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Authentic British Scones
In the summer of 2007, my grandparents took their three daughters, three sons-in-law, three grandchildren, and one grandson-in-law on a trip to the United Kingdom to celebrate their 50th anniversary....
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Total Money Makeover Update: May 2011 – Hitting a Milestone
Remember how I keep saying that we’re going to get back on the cash envelope system wagon? This month, I really meant to. But Dexter got called into work the morning I was going to go to the bank, so I...
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Market Monday
On Saturday, Dexter worked the farmers’ market with our roommate Luke. I showed up halfway through and dutifully delivered the apple cider doughnuts. And let me tell you, delivering doughnuts to hot...
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Total Money Makeover Update: June 2011
Goals are a blessing and a curse. They say that statistically there is correlation between writing down goals and achieving success. I don’t know who they are or what sort of study they did, but there...
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Top Ten Ice Cream Recipes
Dexter and I are alike in a lot of ways. We love dogs. We love to read. We love pizza and ice cream. (I know. Can you believe people with such uncommon interests found each other in this great big...
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Wearing Red Lipstick on my (pre-)Anniversary Date
I am usually a fairly modest make-up wearer. I try to match everything from foundation to lip gloss to my natural colors, and wear it only to make all the colors look even. (I’ve come to the conclusion...
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Market Monday & 200th Post Giveaway Winner
I wanted to buy everything at the farmers’ market this week. We’re actually getting both sun and rain here in Iowa (finally!), which means that the more colorful vegetables of summer are finally ready...
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Total Money Makeover Update: September 2011
Hello, internet. It’s been several weeks since I’ve blogged. School started, we got a second renter, Dexter and I have been talking and praying about future dreams, and I just plain didn’t want to....
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Total Money Makeover Update: June 2012
Life has been a tad chaotic since I last posted about our Total Money Makeover progress. After our fire, we lived in a Comfort Inn for 6 weeks. We ate out every night–which is not in our normal...
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Thankfulness and the November 2012 Total Money Makeover Update
Many people have been posting something they’re thankful for each day of November on Facebook. I’ve decided to do the same on a weekly basis, but here in the (relative) quietness of my blog. Here are...
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