I haven't been writing on my blog in a while, mostly because I've had a lot of real-life work to do! We have moved into our house, after doing a lot of updates. We had help with the floors, kitchen, and back door, but did a lot of painting and other small jobs ourselves. We have only done minimal decorating and unpacking, since we're ...

(Read about why I did this challenge, extreme poverty, day 1, day 2, day 3, day 4, and my fundraising campaign.) James and I have finished 5 day challenge of eating for $1.50 a day. We ate literally every last bite of the groceries we bought with our $15 at the beginning of the week. Here is everything we ate today: Some of the ...

(Read about why I'm doing the challenge, extreme poverty, day 1, day 2, day 3, or my fundraising campaign.) Today I ate pretty much the exact same things I ate yesterday. One of the best parts of today was knowing that after tomorrow, I can go back to eating normally again! This challenge has been hard, but, like many other "hard" ...

(Read about day 1 here, day 2 here, donate to my fundraising campaign here.) Today was the easiest day so far. Maybe I'm getting a little bit more used to eating "below the line"! Also, I was encouraged that so many people joined me in raising money for World Food Program USA. It's cool to see how many meals we've been able to give ...

(Did you miss day 1? Read about it here. Read about why I'm doing this challenge here. Support my campaign here.) In case you are wondering, I did not eat the free quiche. That would violate the guidelines of my challenge, because I cannot accept free food from people during these 5 days. But, interestingly, today I could have ...

James and I are living "Below the Line" this week by only spending $1.50 on our food each day. 1.4 billion people live on less than $1.50 a day for everything, not just their food. More info here. Yesterday, we went shopping for all our food. We had $15.00 to spend ($1.50 x 2 x 5). Here is a list of what we bought: Lots of ...

Since I signed up to Live Below the Line, lots of sad things have happened here in America. Sometimes it's easy to be upset about sad things that affect our fellow Americans, and remain distant and nonchalant about sad things that affect people in other parts of the world. Extreme poverty is a really sad thing that I have been learning ...

On Friday, we will close on our first house. The process of finding a house to buy was a few months of internet searching, school attendance zone mapping, mortgage calculating, finding houses we wanted to make offers on and seeing them get sold right before we made our offer, and then finally finding the house for us. If all goes ...

From April 29th to May 3rd, I will take the Live Below the Line challenge. For these 5 days, the cost of my food and drink for each day cannot exceed $1.50. (This doesn't mean I can just bum food off of other people, I must buy all the food myself.) My husband, James, has agreed to join me in this challenge. So before we start, we ...

I have a confession to make: I am judgmental.  (This probably doesn't come as a surprise...I'm sorry my confession wasn't more riveting.) Here are some common examples from my life: A girl walks into the gym in short shorts and a tight top. I don't even know her, but immediately I'm thinking that she's dressing that way to show off or to get attention. (It never occurs to me that she could be a totally nice person and just threw on that outfit ...