Public vs private school

You know, I’m not exactly sure what’s better. All I know is that we are currently struggling to pay our bills so I don’t see any way that we can continue to have Noah in private school when he gets to kindergarten age next year – unless I go back to working full-time that is. [...]


OurFirstMarriage #20: Jobs

We discuss our job situation and some of the decisions we’ve made in order to spend more time with our children. Tom shares some of the satanic bosses he’s worked for and some of the techniques he’s used to manage them. We discuss tattoos, how persistence will get you the job eventually, how big gestures [...]


OurFirstMarriage #8: Fake it til you make it

Money, work, and the choices we make. Getting back to work after a long absence is hard but not impossible. It’s all about choices. Check with us next week for an interview with parents of an Autistic boy. Insights into their trials, tribulations, and successes. Should be very enlightening. See you then!


Do I miss LA?

We lived in Los Angeles for about 4 years when we were first married. I recently met someone who had lived in/near LA for 30 years so it brought back memories. I spent the first two years of living there hating it – newly married and living with my husband for the first time across [...]


More on working

If I didn’t have to work, would I still work? I would like to think not. But, who knows. I’m of the mind that until you’re faced with the decision, you really don’t know. I work for a really great company. I have a pretty decent work schedule. The work is relatively rewarding. Am I [...]


Working part-time

I love working part-time. I work from 7 AM to 1 PM Monday through Friday. That’s 30 hours a week – the number of hours I have to work to make ends meet (barely). Now, don’t get me confused with an early riser type of person – that’s definitely not me! It’s just what I [...]