the Compact – Page 2 – Garden State of Mind

I Think I’m Alone Now

It’s 12:30 pm. I am sitting on my front porch with a cold glass of iced tea-lemonade and a magazine. The weather is gorgeous. All of my kids are off at the pool with the sitter until 4 pm. The quiet of Vermont has made me more aware of noises like construction off in the distance, cars…

August 21, 2014

It’s Time I Got Back

It’s almost September, summer is more or less over for me, and it’s time to get back to reality and stop living in vacationland. This means: Tracking the budget. I just went back and finished out July’s, and I was a little bit ahead, on top of the money that was automatically transferred to savings.…

August 19, 2014