A Very Lengthy Update ft. Seizures

Welp, it is already September of 2023, and a lot of life has been lived since my last post highlighting all of 2021. I keep promising myself that I will be better at documenting our journey, but time goes quickly and life is hectic. In the past year and a half, a lot has been happening, including the birth of our son, Patrick!

Starting back at the beginning of 2022 (far before little brother was on the radar), we were in the midst of a terrible cold season with Piper. Piper attended daycare three days a week, and all winter long, she was having back to back sicknesses that would rarely, if ever, go away on their own without an antibiotic. Pair this along with her ear tubes falling out and having terrible ear infections for a month until we could get in to have her ENT specialist place new ones in February 2022, we were just miserable. Things just kept getting worse and worse. Somewhere along this timeline, Piper developed a new kind of seizure, where she would have one or multiple limbs twitch for a few seconds. When she is sick, her seizures are typically worse, so that makes it even harder to decipher if new seizure meds are working effectively.

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The Dave Ramsey Plan: What We’ve Learned So Far

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Mike and I both graduated college in 2015, and with that, we knew we wanted to get out of debt as soon as possible. Thankfully, we only have student loan debt, but the cumulative amount was quite substantial. We started listening to Dave Ramsey when we were still in college, and we knew we wanted to follow his plan in order to pay off our debt. So with that, we decided to live on half our income once we started our first jobs after college.

The end of March marked the third month we have been budgeting our money and being “gazelle intense” about paying off debt, and we have already paid off a ton of debt and we have also grown so much! Continue reading “The Dave Ramsey Plan: What We’ve Learned So Far”

The Best Salad You’ll Ever Eat

IMG_8953To our friends and family, it is no secret that Mike and I love to cook. We love food, and we love good food. In the past two and a half years of our relationship, we have attempted many new recipes. Some of them were amazing and some were just plain weird. (Wingin’ homemade ramen didn’t really go well for us.)

Anyway, this dish was a concoction I created when I worked as a waitress during college. At the restaurant where I worked, we were able to place an order at the end of our shift, and this salad was a result of my creative (and starving) mind. Continue reading “The Best Salad You’ll Ever Eat”