by Alison Moore Smith | Sep 24, 2011 | Design Your Own House, for Home
When we were building the house, I had a file full of designs I loved. One of the recurring themes was glass tile. Especially glass subway tile. I'd seen it in about every home design book and magazine I'd read through, and had fallen in love with the look. In our...
by Alison Moore Smith | Sep 24, 2011 | for Money
Back in the early 1990s, Sam and I took the kids on a trip to Yellowstone. Because of his uber-popularity, the university couldn't fathom a week without talking to him every four minutes. The solution was to send us packing (literally) with a doctor's-satchel-sized...
by Alison Moore Smith | Sep 20, 2011 | for Home, for Money
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Carbonite for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. Within a month of our wedding, in 1985, Sam proposed again. This time he was hoping for a personal computer in our new little family. I objected. I'd lived 21...
by Alison Moore Smith | Sep 19, 2011 | for Money
When I was six-years-old my dad took me to Universal Campus Credit Union—BYU's official financial institution of that day—to deposit the hard earned $21 I had saved from weeding and cleaning cupboards. He matched it by adding his own $21 to the account. I was rich!...
by Alison Moore Smith | Sep 16, 2011 | for Fun, Yea Big
[Watching a rainstorm through the dining room window.] Caleb (7): Mom, I knew it was going to rain. Mom: You did? Caleb: Yes. Do you know how? Mom: How? Caleb: I have senses. … Caleb: I've had them since before I was...
