Author: Sarah Irving

2020 has proven to be the year almost everyone will be happy to see go as the clock nears midnight on Dec 31st.  Although the issues we have been battling globally and as a country have been particularly severe this year, I feel as though that is a recurring theme — at the end of […]

Last weekend our oldest turned four, so we figured what better way to celebrate, than taking her to go ride a real-life pony. She also deserved a mega award for being patient with me and my husband constantly working on renovations on the house and the rescheduling of most extra-curricular activities due to Covid.

If you stand by the proverbial water cooler at Meridian, you are bound to hear one of us lamenting about the never ending home projects / renovations (ahem, I am looking at myself), finishing a move into a new home, looking at buying a first home, planning weekend home projects, and really everything under the

Last week my family and I had the opportunity to escape to the beach in North Carolina, close to where I grew up … pretty lucky timing on our part considering hurricane Isaias’s path!  As any parent knows, vacations with small children aren’t exactly relaxing, but the making of lifetime memories is all worth

What Is the FIRE Movement? In the financial world, there has been a lot of recent attention on a movement among the younger generation which magnifies the advice of save early and save often. The FIRE movement – which stands for Financial Independence Retire Early – is built on the principles of high savings rates

If you know me and my husband, you know that we are serial renovators and DIYers. Yes, we are sick sick people. We are currently in the home stretch of our last … and I mean LAST… home renovation. While I’d like to think I am contributing as much as possible during the renovation, I […]

Summer certainly feels like it is here!  Every pool with the exception of baby pools is sold out in Virginia (if you find one, let me know!), the local ice cream shop has re-opened, and high school and college graduations have come and gone. And while this year’s graduation scene looked very different from anything

More so now than ever do I believe the theme of “finding balance” is playing a key role in all of our lives.  The economy, financial markets, and life itself seem anything but in balance.  And while that might be true, we continue to seek some balance between our jobs, our families, children’s schoolwork, our

With most of the world in lockdown or the mandate of stay-at-home orders for the last couple of months traveling, daily commuting, and the production and manufacturing of certain goods has been put on pause – air pollution seems to have died down more than any time we have seen.  And while this is temporary