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How to live on one income (& love it.)

debt-free

Since I wrote this post in October of 2013, I have begun to make some supplemental income for my family through blogging because of an online e-course called Rock Your Blog (affiliate link)–you can read a bit more about it in this post. Since I began implementing the principles learned there, I am making a part-time income, with the goal of being full-time within the next year. If you’re a blogger & want to know how you can make money from what you do as a blogger, I highly recommend this course. It connects all the dots, gives you the tools & shows you what you need to do to start making money from what you do. You live on one income, but it’s certainly a blessing to be able to have supplemental income too!

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The best kinds of things

personal

In my mailbox today I found:

a credit card offer,
this week’s edition of the New Yorker,
& a package.

You know how rare it is to get anything personal in mail these days, so you know how excited I was to receive such a tasty morsel.

Giddy, I ran inside the house, & (carefully) ripped open the package.

It was a birthday package from my friend Joy.

With a handwritten note!

I savored each beautifully written line.

(Isn’t her cursive gorgeous?)

A book,

& a journal, too.

It’s funny because Joy & I have never met in person, but we’re friends.

We’ve only ever connected through words–emails, blog comments, twitter & fb– but I consider her a dear friend.

She’s intelligent, creative, thoughtful (she always leaves the best comments).

We’re both the same age, though at radically...

30

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I turn 30 today.

Last night amidst a torrential lightening storm, I stayed up late looking at old photos, as one often does, when times like these come around.

August 2011
age 28

Our engagement photo, circa July 2004.
age 21

The image is poor, because it’s a scanned copy of a photo that is stuck to the glass of the photo frame.
But you get the idea. We’re happy, we’re in love.

Us + Hyrum, Salem, Amalia, & Asher.
August 2011

May 2009
age 26

Salem
August 2011

Can you believe the blonde hair?

And is was so long. (*sigh*.)
Summer 2003 as an EFY summer counselor.

What can I say? I like to smile, even as a chubster baby.
sometime, 1984

This picture is a bit eerie–I look so much like Salem in this picture.
My brother Loren, my mom & sister Colette (love the fros, ladies!)