Money Resolution?
December 31, 2007 by Tracee Sioux
Filed under Parenting
Are you an average American? Have $10,000 in credit card debt and no money in your savings account? Is your New Year’s Resolution to get off the futile never-ending minimum payment treadmill. It may be time for Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University.
It’s a series of 13 classes in churches and community centers around the country. You meet in a group to watch these hilariously entertaining videos about money – can you believe math and finance is interesting and funny?
Then you interact with a group getting moral support. You know, sharing a goal with like-minded people can help you keep …read more
Anal Retentive Compulsions in 2008
December 26, 2007 by Tracee Sioux
Filed under Parenting
My 2008 resolution is to become compulsively anal retentive.
I wish I had your organizational gene, I recently told my mother. Now that I’m in my mid-30s I’m experimenting with admitting my mother was right about a few things. It hurts a little, but I’m hoping the emotional growth will reap some rewards.
I don’t have that gene. I realized I had a severe lack in that area so I majored in it in college [home making] to develop it, she responded.
So, now I have something worth cleaning and organizing (my new house) and enough space for everything to have a place, …read more




