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A Difficult Glimpse Into the Future

We spent this past weekend at my Grandparents’ house (which I will probably always call my grandparents’ house, even though my Grandma passed away just over a year ago).  We used the weekend as a time to visit with family, work on staging their house as my Grandpa was finally changing to a realtor who [...]

June 2011: 12 of 12

The 12th of the month has come and gone, and that means that it’s time for 12 of 12 again. For 12 of 12, I take at least 12 pictures on the 12th of the month, in order to give a small snapshot of our lives.  Then, I pick the 12 that I want to [...]

7 Quick Takes: June 10, 2011 (Vol. 83)

~ 1 ~ I sent Eric a text this week that read: On a scale of 1 – 10, with 1 being as apathetic as a Seattle hipster and 10 being that you want to throw yourself off the Golden Gate Bridge, how sad would you be if we went to Disney World without you? [...]

The Anniversary Post Where I Focus on the Bad Times

Dear Eric, I have scheduled this to be posted at 2:30 pm purposefully. Do you remember where you were at 2:30 pm exactly 15 years ago? You were that 20 year old guy standing in front of a church that was filled far more than you had wanted it to be.  I was the 19 [...]

Summer Staycation: Madison, Wisconsin

I’m so excited to be part of the big Summer Staycation posting today that bloggers all over the blogosphere are taking part in hosted by The Happy Housewife and Springs Bargains!  The idea behind this is that with rising gas prices, as well as so many other things that we budget for (like food) going [...]

Our Food Pantry Donation

  During Lent, as you may remember, we limited the types of things that we could buy from the grocery store.  We didn’t actually end up saving much money (at all), but we ate a lot healthier (given what we were allowed to buy).  Still, I wanted to report back that we did hold up [...]

7 Quick Takes: April 8, 2011 (Vol. 77)

~ 1 ~ We traveled this week to have a family gathering at my Grandparents’ house.  (Yes, as a matter of fact, I do plan to keep calling it my Grandparents’ house, even though my Grandma has been gone for almost a year now.)  This is our fifth time going to visit in the past [...]

7 Quick Takes: March 25, 2011 (Vol. 75)

~ 1 ~ Organizing the Spring Spruce Up and writing up my posts for it (plus doing the craft room makeover) definitely took a lot of my time over the last week!  So much so that I didn’t even write a 7 Quick Takes last week.  I also didn’t write about what happened at our [...]

Simplify Your Family Life Giant Ebook Sale

If you’re looking for my first day of Spring Spruce Up in the Craft Room either scroll down or check out my Spring Spruce Up post (day one) through this link. Corey from Simple Marriage and Mandi from Life…Your Way have brought together some of the top authors in the family life space with 30 [...]

February 2011: 12 of 12

I was excited that this month, the 12th was a Saturday and also fell on a day when we were going to a birthday party and there was a Father-Daughter dance!  Bonus! 1. If there is a schedule up on the dry erase board to remind us when someone is taking meds, that’s never a [...]

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