This week we celebrate our five year anniversary and we are discussing the keys that keep our marriage rolling. We discuss how communication, not taking each other to serious and supporting each other have been important to our marriage. We also talk about how how it is important to spend time apart as well as continue to date your spouse. Marriage should be a journey with you best friend so enjoy the ride.

This week's episode is all about saving money and spending less. We discuss how losing one income forced us to be more aware of our spending, ways we save money and also ways to make extra money. We dive into ideas we utilized to cut costs for baby items, how going out to eat adds up as well as using social media to save and make money. We all want to be better with our finances and this podcast spotlights our actions to be more financially mindful.

Jill accomplished a long time goal and ran a 10K this past weekend. On this episode we discuss her previous feet issues that prevented her from running over 3 miles, the chiropractic care that took away her pain, and how the race went for her. We also talk about future races, even a half marathon and the possibility of me running with her in the next 10k. Great episode and couldn't be more proud of Jill on accomplishing her goal.

We all remember 9/11/2001, but often forget about the patriotism, unity and selflessness in the days after the attack. On this episode Jill and I reflect on 9/11 but focus on the feeling and events in America  in the weeks after. We learned how amazing people can be in the time of tragedy. We will never forget 9/11, but I hope we remember 9/12.

Before Jill became a stay at home mom she was a school counselor at a Jr/Sr High School. She was often in charge of administering the multiple tests required each school year. The department of education creates these tests, but often put unnecessary stress on student and teachers. It's important for parents to understand the root of this testing and how much pressure it adds to today's students. We discuss where to direct their concerns to help make changes to this out of control process. 

On this episode we talk about our the game plan Jill put in place for our twelve hour drive for Family vacation. We discuss the Jill's pre-trip planning, in car activities as well as tips while stopping for meals and breaks. Jill's excellent game plan allowed the three of us to have an enjoyable drive to and from the Outer Banks this summer.

On our first episode we are discussing how annoying your partner is a good thing. Jill and I talk about how it is important to have fun with each other, even when its an annoying quirk. We break down some of the things that we do to irritate the other and how it is important to keep things light hearted. This is a great episode to get to know us and how even though we are constantly bantering, its all in good fun.