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Christmas 2020

January 11, 2021by Gina 1 Comment

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 […]

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Baking, Budget, Cooking, Downtown, Family, Food, Frugality, Gardening, Holiday, Kids

Calamity Kitchen

December 31, 2018by Gina Leave a comment

Happy holidays from the McGuires’, where the house is still kind of trashed and many surfaces still bear a dusting of fire extinguisher residue. But more on that later! We […]

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Baking, Cooking, Downtown, Food, Frugality, Holiday

Let It Go

December 27, 2017by Gina Leave a comment

Another Christmas has come and gone. It‘s been a busy few weeks, full of whiteboard scribblings, scrap paper lists and back-of-the-napkin spending calculations, so let’s catch up. The whiteboard Advent calendar […]

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Baking, Budget, Cooking, Food, Frugality, Gardening, Green Living, Holiday, Kids

Fall Friday Feeling

October 13, 2017by Gina Leave a comment

It’s Friday the 13th but I’m feeling pretty lucky and in a good mood. Maybe because the Eagles won last night. Maybe because it feels like fall, finally. The house […]

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Baking, Cooking, Food, Frugality, Gardening, Green Living, Kids, Renovation

Here We Are Now, Entertain Us

December 31, 2016by Gina Leave a comment

The day after Christmas, my phone screen slowly faded away to black. Broken. I decided I wasn’t in a rush to get a new one. It was break; nothing urgent […]

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Baking, Budget, Food, Holiday, Kids

Every Night Is a Saturday Night

September 2, 2016by Gina Leave a comment

This week is odd. The boys are at a camp at their school from 8 to 3 Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. So we get up early, I make lunches, etc. […]

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Budget, Cooking, Downtown, Food, Frugality, Gardening, Kids, vacation

Christmas Reckoning

December 29, 2015by Gina Leave a comment

December 28th, time to sum up Christmas. In literal terms, the sums I spent were comparable to last year. Not as small as they could have been, but not as […]

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Winter Solstice

December 21, 2015by Gina Leave a comment

Today is the nadir of the year. After today, the sun starts coming back, ever so slowly. Although the sun has been sticking to its script, the weather has not. […]

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Baking, Budget, Food, Gardening, Holiday, Kids

A More Perfect Christmas

December 28, 2014by Gina Leave a comment

It’s December 27, and since 7:30 a.m. on Christmas morning I have not been doing much beyond building with Legos, acting out scenes from “Frozen,” working on jigsaw puzzles, and […]

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Christmas OD

December 19, 2014by Gina Leave a comment

I knew it was coming: although I tried not to, I’ve overdone it a bit on Christmas and now I feel a little Scrooge-ish. Today I’m going to try to […]

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