I came across this article today:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/idhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32404017/ns/health-kids_and_parenting/32404017/ns/health-kids_and_parenting

and it made me feel a lot ( Read more... )

In a few hours, Camryn and I will pack up the van and head to Alabama. I'll drop her off at my mom's, drive to Auburn, get a pedicure with Kelly, and tomorrow morning she, Keri, and I will head toward the beach. There will be 6 of us, a girl's weekend at the beach to gossip, talk about kids, and most importantly......not have to worry about ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks ago, I realized that we could save the equivalent of one whole paycheck in the month of August, plus a little extra. Wow...what a nice reprieve from the busy-ness of July and the scrimping the first half of the year to pay off Andy's car ( Read more... )

We celebrated Camryn's 2nd birthday last weekend, and in typical Julie fashion, my camera died and the only pics from the party are ones my mom took, while I'm hoping to get ahold of soon. We had a great time though and it's always fun to get people from both mine & Andy's family together ( Read more... )

I hate that phone commercial that has the ad w/facebook with the girl who can't sing singing. So annoying ( Read more... )

For the past few days I've been in a funk, and it finally reared its ugly head today ( Read more... )

Camryn will be 2 in 2 weeks (tomorrow)...my baby is getting so big ( Read more... )

Well, as of this morning, our Elantra is paid off! Wow...feels so good to cross off another item on our snowball.

The past two weeks have been nothing if eventful, which is why I'm doing a mid-month update. Last time I posted about how we reduced our emergency fund to $500, and in a strange turn of events, Abbie's vet bills were $496. What a sense ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago when I had my rosacea (or whatever the eff it was) breakout, I typed in "rosacea" in the LJ "find" bar up in the top right hand corner, to see if I could find any relavent information.

Well my friends, I didn't find any information on rosacea, but I did find this gem of a community: realuglyfats . From their user info page: The community for ( Read more... )

For those of you who are my friends on facebook, you've already read this, but for everyone else ( Read more... )