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Budget Schmudget
Vintage piggy bank from EtsyLiving on one income is no fun at all (I apologize to those of you who are living on no income; I can only begin to imagine how whiny I sound!). Although Henry pays me daily with smiles and coos, we’re still hemorrhaging money.… Read MoreWe’ll it’s not as bad as it sounds. We have money in savings that we can use to cover our expenses while I’m on maternity leave and work to start a public Montessori charter school, but we don’t really want to spend that money, since we also want to build a house in a pocket neighborhood.
Hmm…I’m realizing that I
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Happy, Happy Halloween!
Phew! Henry’s first Halloween ended up being fun after all.For a while there, I was a bit depressed that I went out of my way to dress him up as his favorite thing (his bloodhound brother, Hoss) and he wasn’t cooperating. Every time I put his bloodhound hat on (thank you, Lilly!) he would pull it right off, even when the chin strap was secured.… Read MoreEven at the beginning of the day I figured it was futile to try and dress him up at all. I didn’t make him a collar or a tail, and I didn’t bother finding a brown outfit to perfectly match his hat.
Plus, we
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Eight Months: Happy Birthday, Henry!
Henry! You are growing and changing so much.… Read MoreThis month as been all about crawling. You army crawled from 5-7 months, and from 7-8 months you figured out it was faster to get up on all fours. You go especially fast when you’re headed toward something you aren’t supposed to reach, like the toilet or Hoss’s bowls. You’ve also figured out how to pull open doors, so you love letting yourself out of your room when you wake up.
You’re still pulling up on everything. Luckily, you’ve figured out how to get down really easily (although you still bonk your head occasionally). You move from crawling to sitting and back
