Three Lucky Pennies

In this weeks episode, we talk about how life plans change over time and how that can be scary, but its ok. Three Lucky Pennies is the story of our unusual life together. We talk about our adoption journey, renovating our fixer upper, raising three children, being gay in small town America, owning a small business, teaching and that’s just the surface. We hope you enjoy this journey with us and listen along.

In this episode we talk about how important pets are to families. We tell the stories of how we got each of our pets and what they have meant to us in our lives and the lives of our kids. Three Lucky Pennies is the story of our unusual life together. We talk about our adoption journey, renovating our fixer upper, raising three children, being gay in small town America, owning a small business, teaching and that’s just the surface. We hope you enjoy this journey with us and listen along.

In this episode, we continue the story of our adoption. In foster care, children commonly live with a foster family and have visits with their biological family. It is an important, but very, very painful and confusing step of the process for everybody involved. Three Lucky Pennies is the story of our unusual life together. We talk about our adoption journey, renovating our fixer upper, raising three children, being gay in small town America, owning a small business, teaching and that’s just the surface. We hope you enjoy this journey with us and listen along.

In this weeks episode, we talk about how we fear both time moving forwards, and staying still. Do we want our kids to get older and gain independence or do we want them to stay little forever? Do we want our lives to move forward to new and exciting things or do we want to press pause on everything? Three Lucky Pennies is the story of our unusual life together. We talk about our adoption journey, renovating our fixer upper, raising three children, being gay in small town America, owning a small business, teaching and that’s just the surface. We hope you enjoy this journey with us and listen along.

In this weeks episode, we talk about how sometimes you just need a break from your life. Life is tiring an it's OK to just need a break. But why do we feel so guilty about it? Three Lucky Pennies is the story of our unusual life together. We talk about our adoption journey, renovating our fixer upper, raising three children, being gay in small town America, owning a small business, teaching and that’s just the surface. We hope you enjoy this journey with us and listen along.

In this weeks episode we talk about how exhausting summer can be with kids and activities (or lack of activities!) and how excited we are for the kids to go back to school. That may make us bad parents...but at least we are honest about it. Three Lucky Pennies is the story of our unusual life together. We talk about our adoption journey, renovating our fixer upper, raising three children, being gay in small town America, owning a small business, teaching and that’s just the surface. We hope you enjoy this journey with us and listen along.

In this episode, we talk about how being in foster care doesn't have to be your entire identity. Sometimes people see us and our kids and that is all they see, but we are all so much more than that. Three Lucky Pennies is the story of our unusual life together. We talk about our adoption journey, renovating our fixer upper, raising three children, being gay in small town America, owning a small business, teaching and that’s just the surface. We hope you enjoy this journey with us and listen along

In this episode, we talk about all of the silly, little things that we have to teach our kids. Like how to eat a taco. Apparently children do not inherently know how to do that. We also talk about all of the things we accidentally teach our kids, like swearing when they go off the road in Mario Kart. Three Lucky Pennies is the story of our unusual life together. We talk about our adoption journey, renovating our fixer upper, raising three children, being gay in small town America, owning a small business, teaching and that’s just the surface. We hope you enjoy this journey with us and listen along.

In this episode, we lighten things up a bit and talk about how annoying it is to get your kids and that apparently Carrie is scared of the dark. Three Lucky Pennies is the story of our unusual life together. We talk about our adoption journey, renovating our fixer upper, raising three children, being gay in small town America, owning a small business, teaching and that’s just the surface. We hope you enjoy this journey with us and listen along.

Becoming a parent is difficult and scary. Suddenly becoming a parent to three children all at once is more than we could have ever prepared for. Every child is different has has their own unique interests and needs. Children coming from foster care often have backgrounds and histories beyond what most of us could imagine. In this episode, we talk about some of the most common transitional issues children and foster parents face in foster care. Three Lucky Pennies is the story of our unusual life together. We talk about our adoption journey, renovating our fixer upper, raising three children, being gay in small town America, owning a small business, teaching and that’s just the surface. We hope you enjoy this journey with us and listen along.

Being gay wasn't a thing when we were growing up. Neither one of us had gay role models or media representations. How might life have been different for us if being gay was more commonplace and acceptable 20 years ago? In this episode of Three Lucky Pennies we talk about this issue as well as what it is like being gay in a small, rural town. Three Lucky Pennies is the story of our unusual life together. We talk about our adoption journey, renovating our fixer upper, raising three children, being gay in small town America, owning a small business, teaching and that’s just the surface. We hope you enjoy this journey with us and listen along.

This is part 2 of our two-part episode about our home renovation. In this episode, we give our tips and advice for taking on your own fixer-upper. Three Lucky Pennies is the story of our unusual life together. We talk about our adoption journey, renovating our fixer upper, raising three children, being gay in small town America, owning a small business, teaching and that’s just the surface. We hope you enjoy this journey with us and listen along.

This episode is part 1 of 2 and discusses our process into buying a foreclosure home. Why we did it, what some of the upfront and hidden costs are, and what it was like buying something that most people wouldn't even look at. Joanna Gaines don't got nothing on us! Three Lucky Pennies is the story of our unusual life together. We talk about our adoption journey, renovating our fixer upper, raising three children, being gay in small town America, owning a small business, teaching and that’s just the surface. We hope you enjoy this journey with us and listen along.

Every little girl deserves a hero. Maybe it was Xena, Dr. Quinn, Buffy or the Pink Ranger. In this episode, we talk about our childhood heroes and why we think representation in the media is so important. Three Lucky Pennies is the story of our unusual life together. We talk about our adoption journey, renovating our fixer upper, raising three children, being gay in small town America, owning a small business, teaching and that’s just the surface. We hope you enjoy this journey with us and listen along.

In this episode, we talk about how hard it is to be a parent. None of us know what we are doing and we are all just trying to get through, so why do we have to pretend we are perfect? Let's just admit it...we all suck. Three Lucky Pennies is the story of our unusual life together. We talk about our adoption journey, renovating our fixer upper, raising three children, being gay in small town America, owning a small business, teaching and that’s just the surface. We hope you enjoy this journey with us and listen along.