kimberlyjoa

So a bit of advice to new moms - do not take the tags off of any clothes you receive before the baby arrives!

Everyone says your second birth is “easier” but I was not anticipating a 10 and a half pound baby with a huge head. After two hours of pushing and insisting they just cut me (like they did when I gave birth the first time to a 9 and a half pound baby) the midwife snipped a bit and… Read More

I share this advice not to brag but say it can be done - my husband is a line cook and we have three properties currently valued at a total of 1.5million that we’ll cash out for our retirement seeing we don’t have a pension coming our way.

When I graduated college with a degree I’d never use my father told me “I don’t care what you do, just don’t pay someone else’s mortgage.” I worked my butt off bartending and waitressing and bought a house when I was 24. I then took out equity on that house 8 years later to buy my… Read More

When G-baby dies in “Hardball”. Days after I watched it, my eyes well up for days just thinking about it.

An Old Fashioned. Either they’ve never had it before and are going to hate it or they like it just a certain way and they’re going to hate it. I cringe every time someone orders one.

I never leave without orange chicken, scallion pancakes and veggie fried rice - for $10 we get two nights worth of Chinese food better than any local take-out!

Oatmeal Swirlers! Even my own sibling doesn't remember eating this every morning in the late 80's.

A shopping cart. Someone else had left in conveniently outside my dorm so I used it to bring my stuff in from my car. During room inspection the RA wrote us up with a fine saying "the candle posed as a threat. As does the shopping cart." I wasn't threatened by it at all - I found… Read More

I very rarely buy something that is not on sale. I base our meals around what's on sale that week or what I may have stocked up on from a prior week!