Living Underwater

Our best friends are buying a house. They were just like us - a family stuck in a townhouse that was underwater. They bought in 2005, and tr...

We're now 12% of the way toward our goal. We can now fill in another area on our floor plan goal tracker. I decided to "buy" t...

Hello there! I have not written much lately because life has been so busy. In fact, I ended up letting the kids stay home from school and da...

I think I should probably make the goal of this year-long project to blog as often as humanly possible instead of every day. Because I compl...

I know that at the end of this year of saving up to buy a single family house, I’m not going to be buying a “dream home.” That phrase conju...

Someone once suggested to me (OK, it was my therapist) that I should find a way to visually track my goal of saving for a down payment on a...

I wrote this post in 2011 about hosting in a small space, and while much of it is still true, as our family has grown, it's getting hard...