I'm BAAAAAAAAAACK!!!

Ok, so I am officially jumping into the blogging world with both clumsy feet of mine! I am hoping this blog will be my most successful yet. And I'm praying I can keep up with it :D
So this blog is titled "Chasing the American Dream" and the keyword there is CHASING. Let me give you a little background on our family and our life.
We're a family of three- the hubby, me, and the almost 3 year old. My husband works entirely too hard for his money and commutes an hour round-trip every day to work in a gas-guzzling car. I am a full time student/ stay at home mommy/ entrepeneur/ woman going crazy. While I have an amazing Mary Kay business and I tutor very, very part-time, we are basically a 1 income family right now. We're finding that it's incredibly hard to save and accomplish all the things we'd like in life with just this one income. So we've been making changes, big and small, to get things accomplished.
Another little fun fact about us: We currently live with my parents. Yep, we're insane. It's a long story as to how we got here, but we're here. The 5 of us share a 3600 square foot, 2 story custom home that sits on over an acre of land.... plenty of room for the 3 dogs, 3 cats, and toddler... as well as the 4 cars and my dad's 20 foot bass boat. We're not cramped, but nonetheless we're looking to move on sooner rather than later. However, right now we're perfectly content to not pay rent and to still have an awesome amount of space to ourselves (3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and a living room upstairs just for us :-P) And it's a great place to be while we start saving to chase our American Dream. That dream includes a house to call our own, more kids, and me out of school and in my dream job... teaching. There's more, but that's the start. Those are the short term goals, so to speak.
And this blog is going to track how our family combines minimalism, saving, and much more to acheive those dreams as soon as possible. Hope you enjoy!
Melissa