I'm now introducing a new feature.... or type of blog....to this site called Style Stories that I hope you'll have fun shopping and browsing at your leisure. You can also find these posts listed under the category Shop the Story. I'll incorporate the idyllic aspects so intrinsic to Maine with wonderful products I've discovered on Amazon to help transport you....even if it is only from your armchair. Enjoy!
I've moved the Romantic Mom Blog....you can find me over here! Feel free to visit my archives....in fact, please do! ...as well as all the links, gadgets, and buttons in the sidebar. Come join me and see what's new! : D
I'm now introducing a new feature.... or type of blog....to this site called Style Stories that I hope you'll have fun shopping and browsing at your leisure. You can also find these posts listed under the category Shop the Story. I'll incorporate the idyllic aspects so intrinsic to Maine with wonderful products I've discovered on Amazon to help transport you....even if it is only from your armchair. Enjoy!
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Well, for some bizarre, yet to be explained by Weebly reason my photos aren't going up, that's what's up....or what's not up. Soooo, I wanted to post a few links I've come across recently....since I can't share the photos from along the coast I took last Sunday...gorgeous wild flowers....blue sky, ocean....so incredibly full of color right now! (I'm seriously considering moving this blog over to Blogger. I'll let you know if I decide to defect!)
By the way, speaking of photos, I came across this site called The Photographer's Life...great tips on how to turn your photos into cash. Love the concept....as I'm sure many of you camera-slinging-types like me do, too! Recently I just finished the Total Money Makeover book by the 'King of No Debt' David Ramsey that my friend, Denise G. loaned to me. What a great book....wish I'd read it like YEARS ago. Better late than never, huh. I'm eager to get the wallet with the cute little handy-dandy envelope system in it....and yes, actually put it to use! Also along the 'Budget' lines, I've been perusing the Money Saving Mom site....a very cool site my frend, Heather, has referred me to on several occasions....but I never took the time to really dive into it. Silly me, once again! She's got so many tips and coupons, and ideas...great for the 'home economist' as she puts it. What else is not up? We went to go look at the wonderful farmhouse that I was really hoping would work out for us. However, it appears there are going to be some snags with that whole deal. Not sure if we can work through them eventually....or if we need to move onto some other plan. Keep you posted on those developments. Wrestling with the question of do we rent or do we try to buy? Right now we're majorly leaning in the rent direction....for a number of reasons. I guess I'm just looking for a stepping stone at the moment. Something that allows us to re-group and be more flexible at this stage of life. I know the idea of renting is totally un-American, but it sounds rather appealing to me...at least at the moment. Meanwhile, I did make my own nest in the Twitter tree....finally. Been holding out for how long now? You can take a look at my tweets over in the sidebar...or feel free to join in on the conversation. And guess what...I can't get any photos to load in my profile box there either. What's not up with this stuff??? Hang in there with me....hope to have some new photos loaded soon! xoxo : D Well, I'm officially back in the saddle again....so to speak. I ran into a major drama with my domain name....as in losing it entirely....slipping between the cracks at Weebly (my web hoster) into the netherlands of cyberspace. So for all of you who clicked onto the Romantic Mom and got nothing but a link to some dating site....that was why. Yes, I was not a happy camper....more like a panicked, tremulous, tragedy-has-struck-my-world camper. I seriously thought that I'd lost everything....every cotton pickin' thang!
BUT tragedy was averted and it's all been remedied now. I do still enthuse Weebly luv to everyone and still can't find any deal....as in build-ur-own website-for dummies out there who allows me, the goober on all matters 'web design' related and otherwise, to pull something resembling a website together....and all for pretty cheap. I transferred my domain name (theromanticmom.com) over to Go Daddy for only $7.50. Then I'd been told that there was a way to 'point' the domain name back to weebly. Of course that had me intimidated into do-nothing mode for a couple of weeks. I finally called the Go Daddy hotline and a really nice guy named Michael walked me thru the all of 3 second process. Seriously...2 seconds if your computer's faster than mine is. Then 24-48 hours later my site is back online again. Whew....so I'm back in the saddle. No more drama for at least 2 years now....since I pre-paid for 2 years....to save myself this kinda drama. So, speaking of drama, dating service for my domain name was the least of it lately. Like 3/4 of the known universe, we had our share of troubles over the past couple of years. The past 2 winters have been especially harsh....and not just weather-wise....tho that's been rather harsh too. However, I happen to LOVE snow....and all the fun things I can do in snow. Watering and feeding animals, shoveling snow, super-high winds with snow....um blizzards. Not so much fun. Add to that all the financial problems with high heating bills, no work, business falling thru the floor, etc. Not fun. Long story short, we were faced with a big decision this Spring. We've been struggling ever since we moved to Maine almost 7 years ago to hold onto our 40 acres and build a log home out of pocket. Unfortunately, that whole endeavor has gotten the best of us. We made the decision to forfeit that whole thing and move on. It was very difficult, heart-wrenching, all of that....but we feel that it was really the right thing to do given our family situation. Now we have some money in the bank, my husband can concentrate on his new job, we don't have to spend every blinking moment wondering how we're ever gonna get a roof over our heads. We've also out grown the house I co-own with my dad that we've been living in since we moved up here, and that's on the market now, too. Big whew. So what are we doing? Good question. Well, if everything goes the way we hope it does, we'll be moving into a big farmhouse with a beg beautiful attached barn......that I've always adored...with lots of fields behind the barn, lake and stream nearby....quintessential New England. I'll keep ya'll posted. Honestly, this is just the skim the surface, get to the point version of the story. I'll fill in more of the gaps as time goes on....and when I'm not so in limbo. In and amongst all of that, I also went and got my Insurance certification this past March...passed that majorly arcane 3 hour exam the first time. Couldn't believe it! I haven't studied for a test like that in 20 yrs...since I graduated from college. More on that later as well. I'm actually excited, tho, about a new beginning....and so are the kiddos! New summer adventures, for sure! : D |
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