Amber’s Blog
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Why Colorado
Four hours later, I am still riding high on the excitement from tonight’s interview with a local farm for a working membership to their CSA. I have always enjoyed getting my hands dirty and participating (however possible) in the growth of our food, so when I started looking for a farm to join, I specifically…
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We Are Officially One of Those Families…
The house we are renting is a little 3 bedroom/1.5 bath ranch. It’s cozy and recently updated, and though it is a downsize from our house in Gillette, it’s really starting to grow on me. The location is going to be perfect for returning to a walking and biking lifestyle (just as soon as it…
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Chapter Four
In four years, this blog has taken me from New York to Nantucket to Wyoming and now to Colorado. Four states in four years is a lot, but I cannot tell you how pleased I am with this most recent move. I took a few days (err, 16) off from blogging and Facebook when we…
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End of the SNAP Challenge
I’m catching up with my end of the year work and realized I never wrote a final post for our Food Stamps Challenge. It also just so happens that today we were in the newspaper; the Gillette News Record ran a story about our challenge, along with some pictures of Chris cooking (taken by Daniel Brenner). …
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Little One
Yesterday, Zara turned one. I seriously cannot believe how quickly this year has flown by and how wonderfully she has grown through all of the changes in her world. When she was a newborn and we were spending her first weeks packing and moving across country I kept telling her, “this is not what life…
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Saturday Surfing
📍 WyomingFinds of the Week: 21 Images of Where Children Sleep Around the World Paints a Powerful Picture of Inequality, Policy Mic — Just, wow…and sad. General Mills: Original Cheerios are GMO free, CNN — Toddlers rejoice…now if only the rest of their cereals could follow suit ILCA Calls on AAP to Sever Commercial Relationships that…
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Film Friday: New Years Eve
in Film Friday📍 WyomingWe had a blast New Years Eve with our friends and I decided to make a movie! This is actually the first year that we did anything to celebrate New Years since, probably, college. Chris usually works until 11:30 or so on New Years Eve and gets home just in time to watch the ball…
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2013 Finis
This past year has been one of the craziest we have ever had. We went from a family of three to a family of four with the birth of our sweet bea. Six weeks later, we left our dreamy island home for someplace far across the country. We bought a giant, gas-guzzling truck, which…
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The Light at the End of the Tunnel
Last week was sort of a rough week for me. Chris was gone for work Monday-Friday and though it wasn’t really much different for the girls from when he was working at the restaurant, it just felt different to me. It was hard not having him in the house at night. I was supposed to…
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Saturday Surfing
📍 WyomingFinds of the Week: 8 New Punctuation Marks We Desperately Need, College Humor — to start things off on an amusing note. Food Policy Action — The 2013 National Food Policy Scorecard ranks each member of the Senate and House on their votes on food issues. Wyoming legislators fail. How do your legislators do? (hat tip, Marion Nestle)…
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SNAP Challenge Week 1
The first week of our SNAP Challenge went well. We only spent $87.89 at the grocery store and actually have quite a few things leftover so I am going to try to delay shopping until Friday. You can see what we bought and what the price breakdown was on this spreadsheet; I will be updating…
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And Then Life Happened
November was the craziest roller coaster of a month. Never in my life have I seen something go from rosy and perfect to miserable and horrible so quickly. One week Chris was cooking in a cabin in the Big Horns for Dick Cheney and just a week later everything was turned upside down. Honestly, when…
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The SNAP/Food Stamps Challenge
We are, understandably, budgeting a little tighter this month and one of the first things we decided to reign in is our grocery bill. To be honest, we haven’t been doing much food budgeting since we moved here at the end of February (despite all those years of keeping on top of every last penny…
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Post-Thanksgiving Gratitude
📍 WyomingThis is my last thankful post for 30 Days of Thanks. On Thanksgiving there was so much to be thankful for: both girls cooperating so that Chris and I could sleep in until 9:30(!), of course delicious food, Chris being home with us when we thought he was going to have to be at work,…
