Can you believe we are in the final month of the year?! Today I’m wrapping up a few of the themes from this year and in January I’ll be introducing my themes for the new year… 2020, here we come… but first a look back at 2019: Continue reading
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On Homemade Halloween Costumes and Mom Guilt
Last week, I posted an instagram story confessing that I’d spent the last 2.5 hours since the kids went to bed working on Halloween costumes… and that I was seriously wondering why I hadn’t just bought costumes from Costco… I was surprised at how many fellow mamas responded to that story so I wanted to expand my thoughts a bit more… Continue reading
Frugal Favorites: Return to the Library…
I’ve written before about how much I absolutely LOVE the library– and today I’m coming at you with another edition of why you should be patronizing and supporting your local library, as well as highlighting some specifically cool things you can check out at the Phoenix Public Library for all my Arizona readers. Continue reading
Just spend the gift card…
I have a confession to make… I am a gift card hoarder. Continue reading
Frugal: My closet
OK, time for a post on where we are trying hard to be super frugal- clothing! There are some ways we are doing this that feel successful, and other areas where I feel we are still struggling and can improve. Continue reading
Frugal Fun: Birthday Treats!
So I had a lot of fun celebrating my birthday last week. I celebrated all day long and the only thing we paid for was childcare and a movie ticket for my birthday date that night to Avengers: Endgame. The best part is? I still have birthday treats to come! After asking for suggestions on instagram, I had a few people follow up and asked what birthday treats I scored for free, so I thought I’d write a little blog post about where you can get some birthday freebies. Continue reading
Frugal Friday: SPRING GARDEN
One of my favorite healthy ways to cut our grocery bill is to use what we have growing in the garden! Continue reading
Frugal Friday: Freezer Meals 2.0
A few years ago I wrote about some of our favorite freezer meals to make in bulk. In preparation to being back in rehearsals almost every night we made a whole bunch of freezer meals and in honor of that, I thought I’d write about a few more in anticipation of Frugal Friday tomorrow… Continue reading
Values Based Budgeting
I’ve learned a lot about budgeting over the past year and a half. It started out of necessity… Continue reading
January Wrap Up and February Goals
The first month of the year is almost over, and I can’t decide whether it flew by or felt like the longest month ever… anyone else feel that way? Anyway, here’s a re-cap of how my January goals went and what’s on the tending list for February. OH, and if you want to jump on the Powersheets train… you can get them HERE (they are almost sold out of the yearly planners and those will definitely be gone by the next time I post a monthly goals post so now is the time!) Continue reading
Alphabet Resolutions 