This post contains affiliate links. I did my taxes and I am relieved. It turns out that I earned less money than I thought I did and oddly, that’s a relief to me, That’s because I’m ending up owing a lot less money than I thought I would. Woohoo! I used Turbo Tax, OF COURSE, […]
Tuesday Tip | Get a free Mason jar set!
This post contains affiliate links, which help support this site at no additional cost to you. I don’t usually share deals for Tuesday Tips, but I got an email yesterday letting me know about this and I wanted to share it. So. If you sign up as a new member with TopCashback, you can buy […]
Well, that was an unusual week!
I didn’t really do any cooking this week because last Saturday, I flew out to Lake Tahoe to go skiing with my parents and my siblings. Sort of through happenstance, all four of us kids happened to be available to go, and that’s the first time all of us have been on a ski trip […]
I’m trying 12 cheap/free things that promise to make me happier
Because trying things is fun. And watching other people try things is fun too! I mean, Gretchen Rubin wrote a whole book about trying happiness habits for a year, and the world was pretty interested in that. For this project, I scoured the internet’s lists of habits/practices that promise to make my life happier and […]
My nest has emptied a little bit
I turned 40 in 2018, and on my birthday I remember thinking that this decade, my forties, would probably be a decade full of much more change than my thirties. This is largely due to the stage of life we are in as parents. At the beginning of my thirties, my kids were 9, 7, […]
The cookie-guessing game will be delayed!
This post contains affiliate links. You guys have been asking about it, which makes me smile because I love how much you love this little tradition we have. (If you’re new here: each December, the six of us decorate a cookie and we let you guys guess who made which one. The first one to […]
