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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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It's that time again... Girl Scout cookies! And this year we have two selling. Help them meet their cookies sales goals by ordering online. 

If you live nearby, choose girl delivery and help get cookie boxes out of our garage... Otherwise we're going to be giving them Girl Scout  Cookies for birthday and Christmas presents all year.

Addie's link: https://tinyurl.com/2os3rmdy

Zara's link: https://tinyurl.com/2nev4fs3

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Bus stop selfie with Nora. This week she moved from her tiny charter school with only 18 eighth graders to the public middle school with over 200. And now she rides the bus.

The charter school wasn't challenging her enough, has a huge percentage of students who are disruptive in the classroom, and has been having trouble keeping teachers. Last year she loved it. But this year it was one thing after another, so right before Thanksgiving she and I went to go tour our neighborhood  middle school, and she immediately wanted to make the switch.

We've never had a kid in public school and I was nervous about how the transition would go from such a small school to a big one, but so far she's loving it and is glad she decided to move schools. It helps that she knows kids there already from her dance team. Hopefully she'll still be happy when she starts getting homework. Coming from a no homework school that may be a shock to us all.

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My three year old girl. 💕

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Halloween 2022. Two witches, a murderous cat, and a creepy Victorian doll. 

Zara's costume was my favorite this year - Nora did her makeup and she wore my flower girl dress from my mom and step-dad's wedding. She might have worn it better. 😂

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Visiting my sweet tiny niece. I had the honor of being the doula at her birth and helping her come into the world. Her parents did amazingly (especially her mama) and everyone is excited to have another little girl in the family.
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