On Monday before Sarah went back to school, the three of us took ourselves off to early voting for her FIRST presidential election!…

Welcome to the new Smithellaneous! I have been wanting to make a change for quite a while but always got instantly overwhelmed  every time I started to do anything about it.  Hiring a a designer to design and redo everything for me would have cost at least $250 which I didn’t have. Doing it myself would have cost me more of my sanity than I…

Last month as I flew home from Wisconsin, the man in the seat next to me started to chat. In the minutes that followed, he told me what he did for a living (some sort of important job working with companies like Boeing, Estee Lauder, etc.) and then he eventually turned the conversation to me and asked the question I always dread.…

So what does a college gal look like when she first gets out of bed in the morning? This.…