This post was originally published January 29, 2015. Hello, everyone! It’s time to play What’s Under Jill’s Kitchen Sink? (Theme music. Cheers and applause from the audience.) So, some of you may remember that I was planning on cleaning out the cabinet under my kitchen […]

This post was originally published January 27, 2015. Saturday was this year’s Zoo Run Run 5K at the Nashville Zoo at Grassmere. The whole family signed up this year to run and see the animals, and of course, support the zoo. The weather turned out […]

This post was originally published January 28, 2015. We don’t get a lot of snow in Middle Tennessee. But Friday night before I went to bed, I noticed that it was snowing very prettily outside, large fluffy flakes that were sticking to the trees and […]

This post was originally published January 21, 2015. My new favorite blog that I have discovered is Katy Wolk-Stanley’s The Non-Consumer Advocate. Among other things, Katy advocates buying used rather than new whenever possible and has inspired countless others to do the same. Her blog […]

This post was originally published January 19, 2015. This weekend, we went visit my parents in East Tennessee. My dad retired from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and they live just outside the Oak Ridge city limits. Now, as you may recall from previous posts, Oak […]

This post was originally published January 15, 2015. This year, rather than Christmas gifts, we asked our parents to get us tickets to see Blue Man Group. This was easier for our parents (no running to stores, finding the right size, wrapping gifts, etc.) and […]