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Family Traditions
Oh, my. I am so in love with our new Valentine’s tradition. Here’s where we landed:On Valentine’s Day, we wake up early and make waffles for breakfast. We set up the waffle maker on the table with an extension cord, so we can make them while we are eating them. Each time one comes out, we split it into fourths so we each get a piece. This year, we also made our own whipped cream. It’s so easy, fun, and tasty!During breakfast, we make a list of what we want to do to celebrate our “Family Day of Love” in the evening. This year, our list included:- Movie
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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
