanted to paint our white hallway brown for a long time. I looked at my Pinterest boards to decide what shade I wanted, and then went […]
The Birch Tree Project (Part 2)
November 23rd, 2012 Jessica If you missed The Birch Tree Project (Part 1) you can read it here. After 5 days of painting, and 7 days of having the house in disorder while the furniture and kids were displaced, I was delighted with the finished product! The kids’ room rarely looks this neat! I had to shut them out […]
The Birch Tree Project (Part 1)
November 21st, 2012 Jessica When we moved into our new rental home, one of the first things I hoped to do was paint birch trees on the walls of the kids’ room. If you’ve explored my Pinterest boards, you probably saw some of my many ideas there. Life happened though, and other things took priority. Soon a year had […]
Inexpensive Autumn Decor
November 15th, 2012 Jessica Last year we’d only lived in our new home about a month when I blogged about decorating my home inexpensively for autumn. This year we’ve unpacked a little bit more, and we were able to decorate a little bit more. 1. Natural Beauty: During the last week of October my parents, sister, brother, and grandmother […]
Celebrating & Savoring A Simple Christmas: E-Book Giveaway!
November 13th, 2012 Jessica The Book: It has only been 3 weeks since Crystal Paine of Money Saving Mom released her 21 Days To A More Disciplined Life e-Book, and today she is releasing another new e-book! Celebrating and Savoring a Simple Christmasbreaks down your biggest holiday frustrations into bite-sized pieces. Crystal begins by creating a budget, and then […]
Book Review: Belly Laughs, Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff About Money, & Organized Simplicity
November 10th, 2012 Jessica Belly Laughs by Jenny McCarthy: When I picked this book up at the local library’s Used Book Sale, I had no idea who Jenny McCarthy was. Had I known, perhaps I could have saved myself the trouble! I do NOT recommend this book to Moms, expecting or otherwise. McCarthy makes pregnancy sound terrible and terrifying, […]
Book Review: Mountains Beyond Mountains
October 29th, 2012 Jessica Way back in 2008 we were traveling across China by train, when I asked our friend Wil about the book he was reading. It was Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder. Wil raved about the book and has, in fact, followed in Paul Farmer’s footsteps as he recently graduated from medical school. Mountains Beyond Mountains […]
