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Fort Collins, CO
Voluntary Simplicity
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September 23, 2014

Northern Colorado Urban Homestead Tour

This weekend we went on the Northern Colorado Urban Homestead Tour.  The tour was a fundraiser for The Gardens[...]

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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
Life
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December 11, 2013

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 breakd[...]

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Gillette, WY
Life
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December 2, 2013

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 (desp[...]

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Gillette, WY
Finances
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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
Wordless Wednesday
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August 1, 2012

Wordless Wednesday: CSA Love/Hate…

A.K.A. There's More Coming on Friday...

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Nantucket, MA
Recipes & Canning, Voluntary Simplicity
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December 5, 2011

Apple Butter

Whenever I make apple butter, I always think of my brother Brandon.  Growing up, I never really liked apple butter, but he loved it.  Chris loves it too, and I've come around enough to eat my own apple butter, so it's generally a fall traditio[...]

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Nantucket Island
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October 7, 2011

Changing Seasons

At the beginning of the month, we were still running around in short sleeves. Still building "sand castles" and pretending it's summer.  Not long before that -- just days -- we were taking advantage of one last chance for bathing suits, water,[...]

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Jan 22

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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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Nov 30

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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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