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Road Trip!
This holiday season, we decided to leave the day after Christmas to drive to Nashville for a visit with friends. The chaos of the holidays definitely affected my preparations! I didn’t feel like there was nearly enough time to shop for and prepare food for the car ride. But, thankfully, I have learned some tricks…
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2025 Minimal Meals Month Challenge
This week, I wanted to share the details of our 2025 “Minimal Meals Month” challenge. If you’ve been around a while, then you know we love a good challenge. There’s something fun and interesting about pushing and stretching yourself to see what makes you uncomfortable and what helps you become more creative. Back in October…
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Basement Update
This week, I am finally sharing another basement update. These posts have been few and far between as the entire project has taken much longer than anticipated. We’ve done an extensive amount of work (including relevant improvements to our upstairs) in the process of building out an in-law apartment for my mom. A lot of…
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Weekly Christmas Celebration – Finale!
This week was our final “Christmas Saturday” (although we ended up doing our weekly celebrations on a Thursday, a Saturday, a Friday…) We stepped up our game for this final celebration and made fun drinks, facilitated a craft for the kids, and prepared an entire feast of festive foods. The fun drink was a mocktail…
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The Christmas Hustle
This week, I paused to reflect on how incredibly quickly this Christmas season is passing. I have heard it again and again from individuals this year. Christmas feels so rushed and sudden. I’m sure it is the result of Thanksgiving being late in November. Or for me personally, the nature of experiencing my first Christmas…
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No-Spend November
This week, I wanted to share a belated recount of my no-spend November challenge. I’ve completed several no-spend challenges before but opted to take a slightly different tact this time. Overall, I think no-spend November was a success for me. The rules were simple: food and Christmas presents are ok and anything else unnecessary was…
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Thanksgiving Challenges
This week, I wanted to share a snapshot of our Thanksgiving festivities. Like many families, we split up our celebrations into multiple gatherings to accommodate the various sides of our families. We had a brunch Thanksgiving morning, the main event Thanksgiving evening, a turkey trot, and a second Thanksgiving on Black Friday. Plus, we technically…
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Meal Prep Sundays – Fall 2024
This week, I’m sharing my most recent Sunday meal prep. I have been meal prepping on Sundays for seven years now. My Sunday schedule has changed a few times over the years so I’m always shifting a little bit. This fall I started volunteering in a Sunday night youth program at our church. I have…
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Still Meal Prepping
This week, I figured we were due for a meal prep post! It’s been a while since I shared any meal prep content, but I haven’t stopped doing it. It’s been squeezed into the rare pockets of time I can find (in this week’s case, that was Sunday night starting at about 6 p.m.). Here’s…
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Update: 2024 Goals
This week, I was reflecting on how quickly the year is coming to an end. I know, I know. It’s only October. But it may as well be December. The next 2 months will go by in a blur with all the holiday festivities and everyday life. I wanted to give a little update on…