Wednesday, June 27, 2012


For me, one of the hardest parts of sticking to a budget is overcoming boredom. I'm always home with the kids so even going out to Taco Bell can be a thrilling change of scenery. But we've been finding ways around our meal-time mundane by eating over our fire pit in the backyard. These meals aren't ever fancy, but they are certainly fun. And we always finish our campfire meals with S'mores, of course.

Howdy!

Monday, June 18, 2012


We found Avril reading her book, as usual, but doing it while trying out the baby's seat, blanket and pacifier.

Thursday, June 14, 2012


"That bee's pollen baskets are full!" - Norah

Look closely. She's right.

Thursday, June 7, 2012




Norah caught a moth and it hung out with the girls for a few minutes.

Wednesday, June 6, 2012


Norah found this egg shell in our backyard. We looked it up and found out it belongs to a robin!

Monday, June 4, 2012


We harvested the first two strawberries from our garden. Luckily there were two; one for Norah, one for Avril.

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Graduate School

Much of my time this week is dedicated to finishing my final paper for my current Rhetoric class for graduate school.  This is my work stati...