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Something Insightful Home About Books Photography Meow! Offspring Something Insightful Random Thoughts… And A Little Extra Everything Old is New. January 3, 2023 Back in December of 2004 I was a 24 year old, fairly newly married wife of an Air Force Lieutenant who lived in Florida as a teacher while my husband traveled the world stationed out of New Jersey. That year, shortly after Christmas, we went up to New Jersey... Isolation | Part 2 of ? April 2, 2020 This morning I got woken up by a small person at 6:20am. I realized that on any other Thursday morning I’d be up, dressed, yelling at kids, making my lunch, pouring coffee, you know basically doing normal morning things. Instead, I rolled over and attempted to go back to... Isolation | Part 1 of ? March 19, 2020 On Monday I told the kids I wanted them to do an assignment. They loudly complained since it is technically their spring break right now but I told them I wanted them to keep a journal which will be a primary source document for future generations as what we... Giving Up Shopping for Lent | Final Update April 8, 2018 Happy Easter (a little late)! Lent is over! I saw this through to the end but then forgot to update. When I was asked by the 5th person how things went I figured it was probably best to write a final post. So did I make it? The strictest... Giving Up Shopping for Lent | Update 4 March 14, 2018 Well it’s been over a month since I started this endeavor. I confess I did fall of the wagon so to speak, just a little bit, last week. As my husband joked, yeah, you really went to town there! I got a fantastic coupon for school uniforms which have... Giving Up Shopping For Lent | Update 3 March 6, 2018 This is hard y’all. I have always loved shopping and even when I don’t really have the money to shop I have still enjoyed browsing. I love walking through stores and getting ideas for future projects. Good, bad, or indifferent, I get a small thrill from buying something fun... Giving Up Shopping for Lent | Update 2 February 26, 2018 Well accountability in this form sure is a powerful motivator! This week continued to go well as far as shopping goes but I did have to make an exception. I went ahead and bought more carpet cleaning solution for our machine. Most everyone in our house suffers from allergies... Giving Up Shopping for Lent | Update 1 February 19, 2018 Well today is Sunday so it’s my normal grocery day. I didn’t make a list, I didn’t load the kids into the car, I didn’t spend an hour+ at Target getting groceries. I didn’t spend time unloading and putting them all away (or yelling at the kids to do... Giving Up Shopping for Lent February 19, 2018 I haven’t really used this platform regularly in a while but then on February 13th I announced that I was giving up shopping for Lent. My post read: For the sake of accountability… This year I’m giving up shopping for Lent- that’s ALL shopping including groceries. I took one... 2018 January 4, 2018 Here it is 2018 and the last time I posted it was the last day of 2014. So much has changed since that last post that I feel like an imposter here, looking in at someone else’s life. For one thing, we doubled the number of children we had... Posts navigation 1 2 3 … 27 Emily. 41. Mother of 4. Swim Mom. Dance Mom. Wife. Former Teacher. Sister. Daughter. Cat Lover. Occasional Photographer. 4th Gen Floridian. © 2024 Something Insightful | Powered by Customizable...