Health Struggles and Household Management

A lot of what I know about managing a home comes from my family. However, my family’s view of home management is a bit unusual for two primary reasons. The first is that we are primarily artists and geeks who are usually more interested in creative and intellectual pursuits than maintaining a house. The second

Budgeting Basics (With Free Printables)

A couple weeks back, I was trying to create a budget template on Canva. However, I noticed when I was looking through their already available templates for budgets, half of what labeled as budgets were actually cash flows. What is the difference between a budget and a cash flow? A budget is a plan for

Home Management Lessons I Learned from Theater

“All the world’s a stage, and all the people merely players in it” – Jaques in As You Like It by William Shakespeare This is probably the most famous Shakespearean quote. Theater and reality are connected, and there are lessons learned in theater that can be applied across disciplines, even on subjects that seem completely

Lessons And Regrets From My Wedding

I had basically no resources available to me when I got married. I was a young college student, and money was tight. My husband’s sister got married just two months before we did, and my own sister got married one week after that. Both our families had already traveled that year because of their weddings,

Divorce

Divorce. There have been several times before that I have felt unqualified when writing one of these blog posts due to my lack of personal experience on it. This topic takes the cake, though. It is an important subject though so I will try to address it the best I can. I have (thankfully) never

Parenting

What makes parenting good? I suppose I would define good parenting as parenting that meets a child’s needs and teaches them how to be able to have success presently and in the future. Children have several basic needs that need to be met, and when they are not met, the child frequently develops a mistaken

Family Finances

Why are finances so important? I took my first personal finance course when I was in the 7th grade. I probably paid more attention than most of my classmates. I’m actually taking a college-level personal/family finance course currently, and several other classes I’ve taken in between have had units on finances. It seems to be

Communication and Decision Making

Being able to talk to someone to come to decisions is an important skill in families, in the workplace, and with friends. Communication seems simple, but it can get a bit complicated. We cannot just transmit our thoughts/feelings directly into the mind of someone else. We have to find words to express them and a

Dealing with Life

Difficult times are a fact of life. Even things that are good can be really difficult. For example, I’ve talked in a previous post about difficulties with transitioning into marriage (link to post here). Being married is a good thing, but it’s still a change and it’s hard. Other things are even harder to deal

Physical Intimacy and Gender Differences

Physical intimacy is not something I am very comfortable discussing. This post is built to be purely informational on how sex is experienced differently for men and women and how that can lead to misunderstandings. This information can be very important for newlyweds or those struggling with their sexual relationships with their spouse.   One