Tomorrow is Independence Day so we’re headed out to go camping with my parents and some of my siblings. I’m hoping we get a little bit of a break from the rain but even if we don’t we’ll still have a great time. My dad was in the Marine Corps. so patriotism is something I was raised with. When we go to the parade tomorrow morning I’ll place my hand over my heart when I hear the national anthem, and show Chloe that she should too.

I hope you all have a fantastic weekend. I’ll be back next week! If you get a chance check out some of my favorite reads from the past couple weeks. There are quite a few of them because I had a hard time choosing:

• Powerful Ways To Improve Your Life from Five Cent Nickel
• Car Maintenance Tips: Help Your Odometer Reach 300,000 Miles from Frugal Dad
• Life Before Our Emergency Fund from Living Well On Less
• Achieving Financial Freedom One Expense At A Time from Moolanomy (A great read if you’re closing in on retirement but your savings is a little behind)
• 10 Ways Being Nice Is Good For You from My Super-Charged Life
• Why Recycle When You Can Freecycle from Frugal Underground (If you’ve never heard of Freecycle, check this out)
• The First Three Steps To Financial Freedom from Get Rich Slowly
• Things You Own End Up Owning You from My Two Dollars
• DIY: Getting Dirty With Square Foot Gardening from Squawkfox
• Can You Survive As A One Income Family? from The Wisdom Journal
• Echino Oilcloth Grocery Tote, Molly’s Sketchbook from The Purl Bee (I really want to make this)

Things To Bake

• Poppa’s Favorite Peanut Butter Pie from Mom’s Kitchen … And Stuff!
• Strawberry Pie from Rocks In My Dryer

Things That Touched My Heart

The first two links are bloggers facing criticism and tough choices. I so appreciate their real-ness and honesty, that’s why I read them. The third is on a different note, a celebratory one, but worth mentioning because I love celebrating marriage!

• This Is Me from Remodeling This Life
• Christianity, Hypocrisy And Public Life from Mrs. Fussypants
• Twenty Years! from RealNetta (Congrats on your 20th wedding anniversary!)

Why I do what I do ~ Chloe had several “accidents” today. I was frustrated and said, “Daddy’s going to be disappointed when he gets home and we tell him.” She said, “That’s ok. We won’t tell him.”

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1. Good Reads: Do You Have Your Binoculars?
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3. Good Reads: Great Perspective
4. Good Reads: What Blogs Should I Read?
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