recession

Cutting Back this Christmas…

by Robin on December 3, 2008

 Christmas and budgets! Think those words don’t go together? Think again! You can still do both with some mad planning skills. I have been wishing I could take the focus off the “stuff” in Christmas for years. This year, thanks to our pay-cut in August and the shenanigans on Wall Street, my wish has come [...]

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Ordinary Things

by Robin on August 1, 2008

~Ordinary Things~ Ordinary things sometimes bring me such comfort.  Warm from the oven chocolate chip cookies.  A clean house.  Stacks of fresh folded laundry.  Happy pups napping in their beds in the kitchen.  All week I’ve been focused on things like this.  I’ve battoned down the hatches so to speak and nestled in.  Mike and [...]

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