Little Miss Sunshine

Happy Easter!

kaw384@yahoo.com (Front Porch Mom) — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:38:25 PST

Greetings! This weekend is a busy one for some reason. We are looking for a prom dress so that will be alot of our Saturday unfortunantly---not my fav thing to do--- walk around a mall. Oh well, I hope we stumble across the perfect dress. My youngest daughter turns 10 so we are heading...

HUGE Announcement!

kaw384@yahoo.com (Front Porch Mom) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:15:57 PST

Ta Da!! A huge announcement!!!!!
My daughter passed her Drivers test!!! I am so excited!!! This was her FIFTH try!
She finally did it. Thankfully my ex took her to the test because I was so stressed I was sure I was going to pass out! I am thrilled!!!! So happy for her. She was so...

Home doings

kaw384@yahoo.com (Front Porch Mom) — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:50:12 PST

My parents came and we painted all the kitchen hardware! WOW! It looks more updated! I just love it. The curtains my mom made are very very nice! I love them! We hung black wrought iron rods to go with all the black accents I got going. I bought a new rug and today --one day later...

Roof quotes

kaw384@yahoo.com (Front Porch Mom) — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:39:44 PST

I have four roof quotes now. They range from 6000 to 12,000. Every sales guy says the same exact thing to "sell" me themselves. They must all go to roofing sales school in my opinion. It gets tiring!!!! YIKES! Now I need to see what I want to do. So far I have hated this entire process....

Happy April!

kaw384@yahoo.com (Front Porch Mom) — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:02:54 PST

I survived my weekend of dance. It was very hectic and fun all in one. I spent a wad of cash. I treated myself to a steak dinner at the hotel with some other moms. Boy was it GOOD! I never ever have steak and I ate every bite! YUM! So the weekend was nuts as far as cash spent. But...

Wallpaper is DOWN!!!

kaw384@yahoo.com (Front Porch Mom) — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:01:04 PST

Hello frugal friends. Yes the wallpaper in the laundry room and kitchen is history! It went pretty smoothly since I had someone else do it all! The ladies I hired were so neat and clean and had such nice personalities. Everything is painted a warm off white as well. I got my new leather...

Working around the House

kaw384@yahoo.com (Front Porch Mom) — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:35:13 PST

I have been working on some home projects lately...hence no blogging! Today my new love seat and couch arrived from JCPenney's. I like it. It is that bonded leather which is great for us and our family room. I am getting a new chair from World Market. I bought an ottoman that matches....

Another dance competition

kaw384@yahoo.com (Front Porch Mom) — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 19:22:42 PST

ONE MORE TO GO! I did really well in not spending too much money at this one. We got starbucks--yummy! My dance pal and I went beforehand and she treated. So nice of her. We did all go out for dinner at Macaroni Grill..UGH! $45.00 for three of us....one being 9yrs old! I was so good...

Working gal news

kaw384@yahoo.com (Front Porch Mom) — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:11:54 PST

Today I got very bummed at work..they let go of the assistant maintenance man....Creighton. This guy is a gem. I mean a real gem. His last day is Thursday.
He is a retired police chief and he is so good with people. He was let go because we can not afford to buy paint or lightbulbs...

Work Woes

kaw384@yahoo.com (Front Porch Mom) — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:03:18 PST

Today I was told that all my sick time...30 hours and 8 hours of vacation time I had been banking are now gone. Because I am part time from here on out if I need time off I will not get paid and I have zero benefits. I walked away from work today feeling really low and down. I just...

Single Mom Life

kaw384@yahoo.com (Front Porch Mom) — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:19:51 PST

Howdy---I have not written in so long. I am so sorry to you and to me. Lots happening. Lots of---- all sorts of what nots. My tile is down and the laundry room is back together. My dad came up this week and striped the wallpaper in the powder room. How awful! My ex did not size the...

Lets fix the Laundry Room

kaw384@yahoo.com (Front Porch Mom) — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:13:47 PST

Finally I am getting my tile floor put in for my laundry room, mudroom and half bath! I had not ONE moldy floor area in the bath but another spot in the laundry room! So the floor had to be cut out and re-done with a new sub floor. So it looks better already! The tile goes in on Thursday....so...

Still Trying

kaw384@yahoo.com (Front Porch Mom) — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:39:36 PST

Greetings! Yes I am still trying to blog. I am not doing very well at it.
It has been a cash draining month for some reason. Yet I got my VISA bill and the statement showed so much less. I guess because I have been trying to simply pay cash for so much more. I guess I am doing that...

A Good Sick Day

kaw384@yahoo.com (Front Porch Mom) — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:16:27 PST

Today I called off sick at work. I will get paid so I decided to call off sick. I never ever goof off. I was so behind in house work it would of been impossible to catch up....so I am off today.

Today my goals are as follows
1. hang up shower organizer
2. wash as many loads as...

Whata weekend

kaw384@yahoo.com (Front Porch Mom) — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:48:28 PST

Hey everyone....I did survive my dance competition on Saturday. We did prettty well as far as placing. My daughter who does not dance got sick so I had to leave to come home and take care of her....loads of complications all day long...but I kept telling myself Saturday will soon be...

Dance Fun

kaw384@yahoo.com (Front Porch Mom) — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:29:19 PST

This weekend is our first dance competition of the season. It is always a huge struggle to stay frugal. At least it is very local and no hotel is needed. I am praying to not spend hardly a thing. We will see.

Have had to get alot of odds and ends for this dance thing and also art...

What a week so far!

kaw384@yahoo.com (Front Porch Mom) — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:56:48 PST

I ended up having to work on Saturday as my work buddy could not due to a faulty working truck. So I worked it much to my chagrin. I worked knowing full well I only stay till 12noon! I was glad. I spent the entire weekend huddled in my house except for one trip to grocery shop.
It...

Kitchen No No's!

kaw384@yahoo.com (Front Porch Mom) — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:52:53 PST

Wow more WORK PLACE DRAMA! Ok someone is stealing LARGE amounts of food from our kitchen! Weird! Yes that is right. Someone is so darn desperate...hates to grocery shop or who runs a black market on groceries! So NOW we are not allowed to get coffee or to bum a spoon or eat any of...

Weekend to do's

kaw384@yahoo.com (Front Porch Mom) — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:49:49 PST

1. Shovel bottom of the driveway out
2. balance checkbook
3. Gather up not needed clothes for charity pickup on Monday
4. My personal laundry
5. Journal writing
6. Relaxing
7. Stop by the thrift store after work on Saturday ...50% off sale going on

January Goal Accomplished Already

kaw384@yahoo.com (Front Porch Mom) — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:14:44 PST

One of my goals was to open up a plain old savings account. I decided to go to the local credit union. It is simple and not a "bank"....and again it is locally managed. I have a checking account at another bank. I wanted to have things not connected....in case of bank failure. I also...