Before my daughter was born, I thought that a child in my household would have an immediate and severe impact on my cost of living. What with all the extra laundry, clothing, furniture, baby entertainment devices, not to mention the vast array of products pertaining to the baby’s butt, I figured our bills go on a sharp incline. But it turns out we now rarely leave the house, which means we barely spend any money at all. So we set out to change that today, and went on a big shopping spree...

So it’s been a while since I’ve written anything on this blog, and that’s due in part to the string of bad luck my family has endured in the last month or two. It started small. Our garage door opener broke. I’ve always heard that homeowners have to do a lot of maintenance, but since I’ve only lived in a house for nine months, this was the first major home maintenance project I had to take on myself. Over the course of two weekends, my sister-in-law and I pieced together the parts of the ...