a peek inside the fishbowl

I don’t spend a lot of time poking around in my own archives, but sometimes it’s fun to look back. This “year in review” post is something I used to do awhile back, but somehow lost sight of somewhere along the way. These are the first lines from the first blog post of each month in […]

There’s a giant list of free (FREE!) things to do with kids (indoors AND outdoors) on the Capital Parent website. You may want to check it out if you’re looking for something to do this week! :)

Since Christmas 2006 our family has participated in a self-imposed annual “Shopping Embargo.” This basically meant that we stopped buying unnecessary stuff and paid greater attention to the things we did buy. There was a list of rules, but basically, from December 26 until February 28 we restricted our purchases to the basic necessities: groceries, fuel, […]