It's the day before Thanksgiving, the day I make the desserts, deep clean the house, and put on Christmas music for the first time of the year (in theory; Abe was listening to a Christmas CD ...
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One lovely hot summer morning the kids wake up, two and eight years old. The sun has risen two hours prior around 5am. The air conditioner kicked on before anyone woke to chase out the heat in th...
Fresh air Sunshine Warmth Family, friends, and yummy food
I am looking forward to the new, as always. Of starting a new chapter. Certainly of leaving behind 2020. Of a fresh calendar filled with holidays and birthdays. I have goals, dreams, ideas of wha...
Goals, to-do's; I sometimes think I might be the most dysfunctional person I know. I generally have a few million goals/ to-do's swirling around and fighting with each other in my head. Generally...
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Last week Friday was a field trip day. We went to a really fun farm/ petting zoo with a ton of other homeschoolers and picked pumpkins from their pumpkin patch. It's sort of become ...
This year has been nothing if not absurd. I decided towards the end of last month that I was just done with it, done with the "chalk it up to 2020," done with the frustration, annoyances, overwhe...
http://mymoneystory.blogspot.com/2020/10/speak-strength-live-with-honour.html
One very positive thing that can be said for this wacky year is that my family got a whole lot of Vitamin D. Between the stay at home orders (which, to clarify, instructed people that i...
http://mymoneystory.blogspot.com/2020/10/walked-through-it.html
I did plant carrots this year! I used up all the remaining seeds I had from years prior, a good sprinkling of purple carrot seeds and not quite as many traditional orange. They weren't plan...
http://mymoneystory.blogspot.com/2020/09/because-you-asked-about-carrots.html
In June, wowwy that seems like a million years ago, the baby sister turned TWO! I last posted about my Abe in May so here's a quick update about our little feisty Wren. And feisty she is!...
How do you navigate the intense political discourse thickening/ darkening the atmosphere like a billion hungry bats out for blood? The two sides are so unbelievably polarized that they've liter...
http://mymoneystory.blogspot.com/2020/09/digital-connection-social-media-world.html
This year has been... yeah, um. Anyway, the summer here was quite hot. Today at the tale end of it all, when glimpses of autumn are beginning to peak through, the breeze was cool, storm cloud...
http://mymoneystory.blogspot.com/2020/09/its-that-time-again.html
June (May)31 thru (June)6 GROCERIES: $177.17 PETS: $39.05 EATING OUT: $92.48 Goodness gracious we ate out a lot this week! Fajitas one night, burritos one night, fast food breakfast on...
http://mymoneystory.blogspot.com/2020/06/spending-june-week-1.html
My Abe is 8 years old, 8 years plus 2 months. You know how the old saying goes: time flies! He had a fantastic birthday party this year, a Nerf-ing party with a handful of his closest friends...
WELL, things have gotten worse. Hooray! A relative passed last week. No visitations. No funeral. Nothing. This whole thing is so... His very elderly wife is now in the hospital with the virus. ...
http://mymoneystory.blogspot.com/2020/05/walks-toilet-paper-hazard-pay-murder.html
I've lost all my marble folks. They're gone. I'm pretty sure my son is devising an escape plan. He's been homeschooled since day one but even so he is beyond stir crazy. He needs friends and he...
http://mymoneystory.blogspot.com/2020/04/its-totally-okay-for-life-to-suck.html
Quick rundown because I'm ten days behind on posting spending (falling behind is bad) February 1 thru 8 GROCERIES: $132.61 EATING OUT: $33.78 HOUSEHOLD SUPPLIES/ TOILETRIES: $21.27 STUFF: ...
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Food Groceries $641.43 Food out $175.31 PETS $0 HOUSEHOLD SUPPLIES/ TOILETRIES $73.28 CLOTHING $26.98 STUFF $62.96 > STUFF SUBCATEGORIES > -CHRISTMAS $9.32 > pan>-Gifts $16.74 en $0 ...
http://mymoneystory.blogspot.com/2020/02/january-numbers-are-in-only-like-17.html
But there weren't any guests or cake. Remember how I told you that we were going to be getting a puppy this year? Both of our pups passed away last year. We had to say good-bye to our sweet, sw...
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January 26 thru January 31 GROCERIES: $164.08 EATING OUT: $15.89 My husband got an order of fajitas for himself one night when I didn't feel like eating or cooking. The kids had hot dogs th...
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Dinner at our house last week: SUNDAY - Two orders of fajitas from a restaurant and two free kids meals. MONDAY - Chicken and vegetable soup. I've gotten into the habit of boiling a chicken on S...
http://mymoneystory.blogspot.com/2020/01/peek-at-grocery-budget-meal-rundown.html
January 19 thru January 25th I am no where near the $24 a day budget I'm shooting for BUT I'm not upset with my spending. We haven't been eating out much (about once a week). My husband would...
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I've woke up well before the kiddos this morning. Generally Abe wakes up before anyone. I've had a very lovely few hours of quiet time. I haven't been able to comment in blogger for awhile now an...
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January 12th thru the 18th GROCERIES: $192.65 I purchased two pounds of salmon, a whole chicken, and several pounds of ground beef this week. Right there my grocery bill spiked. Oh yeah, my hus...
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January 1st through January 11th GROCERIES: $160.83 HOUSEHOLD SUPPLIES/ TOILETRIES: $22.98 I've included diapers under this category but we shall begin potty training next month so I anticipate...
http://mymoneystory.blogspot.com/2020/01/first-spending-tally-of-year.html