Sarah VanHoose
We also want to protect our kids that they do not repeat the same mistakes we made, don’t we? I’m sure that’s not just me that’s looking to help my girls avoid a bit of hurt and heartache in the future. Being a parent is some kind of special, isn’t it? The love and affection […]
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Ever play that game Taboo? You know, the game where you’re trying to get your friends and family to guess a particular word, but you’re not allowed to say the most common words associated with it? If you do, you get…the buzzer. The most annoying noise I’ve heard outside of this weird cat noise my
January 2020 has concluded! I’ve been posting regularly on the ‘new to me’ Instagram stories with weekly snippets about the upcoming weekly blogs, and also asking for questions on money related topics – then I answer them in a piloted Sunday series of Q&A. Jury is still out if we’ll keep this weekly format or
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You all know how I feel about Christmas gifts. Buying material things and stuff for the sake of things and stuff drives me crazy. There is so much waste, obligation, and expense of meaningless material possessions these days. We love doing Calendar Adventures for Christmas instead, and gifting a birthday party with friends and family
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Do kids even know what mind your own business mean? My oldest daughter has a tendency to be…involved…in everything that surrounds her. Not sure if it’s her age, or her firstborn status, or what – but it can be annoying to those whose personal business is on display. Most often, it’s her younger sister. Little
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Go from goal maker to goal taker. Get your head and your heart straight.
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Fitness is good for you. Of course it is, nobody is arguing with this fact. Eating a healthy and well-balanced diet is also good for you. Again, no arguments. We all inherently know that taking care of our bodies is the right thing to do – after all, we only get one. What about Financial
Last week I let you in on those good ‘ol college days when I was broke as a joke and eating carbs of all varieties just to keep myself warm. Today, I wanted to take you to a time in my life that I was a different kind of poor, and much more recent. Fast forward from
If you’ve hung around me much you’ve heard the highlight (or low light maybe) of my sophomore year of college when I was BROKE. It was a character-building kind of season I suppose. I was living off of the Eastern Washington University campus in a nearby little town about 20 minutes away in a mobile
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