Bringing the Grocery Budget Back to Reality: A Four Week Challenge
A month-long challenge to drag the family's grocery budget back down to earth after a period of overspending.
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When the long-awaited prognosis is “there’s no hope for recovery.” What then?
To set the scene, you’re at the doctor with a complaint. They diagnose the problem and your first reaction is relief (that you’re not crazy and it’s an actual ‘thing’)…
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What I'm Reading
This is the price that I gladly pay for raising literate children.
We all know that reading to children increasing their vocabulary, encourages speech and language development and promotes healthy brain development. But did you know that it also creates unbreakable bonds…
Oven-Baked Black Bean Burger Recipe
An exceptionally easy, oven-baked black bean burger recipe that is both easy on the wallet and your health.
Even when I think I’m an adult, I’m not really an adult. Can my kids fire me?
Some days, I am sure that I have it all together (like, really, really sure, positive even). On those days, I am adulting at gold medal levels. I’m feeding children,…
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As it turns out that like my mother before me, elephants make me cry.
Long ago: When I was young, on Sunday nights at 6 p.m. on CBC (channel 5, cable 6 in Toronto), The Wonderful World of Disney would sometimes play a full-length…
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Money Woes Lead to Money, Whoa! – The Results
A week has passed. Here’s a breakdown of how the ‘no-spend, no-shop’ week went: Monday Spent entire $30 budget (plus $0.76 on yogurt, raspberries, milk, eggs, shortening and sugar). Hmmmm.…
Money Woes Lead to Money, Whoa!
Yes, I’m exaggerating. I don’t have actual money ‘woes’ (bills are paid, everyone is well-fed, clothed, entertained and the future is being saved for) but I did notice that some…
Confessions of an unhinged blogger
Family
Posts for the sake of my own sanity
Serious stuff
True stories
Mourning the end of my Fertility chapter and sharing my internal conversation, with hope.
I often have full blown conversations in my head (well, when we’re all lucky they stay in my head anyway). I provide the dialogue for both sides of the conversation,…
Subtly, slowly, my life is changing. Oh, and Pax turns 10
One of the alarming thoughts that wakes me from my deepest sleeps in the middle of the night has come to fruition. To some, this may sound stupid and I…