The internet is all aflutter with hot toys and gadgets and must-haves for this Christmas season. Now, I’m not pointing fingers or saying that is wrong, and I’m not calling out any specific products either. But I AM saying that USUALLY… the “hottest” items also have really hot price tags. Yowza! And some of my readers might be looking for gifts a little less Yowza. I am very blessed with …
Leftovers
Posts that should be categorized somewhere else, how did they end up here?
WFMW – Counting Every Penny
Y’all, let’s face it. I am NOT the wisest spender in the world. Oh, I try to be. And I do really great most of the time, and then I fall. And I fall hard. Not because I ran out and intentionally blew a bunch of money we didn’t have and spat in the fact of wisdom. No. More likely because I didn’t realize I was spending as much, because …
Advent 2009: Expectation
Early dawn peeks in through a crack between the window curtains; you roll over and pull the covers over your head. You don’t want to get out of bed, but then your heart flutters and your breath catches — It’s Christmas morning! You’re up out of bed in a flash, running down the hall in your snowman jammies and sock feet thinking, Did Santa come? Are there presents yet? You …