Tacos single handedly saved our finances. You heard me right. We went from over $120k in debt to living a life of financial freedom thanks to tacos. No, we’re not taco tycoons with endless income and franchising opportunities. We didn’t buy stock in Taco Bell. Nor did my great great grandmother invent that delicious taco […]
Seeing that it was something that is rarely talked about in the Financial Independence community, the amazing ladies over at Fire Drill Podcast invited us on for an interview on our IVF journey and infertility. “Jenny and Jimmy are the All-American couple. He was the hot firefighter that fell in love with the ER nurse. […]
Wen my husband and I first sat down and looked at our budget we realized we were spending more than $300 per week on groceries for TWO of us. That’s on top of eating out and not counting the meals we were getting eating at the in-laws for family dinners. That’s a ton of money […]
Starting out in our relationship 7 years ago we thought were doing well. We bought a large home together, both had the jobs we had worked hard for and loved, and had our wedding coming up. We seemed to be way ahead of our peers in the check off boxes of life and we were […]
Living Life Loving Us was nominated for the Liebster Award 2018! As a new blogger who is just doing something I love, I am beyond excited, honored, and all around tickled to be nominated for this award. I started this blog as a way to express my creativity, share some tips and admittedly mostly to […]
*This post is numbers intensive, and as a momma who is REALLY bad at math I promise, in the end it will all make sense (or cents…)!! Keep reading for how to save thousands on baby diapers!* “Baby’s are expensive” It’s all I seemed to hear once I got pregnant, and after spending a small […]
“How do get your husband to do the budget with you?” It’s a question I get asked almost on a daily basis. I talk endlessly at work, home and with my friends about budgeting. I get many of them on board and we lay out a budget for them, but then the inevitable happens. They […]
It’s 11:30 at night. You’ve got one eye on the baby monitor and the other on the clock. You’re just counting down the minutes until you should go back in and pick the baby up. You started putting the babes to bed at 7:45. You were lucky. She went down so easily. The sleep teaching worked. […]
Packing for yourself is hard enough, but packing for a BABY on a plane ride? Yikes! I’m normally an if we forget it we can just pick one up somewhere kind of girl, but being limited to what you can find in an airport can change that mentality. Therefore, I find myself looking for the perfect […]