Update: The bonuses mentioned below are no longer available. See Best Hotel Points Sign-up Bonuses for the most current offers. As many of you probably know, the increased sign-up bonuses on the American Express Hilton cards expire tomorrow, May 31. You could get up to 180,000 bonus points per person from the bonuses if you […]

We are about to go on our sixth family cruise. Cruising happens to be a good fit for my family for many reasons, so we continue to book cruises. I belong to a few cruising groups on social media and online cruise forums. One controversial topic that continues to surface is the amount of freedom […]

One or more of these credit card offers may no longer be available. See our Hot Deals page for the latest offers. Background Last summer, I stumbled across this article in the Dallas Observer about the Majestic Oak Treehouse at Savannah’s Meadow. After I read it, I knew I had to take my family there! […]

My family has lived in our house for almost exactly 7 years. We moved here when I was pregnant with our daughter. We wanted a bigger house, and to get that we had to move further away from Dallas. The house was 3 years old when we moved in, but no walls had been painted. […]

Background Late last year and early this year, I was holding off on new credit card applications to get under Chase’s 5/24 rule. In March, I decided to throw caution to the wind by breaking my holding pattern. Both my husband and I applied for the Merrill + Visa Signature card from Bank of America. […]

My husband thinks I’m the craziest, most loyal Disney fan out there. He has no idea that I don’t even hold a candle to some Disney fans! To be fair, not all of our vacations are Disney-related. We’ve visited California and Florida on trips without stepping foot inside a Disney park. In reality, many of […]