Static archive of a family blog, 2008–2017. This blog is no longer active.

Category: Random

Savvy Shopper Deals

I have been couponing (is that a word?) for about a month now. I spend an hour and a half cutting out the coupons from my 5 papers Sunday night. I have a 2" zipper binder full of coupons in baseball card holders that I…

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Side Projects and Productivity

I have this problem; I like to learn new things and I like to try new things. As a result I end up putting more on my plate than I can handle (which incidentally is also my problem with food. Weird). I get all of…

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New Blog Theme

As you may or may not have noticed the blog has a new theme. It as been a log time coming and I want to make sure it works good. If you see anything missing that you are used to using or have a comment…

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Learn: The Greenhouse Effect

So I had already written out my post and published it, but not even a whole minute later, I deleted it. :( This one will probably be a little short because of that. Sorry. I decided to learn about the greenhouse effect. I have heard…

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Learn: White Sauce

This week I just happened to walk by a book that caught my eye entitled Sauces: Classical and Contemporary Sauce Making by James Peterson. At first I thought that I would learn a brief overview of sauces and/or the making of sauces and be done…

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Learn Something

There is so much out there to learn. As I go through out my day to day life I am confronted time and again with different subjects and topics that seem interesting to me and that I have a desire to try to learn something…

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My other new baby

Here is a picture of the truck I just bought.

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Rose Bud

Well, Maggie keeps telling me that I am proud of my lawn. I just have to say that if you had rose bushes like these you would be too. Enjoy.

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Sad New - Story

I decided that I like to create and to write. I know that I am not very good at it, yet. I came across a competition that gave a prompt and had a word limit. I decided to try my hand. The prompt was: "A…

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Our Trip and Birthdays

Next week we are going to go on our once a year alone trip in the midst of a big family trip. It is suppose to be our 5 year anniversary thing, but that doesn't happen until August (a few weeks after baby number 3).…

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