Christina M | December 31, 2008
If you do nothing else for yourself, make a commitment to work toward getting out of debt. If you don’t know how to do it on your own, I highly recommend Dave Ramsey’s help. We’re just getting started with The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness, and for the first time in […]
Christina M | December 30, 2008
Today marks the sixth anniversary of the smartest thing I’ve ever done. I hope you’ll bear with me for a moment while I pat myself on the back. I married one of the kindest, smartest, funnest, manliest, and most fertile men I have ever met. And despite three well-rehearsed “You! You did this to me!”s, […]
Christina M | December 24, 2008
If anyone wants to give me a Christmas present, please consider a donation to your church building fund, if you have one. Glory to God in the highest, and on earth, peace to men of good will!
Christina M | December 18, 2008
You may have noticed I’ve been more absent than usual recently. I’m trying, in addition to holiday cleaning, to prepare spiritually for OCDS Final Promises. For those who don’t know, OCDS refers to the Secular branch of the Order of Carmelites, Discalced. A secular, sometimes referred to as “Third Order,” is a member of a […]
Christina M | December 18, 2008
What do you do when you realize that a Monkeytot has written on your LCD (or other kind of) screen with permanent marker? You ask Artgal. And Artgal promptly tells you to use a dry erase marker to clean it. And it works. One caution: use Heloise’s advice, and wipe into the mark, not out […]