Christmas 2020
It’s 2021 and Christmas seems far away already. But we had a very cozy and quiet December culminating in a . . . cozy and quiet holiday. Very different from […]
Category Archives: Frugality
I Love Cheap Thrills
Baby, I don’t need dollar bills to have fun… on vacation. Vacation wins: I booked directly with the hotel chain and joined their rewards club (for free) and got a […]
Adapt, Create, Nurture, Ponder
August. When you kind of want to go to the pool but not really. When you sort of want school to start but not really. When you feel like you […]
Magic Wagon Ride
On a recent Saturday morning, I took my trusty beach wagon back to the supermarket. The first time I did this, no one batted an eye, but on Saturday I […]
Summer Spending
We are past Memorial Day and into summer, which means it’s time to figure out just how much all the summer fun is going to cost me. The town pool […]
June, She Comes So Soon
Busy busy busy, but spring soccer has finally wrapped up and Flat Stanley is finished, ostensibly the last Flat Stanley project that I’ll ever oversee. The Blacktop Bash has come […]
This Never Happened
Wow, it’s May 19. How did that happen? Sorry for the gap in blogging. To find out what happened, I refer you to my memoir, set to be published in […]
First Day of Spring
On this first day of spring, my bedroom garden is doing well. Well, not the chives. I need to get rid of that pot or replant it. On Sunday, I […]
Experience Has Made Me Rich
[This is a post that I started at the beginning of the month but never quite wrapped up. Just going to publish it as is, too busy to edit further!] […]
Great Moments in Parenting
One Evening This Past Week Gemma and I are watching TV and an ad for Universal Studios theme park comes on. “Mom, can we go there? Ya know, since Great […]
