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Menu Plan, week of July 17th
Shortly after I moved, one of my friends asked me when I was going to make a menu plan again. “After I finish unpacking,” was my reply. However, wandering the aisles of my new grocery store (I love...
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Guest Post: Keeping Kids Busy During Your Move
A week or so ago, I received an email from a moving company, TSI, asking if a couple of articles they wrote would be appealing as guest posts. In the past, my guest posts have only been from people I...
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Menu Ideas for the Nine Days
fish heads, fish heads, roly poly fish heads It’s hard to believe that the Nine Days are already upon us. They just snuck right up. In case you’re not familiar with the rules for food during Nine...
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What’s Your Take Results: Who manages the finances in your house?
I got the idea for this poll after having a conversation with my friend, E. She was mentioning something about paying bills or managing finances. It came out in the course of the conversation that my...
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Clear Surfaces, Clear Mind. Part One: Above the Fridge
I haven’t been reading much of the news from the bombing; it was making me far too sad. My heart is aching for everyone in Boston, and for our country. I mean, yeah. It’s just heartbreaking. But...
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How I Packed Up My Whole Life Without Losing My Mind*
*while it isn’t entirely accurate, I liked this title (thanks Renée A. Schuls-Jacobson!) so much more than my other choice, which was “It’s not moving until someone’s laughing maniacally.” Growing up,...
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Maybe I Shouldn’t Have Internet in My Home
So, it’s Elul. It’s that time of year for introspection, and thoughts of self-improvement, and taking a good, hard look at what’s been working for us and what hasn’t been. Rosh Chodesh came and went,...
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Owning a Home, Murphy’s Law, and Sewage
Buy a house, they said. Do it while the interest rates are low, they said. Don’t wait, they said. Well, we did it. Not because of those reasons, but more because we found a house we liked. After...
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Spiritual Materialism
The winners of the sectioned-plate giveaway are announced at the bottom of the post, so if that’s all you’re here for, scroll on down! It’s really amazing what you can get used to living without. Like...
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Things I Learned When My Fridge Stopped Working on Rosh Hashana
Yes, you read that correctly. When I opened the refrigerator on Thursday night to take out the food for the next meal, I noticed that the temperature inside the fridge was . . . not cold. I closed...
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You might imagine that I constantly have music playing in my house, subtly influencing my children and setting a beautiful tone for my life. You would be mistaken. I don’t know what it is, but...
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