Guest post written by my buddy Bernardo Graham

I had to kick my son out of our family home last month because he is out of control. I feel terrible about it, but we couldn’t let him be around our younger children anymore. He is already 19 years old, and if he wants to use drugs and live that type of lifestyle, my husband and I can’t sit idly by. He was inviting all sorts of odd people over our house, and we found some drug paraphernalia in the house. We told him to clean up or get out, and he decided he would leave. When we first kicked him out we didn’t think we had to change the locks, since we thought he had a place to stay. A week later we caught him in the house when we were supposed to be at work, rummaging through the kitchen drawers. We took his keys away and changed the locks, but we weren’t sure if that was enough protection. We don’t want to enable his drug habit, so we googled adt corpus christi and got an alarm system hooked up right away. Unfortunately, we don’t feel like we can trust our son around our younger kids and our possessions anymore. Hopefully the alarm will help us keep him out until he agrees to get help.

Guest post written by Heather Sykes

When we found out that we were pregnant, one of the first things on my mind was how I’m going to decorate the nursery. Now, don’t get me wrong, I want a really cute nursery for our first baby. But I also had to think about fitting those nice decorations into a budget. I don’t want to have put off saving for our child’s college fund just because I decided I wanted some designer stuff for the nursery. So I’m trying to DIY stuff for the nursery for the sake of our tight budget.

It’s funny to think how much thought parents put into a nursery when babies aren’t even that aware of things around them in a nursery. But of course you want things to be nice for your kid, so I understand it in the end. I was looking online to see if I could find some nice DIY projects that obviously aren’t homemade and when I was doing that I ran across some info on Sears. After I looked thorugh it a little bit, I decided to use them to replace our windows before I have the baby.

I’ve found all kinds of cute DIY projects that will keep the baby’s room looking cute with some cheap materials that are within our budget.

Thanks for the guest post by Jonathan Curtis

As a surprise last month, my wife upgraded our satellite tv service to directv.com/choicextra. I was so excited to see the new channels I had been looking for and to find some new ones I had never seen. I love home improvement projects so my new favorite network is DIY. DIY stands for Do-It-Yourself—a fitting description for me. I’m always looking for ways I can improve my home both to increase its value but also to make it better for my family. Just last week they had a special on simple and inexpensive bathroom improvements. After watching the half hour segment, my wife and I headed to our local home improvement store for some quick fixes. Our biggest purchase was new light fixtures. Before watching the show I never would have attempted to do the electrical work required to change the lights out but after seeing how simple it could be I was ready to tackle the project myself. To match the new light fixtures we also purchased coordinating towel racks and faucets. It’s amazing how much just those minor items improved the look of our bathrooms.

Guest post written by Carolina Hewitt

One of the things that I always have to worry about when we’re having a huge storm is weather our siding is going to fly off of the house. It’s that old. We’ve been thinking about switching out our siding for a while. Well, a tree fell on our house during a storm about a week or two ago and it messed up our siding. We were really lucky to have on that in damages from a fallen tree, though.

After getting some local quotes for new siding, I thought it would be worth looking online to see what kind of pricing I could find there. While I was looking, I ran across some info on Sears Home Improvement after I looked through it a little bit I decided to go through them.

We actually picked out a new color for our siding, which looked so much better than the old white siding. It even made it through hurricane Irene and I couldn’t be happier about it! Plus, my husband is really glad that we were able to save so much money on it.