Frontporchmom's Personal Finance Blog

Happy Anniversary!!

kaw384@yahoo.com (midwest mom) — Sun, 20 May 2007 10:42:28 PST

May 17th was my wedding anniversary. I WOULD of been married for 21 years this past week. It is also the anniversary of my BLOG! It has been ONE YEAR!! Thank you for having me around and for reading what I post. I enjoy writing and I LOVE reading everyone's blogs as well. What a great...

Spending Less

kaw384@yahoo.com (midwest mom) — Sun, 20 May 2007 10:39:38 PST

Hello frugal friends! Since I am back to working part time I sense that my budget may be better off. Yes I am earning, but I feel somehow that in turn I am spending less. I am not sure why. I am not in the grocery store as much or running little errands. I seem to be saving on gas...

Hello Friends

kaw384@yahoo.com (midwest mom) — Sun, 13 May 2007 17:57:50 PST

Oh my--I am not too good at writing on a regualr basis. I apologize. Just so busy now that I am working a bit. I am still liking my job and find it very interesting at times. Saturday I had to train to do many jobs as I am the only one around on Saturdays. It was fun ---yet hard work....

I am back!

kaw384@yahoo.com (midwest mom) — Tue, 08 May 2007 19:11:14 PST

Sorry for not writing for so long.....not exactly sure why but just busy! Hello to all!

I did start my job and so far so good. My first day I was pretty nervous. I seem to be doing ok because the first day I trained under another lady....then the next day I was on my own! I must...

Menu for the week

kaw384@yahoo.com (midwest mom) — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:43:35 PST

Sunday-Chix drumsticks,rice,corn, strawberries or applesauce

Monday
Breakfast-bisquits and jelly
Dinner-slow cooker chix and stuffing, fruit , green beans, corn muffins

Tuesday
Breakfast-hash browns
Dinner-kids eat with dad, no cooking

Weds
Breakfast-waffles, sausage
Dinner-...

Great Weekend

kaw384@yahoo.com (midwest mom) — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:18:54 PST

Well we had our last dance weekend and it was fun. Nice time! It ended up being frugal beyond my expectations! Saturday-we ate lunch at the place where we performed.....$16 for two. Which is not bad at all for catered on site food service. We had huge salads, waters, a huge fresh fruit...

A Sad Day

kaw384@yahoo.com (midwest mom) — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:49:04 PST

What a terrible event that has happened at VA TECH. My sister teaches in the engineering department at VA TECH. Thankfully she was not on campus on Monday. Our hearts go out to the whole college and town. It sure makes one pause and reflect how fleeting life is.

Not too much to...

Greetings!

kaw384@yahoo.com (midwest mom) — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:29:15 PST

Hope everyone had a lovely Easter. I visited my family and we stayed overnight and drove back on Monday morning. We had a nice visit. My son stayed with his dad. It all worked out very well. It was last minute as I was not planning on going and staying overnight,but my sister was visiting...

This and That

kaw384@yahoo.com (midwest mom) — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 05:49:26 PST

Had a busy week with Dr apts for my kids...nothing big or terrible, mostly check ups and follow ups. My son was diagnoised with some allergies and some asthma. So that proved interesting.

I have our school auction today. Last night I spent time setting up the sale with the many...

Wonderful weekend

kaw384@yahoo.com (midwest mom) — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 18:39:24 PST

Had a great weekend with my daughter dancing and doing her National History day stuff. She won for NHD and so we get to drive to our state capital and present it again with other state finalists! What a thrill for her. Lots and lots of work and preparing and it really felt great to...

Keeping busy

kaw384@yahoo.com (midwest mom) — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:32:33 PST

This week I paid all my taxes for the start of the year. I make some more payments in June. It was both exciting and scary! I was glad to have completed my taxes with the help of a pro and scary writing those checks out! I am downtown all weekend for a school event my daughter won...

Weight Loss Update

kaw384@yahoo.com (midwest mom) — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 17:02:45 PST

Not to bore anyone but I wanted to update you all. As you may or may not know, I had gastric bypass surgery on Dec. 7th 2006. I weighed myself today and I have lost a total of 67 pounds since surgery. I have no regrets and am happy with my weight loss so far. I need to excersie more....

Success at the Doctors

kaw384@yahoo.com (midwest mom) — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 18:43:34 PST

Today my youngest dd and I went to see an alergist. After two hours of testing and procedures it was ruled that she does have asthma. I just had that mothers gut feeling and I was proven correct. I now have some better health information and more to work with to help her. Next I am...

Happy St Patricks Day!

kaw384@yahoo.com (midwest mom) — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:33:48 PST

I have some Irish in me so I wanted to wish everyone a nice St. Pat's Day and weekend. My kids get to wear green to school on Friday. Awhile back I purchased some hair ribbon that said "Irish Blessings" all over it,in green and white. It is simply darling. So I hope to have each of...

Yes..more spending

kaw384@yahoo.com (midwest mom) — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:27:36 PST

In order to finish the science fair board for Friday we needed more glue sticks! So off to Walgreens we ran tonight! We purchased two packages. I did use cash all day today. That made me feel better in a small way. Gosh-I feel very nickeled and dimed a bit here. It is good to be aware...

I already spent money!!!!

kaw384@yahoo.com (midwest mom) — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:04:21 PST

Ok I decided to come clean! I already spent about three plus dollars. I stopped by the Pep. Farm outlet and bought two packages of milano cookies....$1.25 for two. I also spent $2.13 on 16 plastic hangers. For some reason alot of my hangers are gone. I need them for my drying rod to...

Trying not to spend

kaw384@yahoo.com (midwest mom) — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 05:26:07 PST

I am trying to not spend. It sure is not easy. I am not doing this for a specific time frame....just trying to think out things before hand and not venture into any stores. How is your savings account doing? I was having a chat with a mom at school. She was telling me how she was...

Small Goodwill deal

kaw384@yahoo.com (midwest mom) — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 14:48:36 PST

Today I stopped at Goodwill. Normally I never go in on a Saturday. Today I had two daughters and we decided to stop by for a quick peek. Nothing too great. I bought a cute little purse...brand new. It is a fabric purse style in very bright pink. It has black accents, in perfect never...

Spring is near!

kaw384@yahoo.com (midwest mom) — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 17:22:36 PST

Today was a rather nice and warm day here. We were out and about. My dd got a new cell phone, we ate at Burger King and we went shopping for jeans for the other dd. All in all kinda of a spending day. It was all looked upon as a treat and also we did buy items that were needed. We...