My Personal Life

This post is written in collaboration with Legrand. All opinions are my own. So, our kitchen remodel is has been basically done for a month and I haven't posted a thing! No Instagram Stories, nothing. I'm officially a bad blogger. I'll blame it on being pregnant and low on energy, which is true...but I do wish I would've documented more of the process. Oh well, yesterday I FINALLY took pictures so I […]

I've been talking a lot about our kitchen and flooring, both of which are very, very exciting. But there's actually something else going on my life that's EVEN MORE EXCITING! Dun dun dun...I'm pregnant again! And I'm already 21 weeks along!!! So to put it mildly, our life has been pretty busy. Pregnant, living in a construction zone, wrapping up a flooring project and a kitchen remodel, with two rambunctious […]

You ready for a looong post? It's time for a house update! A lot has changed since the last time I wrote about our plans to open up the kitchen and lay new flooring. There have been some exciting updates, like the wall coming down and our new flooring getting (mostly) installed...aaaand a few new developments that have thrown us into chaos and made our plans for the kitchen completely shift. You […]

This past year, I've gotten really interested in financial podcasts and blogs. In many of them, I noticed a common thread: "house hacking." The basic principle is to buy a house, live in a portion of it, then rent out the rest, so the rent covers your mortgage. Housing is usually one of your biggest expenses, so doing this is huge...you're essentially living for free! The most common example is […]