Wyoming
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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,…
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Saturday Surfing
📍 WyomingFinds of the Week: By Focusing on the Opt-Outers, We Are Ignoring the Real Issues with Common Core, Slate — “we should all give a little more thought to how the new testing push is affecting people like Tiffany, a young woman from Queens who wants to be a nurse, but still lacks a high school diploma…
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Thankful for New Beginnings
📍 WyomingAnother week of thanks has flown by and it is nearly the end of this little project. If this year is anything like last year, it will feel very strange December 1st to not post what I am thankful for and to not be able to read other people’s 30 Days of Thanks posts. I…
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30 Days of Thanks Time Warp
📍 WyomingI thought I might take a moment to throw up a post for those of you (hi Grandma!) who don’t use Facebook or Instagram. I have been doing 30 Days of Thanks there but haven’t had too much time to blog so I’m going to play a little catch up on blogging my thankfulness from…
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30 Days of Thanks: How Things Turned Out
📍 WyomingI posted a silly Instagram yesterday about being thankful for bucket car seats so I could get things done while Zara snoozed, but in reality the past few days I have been thankful for much, much bigger things. You see, one year ago today my husband came home from a meeting with his employers with…
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30 Days of Thanks: Ms. J
📍 WyomingToday I am thankful for our wonderful mother’s helper/babysitter. “Ms. J” comes to our house two mornings a week which enables me to catch up on cleaning, work on websites, and even go to regular P.E.O. meetings again. The girls love her and she is phenomenal with them — she even plays the games that…
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30 Days of Thanks: My Mom
📍 WyomingToday, I am thankful for my mom. She was the very best mom she could be through some really tough situations, and she never gave up on me. We definitely had some rocky moments when I was a teenager (boy, do I have karma coming to me the second the girls turn 12…), but we…
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30 Days of Thanks: Diwali
📍 WyomingYesterday was Diwali and, as is our tradition, we celebrated with a big party filled with friends, food, and candle light. I was too tired last night to manage two blog posts, but hopefully I can do two today and then I will be all caught up on 30 Days of Thanks. Yesterday, day 3,…
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30 Days of Thanks, Day 2 (a little late)
📍 WyomingThis is just a quick, late, for-the-record post. I laid down with Zara last night and completely passed out — when I finally opened my eyes, it was 7 am. Not that I am complaining, mind you, but there were a couple things I had intended to do like share my gratitude for the day.…
