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Last month, I mentioned in the state of the blog address that I would be bringing back budgeting posts — today kickstarts the return a la the RB Reads theme as well as it being Financial Literacy Month! Over the last few months, I’ve read around 13 books, many of them related to budgeting and/or personal finance. Today I’ll be sharing seven of those reads with a quick review and a link to them on Amazon (none of which are set to net me any money if you click on them and buy them, just don’t have time for that right now) … [it should be noted that, while I am a bookworm, I have never enjoyed writing book reviews or book reports

We married in October of 2017 and we waited a few months before we officially started to try to conceive (aka TTC); meanwhile, we weren’t trying but the timing of certain things during the right points in my cycle meant it could have happened. Waking not so bright and extremely early to take my BBT [basal body temperature] as soon as I woke, taking ovulation tests for almost a week out of every cycle, and plugging all that data into a handy dandy app on my phone in addition to a spreadsheet I was already tracking my cycles and symptoms on [yes, I am a nerd]. That cycle left me with a two-week wait full of symptoms that were not (and still haven’t been) normal PMS symptoms for me. [it should be noted that I’ve spent considerably less on pregnancy tests than ovulation tests — as I’ve rarely had the opportunity do a pregnancy test in the last year before the Flo would make her much-unwanted appearance] I took the dietary changes a step further.

Its been less than four years since Texas gained its newest national park site — Mammoth was also the first of the Texas national park sites I’ve visited outside of Padre Island National Seashore (which was in early childhood). Mammoth is operated in conjunction with both the City of Waco and Baylor University — the site was discovered in the late 1970s but did not open to the public until about nine years ago. I loved the signage to ‘follow me to the mammoths’ starting at the parking lot and down the trail to the dig site.

What most don’t realize is that there are multiple forms of PCOS, so what symptoms I struggle with could be different from many others with PCOS. I’ve also made it almost a mission of sorts to learn more about PCOS over the last few years — to the point where I now regularly listen to medical and fertility podcasts to learn as much as possible. There’s so much I’d love to share with those struggling with PCOS who have no idea where to start or what information to trust … if only I had the time to do so There’s so much I’d love to share with those struggling with PCOS who have no idea where to start or what information to trust … if only I had the time to do so