About Me

Suburban Wife

Hello and welcome to my blog!  My name is Elizabeth and I’ll be your blogger for the duration of your visit.

I’m a 44-yo suburban-dwelling mother of two teenagers.  I wear many hats.  I never know how to answer occupation questions — I consider myself to be a stay-at-home mom but I also have a full-time paying job (I work from home).  In addition, I’m a homeschooling parent.  So I’m a SaHM, WaHM, educator, and full-time chauffeur.  Take your pick.

I’ve been blogging in one form or another for about 7 years.  I started my Daily Dollar Diary on a lark — I’m fascinated by the political and social power wielded by moms like myself who are responsible for the day-to-day purchases of our households.  My blog quickly grew beyond the bounds of simply posting my daily expenditures (the how and where) to include thoughts on why I spend my money the way I do.  Not only do my expenses and purchases tell a story about us but there’s almost always a story behind each purchase.

My PF blog has a dark side too.  I’m cramming — learning as much as I can about personal finance in general and our finances in particular because I’m looking down the barrel of widowhood.  My loving, adorable husband of 15 years has cancer.  He’s already twice a cancer “survivor.”  This time they can’t just cut it out and send him home.  He has prostate cancer that is not longer contained within the prostate.  A year ago his PSA numbers were skyrocketing; right now the cancer is responding to treatment and the growth has stopped.  We might have 10 more years.  Then again, we might have 10 months.

As The Husband likes to say, we’re hoping for the best and planning for the worst.  In the meantime, he doesn’t buy green bananas.

In so many ways, we are the typical American family: suburban-dwelling middle-class two-car Caucasian family of four with a mom, a dad, a son, and a daughter.  But a closer look exposes just how different we are.  One child attends a private high school and the other is homeschooled.  I’m a Christian but not of the evangelical or born-again stripe; I believe in the necessity of always acting from a position of conscious free-will.  I have left-leaning political views whereas The Husband tends to lean to the right; we both consider ourselves fiscally conservatives.  I’m a granola-eating, organic-when-available, neither-plastic-nor-paper environmentally-aware, conventional-medicine-avoiding, urban-at-heart suburban refugee.

I am woman, hear me roar.  I have credit, watch me spend.

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