The past two weeks have just flown by. I tried sitting down to write a few times, but the words would either fail me or come out frustrated and upset… neither of which I could (our would want to) publish. So instead of worrying about my lack of blogging creativity, I sewed, crocheted, cleaned, organized […]
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It’s Friday, so that means that it’s finally time to properly introduce and start posting about Living Frugal Friday. Over the next few weeks (and possibly months), I want to talk about the ways that our family is saving money just by making some simple changes. When Ray and I bought our home a little
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It’s Friday afternoon and the icy wind is blowing up a storm outside. Inside though, two of our three minions are still napping, while the third is greedily licking a small spoonful of Nutella. It’s on cold days like this, where I prefer either a nice creamy soup or homemade pizza for dinner… and because
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It’s official… the first trimester is behind me and we’re moving on through the second trimester, one day at a time. Ray and I got to have another little look at Minion #3 a few weeks ago… we got to bring home a few more photos of the little one…
It is Tuesday night and the kids are in their room fighting with sleep, but thankfully not with each other. I’m listening to them talk to each other… it’s more nonsense than anything else… and I can’t help but wonder what it will be like when a third child is added to the bunch. The
First trimester update Read More »
So I started this year with great intentions… take some more fun vacations, sew more, write more, craft something new every week, as well as try new recipes weekly… It turns out though that the only thing that I’ve been keeping up with so far (and even there I have skipped a week or two)
The thing about being an introvert, is that it is so very hard to really put yourself out there for everyone to see. Even when “hiding” behind a computer screen and typing the words out on the keyboard, it’s tough to step over that imaginary line drawn on the ground, hit publish, and just bare it all for the world to see without censoring yourself in some way.
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I thought that I would check in really quickly… the kids are napping and I’m waiting for the dryer to finish doing its thing. This past month has been an interesting one!! I’m doing okay (though not great) on my resolutions so far… I missed one week on both the craft and recipe goals. The
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The holidays are over, the decorations taken down, and the tree put away for another 11 months… or something like that.
Resolutions, schmezolutions Read More »
Baby mine, don’t you cry.Baby mine, dry your eyes.Rest your head close to my heart,Never to part,Baby of mine.Like many other children, Noah and Abby have a few bedtime rituals that must be followed… one of which involves me singing multiple songs {both in English and German… and it’s really cute to listen to them