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Valentine’s Traditions
My sweet almost 7 year-old loves traditions and rituals even more than I do. He cracks me up.He’s requesting some kind of tradition for Valentine’s Day. Once we start something, he will never, ever forget it. So I feel some pressure to get it right the first year.The hard thing is that Valentine’s Day is so close to my birthday and his birthday, so I don’t want to do anything that overlaps with our birthday traditions. Henry suggested that we write love letters to each other, but I’ll already be writing Henry a letter on his birthday. It might be fun to get a cake on Valentine’s Day,… Read More -
Getting Our Budget Under Control
I’ve been sharing that Matt and I have some credit card debt that we want to actively pay down. As part of that, we have been trying to religiously use Mint.com. I’ve heard great things about You Need a Budget as well, but we are already all set up with Mint.com, so we are sticking with it and trying to maximize our experience with it.One of the annoying things about Mint.com is that it won’t let you delete the budget categories that you aren’t using. When it automatically assigns expenditures to categories, it frequently assigns them to categories that we aren’t even using in our budget. When that happens,… Read More -
My Favorite New Thing
I know this is a dumb post, but I couldn’t help but share my new favorite things: food covers.I am really, really trying not to buy things on Amazon, but I have been wanting these for more than a year. I saw them at a birthday party at the park, and they make so much sense in Texas! I regretted not having them all throughout last year whenever we hosted a party on our deck. I ended up trying to cover the food with dishtowels, which makes it very difficult to see what is available to eat!I’m excited to try these out at Henry’s birthday party!
