Salty Zebra

   If you've been following along with my blog for any length of time, you've probably seen a note something along the lines of: I am an Amazon Associate and when you purchase something through this link I will receive a small bonus. This does not change your price at all, it just helps support what I'm doing on the Salty Zebra Blog.  Well, I'm writing today to tell you that I am no longer  an Amazon Associate and links you see to products will, for the most part, not benefit me at all. I will still include referral links for credit cards and other services that give us both a benefit, but, alas, Amazon didn't pan out as a practical platform for The Salty Zebra Blog to realize income. I spent hours  over the last year painstakingly researching products and pasting associate links in, then offering the obligatory language to inform you of such links. But over an entire year it only netted me a few cents . The only reason I was able to cash anything out at all was...

   I've had a bit of a dry spell over the holidays - tons of stuff happening at home - but I'm back! I have a whole slew of post ideas sitting in my drafts and a new Bible study starting up next week, Praying God's Wisdom Over Your Life. I even wrote a couple of posts, one which will likely never see the light of day because it contains sensitive things about a family member and another that was just too... unenthusiastic to be my first post of the year. I'll put it up later this week, promise.     2025 was a crazy year! Tons of travel. Tons of family stuff, health stuff, life stuff. We went seven months as a family with my husband out of work, but I'm so excited to share with you here that HE GOT A JOB!!!! He starts up next week and we couldn't be more thrilled. It looks to be the best of all the hopes we had with much of it being remote, just one day a week in the office, the ability to work 4/10s so he has 3 days off every week, and he'll be making a diff...