• Challenges,  Faith Building

    Big Life Decisions

    This could be my shortest post yet. I wrote awhile back about our change of plans for our Trophy Travel Trailer and promised to circle back with a post on some of the big decisions that Warren and I have made and why we made those decisions and why we don’t shy away from changing our minds and plans, sometimes often. I wrote the post. And then I deleted the post. It came off weird. A little too preachy and a lot too prideful. I wrote about some of our biggest decisions and filled the post with justifications, talk of no regrets, and blah, blah, blah. I hated it, so…

  • Finding Home,  Homespun

    FINDING HOME – CONTINUED

    Picking up where we last left off, I need to finish sharing the story of our “finding home” adventure. After we returned to Colorado from our 11-day trip to the Midwest, we were flying pretty high. We had explored possible areas to move to and we were already under contract on our house! Incredibly thankful to God for bringing us just the right buyers on day one of the listing, we knew our dreams of debt-free living were getting closer to becoming reality. We were also relieved that we would not have to live in our home while it was continually being shown to prospective buyers. Choices and Prayer The…

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    Homespun,  Young Victorian

    Selling Our Young Victorian; a Bittersweet Time

    I can’t write one more detail, describe one more project, or pick-up where I last left off without first talking about where we are today. Reliving the renovation of our Young Victorian up until this point, has been so much fun. Fun because I would be writing from my desk in my finished office and I could walk through our finished home, and I was on the other side of the renovation and left with nothing but pride and joy for the home Warren and I had created. Revisiting the renovation has been a delight and a fun reminder of our progress. A New Season But today, I’m not in…

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  • Challenges

    We’ve Lost the “Care” in Healthcare Insurance

    Care: the provision of what is necessary for the health, welfare, maintenance, and protection of someone or something Today’s topic: healthcare insurance and why we don’t have it anymore! Gone are the days when we worked for someone else and a healthcare deduction on a pay stub was right up there with payroll taxes and merely a dollar amount to be ignored. Oh those naive days when all that mattered was the deductible amount you’d pay at a doctor’s office, if there even was a deductible! After I resigned from my corporate job several years ago, we were introduced to the big, bad, ugly world of the self-employed health insurance…

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  • Challenges,  Faith Building

    Money Matters; The “T” Word!

    Just a little over a year ago, Warren and I signed up to attend a Dave Ramsey Financial Peace University (FPU) course offered through our church. It was life-changing and I’m not even exaggerating. I’m the designated bill payer in our family and managing our finances was always, let’s just say an “issue” for me. We are small business owners and our income has always been incredibly irregular. There’s no Medication for This Type of Irregularity Needless to say, Warren and I have had many a conversation about this irregularity. I was constantly asking how much we still had outstanding in accounts receivable so I could then guess how much…