If you’ve been reading ELYM for any length of time you’ll know I’m a big fan of credit unions. I use one for all of my banking needs and have always been 110% happy with it. As I’ve been reading about all the drama with many commercial banks and lending institutions I started to wonder how my credit union was doing. All I needed to
About 6 years ago my wife just had to have a bread machine. We looked around for quite awhile and finally settled on a machine from Costco. The smell of fresh bread baking in the kitchen was quite a treat. Never mind that those first loaves cost us far more than just buying a loaf at the store. I think my wife had the desire
I have been having a terrible time knocking off the 20 pounds I really need to shed. For the last year or so I’ve been creeping up on the scale and all my clothes are getting rather uncomfortable. Every time I drop a few pounds, the clothes start fitting better and I give up, only to put the weight back on quickly. I had been
For the first time in a long time, we spent the weekend at home. We decided about a week ago that we were long overdue for just taking it easy and staying home on a weekend. We had absolutely nothing on the agenda for the entire weekend which was both good and bad. My wife would call it a good thing. She’s much more comfortable
The time has finally come. Our little girl is growing up and is entering kindergarten this Sept. While I am feeling many emotions ranging from fear of the unknown to happiness that my daughter is growing up, I also feel a bit of excitement that we’ll be seeing a very large expense reduced. For the last couple years we have been paying over $800 per