Frustrations about the Spending Freeze
Wow. Such an interesting dialogue about how people arrange who does what in a relationship to make it work. I’ve found all of it very enlightening and I k...
Author: noemikjames
Digging Deeper
I appreciated Polly’s comment on my last post. It got me thinking: Where were these feelings coming from? Why was I jealous of my own husband? In my respo...
Sometimes I wish I weren’t the default…
{I had no idea I had gotten so behind on responding to comments. I think I’m all caught up if you want to go back and check out the last few posts. ItR...
Summer Budget Project Week 3
This week was my best yet, which is good because next week there will be two big expenses, a plumbing bill (we have to get our leaky bathroom faucet fixed) and ...
Solo Routine
My husband was gone for five days and I settled into a nice routine. After the kids were in bed I did all the dishes, ran the dishwasher and cleaned up the kitc...
Some more thoughts (and responses)
Instead of commenting to each comment on my last post, I’m going to write another post that is pretty much one big response to all the comments. It might ...
Thoughts on Posting my Spending
So, my thoughts on posting about my spending. In a word? It’s been hard. Really hard. I don’t think I realized before how intensely personal spendin...
Summer Budget, Week 2
There were three big purchases this week: (1) I renewed our membership to the Discovery Museum because we always go way more than enough times to make it worth ...
Long Days
The second week of summer is almost done. It’s not been what I had hoped. It is exactly what I expected. I am reminded, yet again, that I would be a terri...