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A Day in My Life: The Kids Are Almost Grown (but Not Quite) Edition

June 10, 2026
I randomly decided to do a day in my life, and then, while I was looking back at previous ones I had done, my last one was almost on the same day three years ago! Life is a lot different...
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5 Grateful Things: Hospital Edition

July 24, 2025 in family, Featured
Even though misfortune has struck our family, I can’t help but see the...
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Cherry Picking – A Taste of Normalcy

July 19, 2025 in family, Featured
Since our kids were young, we’ve gone fruit picking every summer–strawberries, blueberries, cherries. We pick them and freeze them to enjoy all winter long. (The only time we couldn’t do this...
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When Your World Shatters

June 20, 2025 in family, Featured, Misc.
Just a few days after I wrote my last post, way back in May, I received the phone call everyone dreads receiving–my loved one had an accident and was in the ICU in critical condition. In less than...
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This and That – May 2, 2025

May 2, 2025 in family, Featured, Misc.
This post contains affiliate links. Life lately has been a whirlwind! I’m trying to savor it because our youngest is 15 now, and I know soon the house will be empty and quiet. What this busy season...
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Meal Prep and Menu Plan for January 14 2025

January 14, 2025 in family, Featured, Frugal Fails, giveaways, Menu Planning, retirement, St. Patrick's Day, tax refund, wasting money, Weight Loss
This post contains affiliate links. We were planning to have friends over for sushi on Saturday, but one of their children was sick, so we enjoyed the perishable sushi items on Saturday ourselves. It was a good...
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Meal Prep & Menu Plan for January 6 2025

January 7, 2025 in family, Featured, Frugal Fails, giveaways, Menu Planning, retirement, St. Patrick's Day, tax refund, wasting money, Weight Loss
This post contains affiliate links. Rather than writing what I hope we’ll eat during the week, I write about what we DID eat the week before, so this meal plan is actually from December 28th to January...
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Menu Plan & Meal Prep for October 5 2020

Meal Prep and Menu Plan for December 23, 2024

December 23, 2024 in family, Featured, Frugal Fails, giveaways, Menu Planning, retirement, St. Patrick's Day, tax refund, wasting money, Weight Loss
This post contains affiliate links.  I’ve fallen off the menu plan and meal prep bandwagon this year. However, I’m trying to get my life more organized, so I’m back to the tried and true. Here’s our menu...
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Figuring Out a New Schedule and Cutting Random Scrolling

January 25, 2024 in employment, family, Featured, Goals, Homeschool
This post contains affiliate links.  I was listening to a time management expert who said based on the amount of time we spend on our screens–phones, computers, tv–we will spend 40+ years of our life looking at...
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Our First Two Months in New York

October 5, 2022 in family, Featured, home ownership
This post contains affiliate links.  We’ve been in New York two months now, and I can say this has been a much harder move than our move to Arizona.  There are several reasons for this, including that...
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