Category: Roundups

Tweet Here’s my long overdue roundup.  There’s been a lot of good stuff out there that I’ve managed to read but not comment on lately.  I’ve been trying desperately to organize my office and electronic life in an effort to get a fresh start on next year.  Yes, my electronic life is so cluttered, that…

Tweet As usually, I’m long overdue to do a round up, but I have been working on it for a while.  This past week, I decided to go into town for our 3rd Thursday event.  They close off our downtown have lots of street vendors and live performers.  Some are really great, and some are…

Tweet The last few days have been the greatest. My family did a road trip to Baltimore and DC and it was just so much fun.  It was all good until my 2 year old got car sick 20 minutes into our 7 hour drive home and threw up all over the back seat and…

Tweet Yesterday was one of the first nice days of the season and I was excited about some outdoor time.  I decided to run a little finance experiment with my 5 year old.  After going through the list of potential fun outdoor things we could do yesterday, both the boys settled on blowing bubbles as…

Tweet I always have so many great articles that I read and I wish I did my roundups more regularly, but better late than never.  I think my problem is that I feel compelled to make long commentary on everyone’s articles and it takes forever. Okay enough apologizing. My hands down absolutely most favorite post…

Tweet Welcome MSN readers and thank you for taking the time to stop by to visit First Gen American. This is a quirky little personal finance blog that tells tales of my very industrious Polish immigrant mom.  She is self described as “round like barrel” and she is a real character. People love hearing the…

Tweet I’m sitting here in my all time favorite jeans.  They are a pair of DKNY jeans from about 14 years ago.  I got them at an outlet for $20 and it was one of those times where I regret not buying every pair in the store in my size.   I may be totally unhip…

Tweet Yesterday I had a really fun day with Babci and my cousin and we celebrated my early Christmas gift to them. We all went to a Cirque De Soliel Show followed by Dinner at a new restaurant in my home town.  The whole day was great and the best part was seeing a dying…