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Fort Collins, CO
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November 20, 2018

Colorado House Renovation Before and After, Part 2

This is part two of my blog post about how we flipped our own house, doing a renovation and updating in 6 weeks, prior to listing it for sale.  In Part One, I showed you the major changes upstairs when we took a wall between the dining, liv[...]

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Fort Collins, CO
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November 10, 2018

Designed to Sell: Flipping Our House, Part 1

It's officially been a year since I arrived in Texas.  When we decided to list our house for sale during our spontaneous cross-country move, I somehow managed to talk Chris into taking a gamble on a full renovation and trying to "flip" our[...]

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Fort Collins, CO
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June 3, 2015

Debt Free

It is officially summer in Colorado.  We have a mini garden started with some veggies and berries, we've taken our first trip to buy delicious things from the farmer's market, and this afternoon Chris and I rode bikes (together!)[...]

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Gillette, WY
Finances, Life
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January 13, 2014

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 chall[...]

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Gillette, WY
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April 30, 2013

Eating Local in Wyoming

One of the first things I looked up about our new community prior to leaving Nantucket was information on the food scene.  Eating sustainable foods, gown locally and in season are very important to us because we believe that is on of t[...]

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Nantucket, MA
Finances, Nantucket Island
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March 30, 2012

The Cost of Paradise

Note: Normally, today would be a Film Friday post, but tomorrow is town meeting and I didn't have a chance to get this post finished up last night, so I'm sharing it tonight before tomorrow's big vote.  Film Friday will resume next week.[...]

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Nantucket, MA
Finances, Parenting
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June 27, 2010

The Cost of Raising a Child

This week the USDA published its annual report on Expenditures on Children by Families and the numbers are shocking - to me at least.  It costs an average middle-income American family $222,360 to raise a child from birth to 18. Depending[...]

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Life Right Now

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Multitasking between performances at this weekend's dance competition.

Image Alt: open laptop showing the Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker website in the foreground and an empty stage in a crowded auditorium.

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Mar 13

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We had a cold snap and yesterday we had to get all bundled up for Zara's soccer game. It was 30 degrees and, despite these pictures, Vivi's patience for being out there did not last long. Tomorrow it's supposed to be 80 degrees and we're really looking forward to warmth again.

By the way, my awesome gaiter came from our client @isacattostudio. Isa paints patterns and makes really beautiful textiles and notebooks with her patterns. ♥️ her work and team.

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Yesterday we got our first taste of summer. It was warm enough that we got out the sprinkler in the afternoon. I worked most of the day but had a nice break for a couple hours in the afternoon during which I sat outside listening  to music and watching the 4 of them dance in the yard. I couldn't ask for much more on a Monday.

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The best thing about having a king sized bed is having space for cuddle bugs.

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Walking around the neighborhood with Z and I'm reliving my first experience with entrepreneurship: @girlscouts cookie sales. My mom was our troop leader (all the way through Juniors) and I remember our garage piled high with boxes and boxes of cookies. 

It's fun watching Z try her hand at sales. She is fearless and no problem describing every cookie to complete strangers. Despite having never done it before, she has an incredibly aggressive goal of selling 1500 boxes of cookies. If any kid can do it, though, I think she can.
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