Posts under ‘Personal’

How I Decorated My Nursery Cheaply

It seems like we would do anything for our little miracles that we are about to bring into this world. Baby paraphernalia that people used to do fine without (and still do in most of the world) is now considered to be a necessity. Hats off to the baby industry marketers!  They know exactly how [...]

What It’s Like To Be Entrepreneur’s Wife

I am currently a stay-at-home mom and a wife of an online entrepreneur, David Risley.  He really loves what he does and he is good at it.  I am happy that I can be home with my baby to take care of her and the household.  And I can’t complain right now, we do have [...]

Flight Over Florida


Family Get-Together, May 30

We had a family get-together for Dave’s and grandma Margerie’s birthdays at my mother-in-law’s. She recently got two beautiful lab puppies, Baily (after liquor Baily’s) and Kelly (short for Kalua). It was our first time seeing Kelly. Even though she’s still pretty tiny, she plays rough. I tried to [...]

My Perfect Mother’s Day

I had a wonderful first Mother’s Day! First we went out for breakfast, so it was nice not having to cook and clean up. For our outing, we decided to check out Tampa Aquarium. Neither my husband or I ever been to the Aquarium, even though we lived here forever. The deciding [...]

Reflections on 2007

2007 was a busy year for me. I got married, got pregnant and had a baby; all in one year, wow! Hard to believe, the year flew by so fast. We got married in March of last year. It finally happened, at thirty years old I was finally a married woman! [...]