Our home when we bought it wasn’t in the best shape. We wanted a fixer upper because we like having projects, but there was also the reality that we couldn’t afford a home that already looked exactly the way we dreamed. When we put the offer down on the home, we accounted for a few […]
Big and little improvements Read More »
Halloween is only a couple days after my birthday, and as a kid, I really loved that. It almost felt like all my neighbors were giving me gifts, I just had to walk around to get it. But as I got older, Halloween became less and less fun. My parents had a rule where I
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I recently turned 23 and was asked a couple of times how I wanted to celebrate my birthday. I had a hard time coming up with ideas but the one thing that I was pretty sure that I wanted to do was to wake up at sunrise and hike at a state park. A couple
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Growing up, I scored highly on some statewide and national standardized tests. This led to me being removed on occasion from class, to then be given more tests. I could pick a spot in a row of desks spaced out from the other kids next to me, who had also been removed from their classes.
It’s only embarrassing if you’re embarrassed. Read More »
