DAY 26:
Breakfast: Poptarts (easter egg hunt booty) and the last of the coffee.
Lunch: Leftover Hummus and baba ganoush from saturday
Snacks: Candy and junk from Easter.
I really thought we would drag out the food challenge a few more weeks.  I was hoping for six weeks, but instead we stopped at four.   Mr. A was willing [...]

We are growing very weary of the food challenge.  If we were not spending so much time and energy getting the house ready to go up for sale, I would be more willing to try to cobble together meals from the odds and ends we have.  M’s spring break was also making things harder because [...]

Conversation with M today:
M: Mama, can we make a delicious and nutritious fruit salad?
(Seriously, that is what she said verbatim.)
Me: No.
M: But why not????!!!!
Me: Because we don’t have any fruit.
M: Can’t we buy some?  We just need some oranges and apples and bananas and pineapple!  It would be delicious AND healthy.
Me: No.  We aren’t buying [...]

This weekend, I watched an episode of Oprah from last week with Suze Orman.  It is no secret, I generally like watching the crazy that is Suze.  Her advice tends to support my own conservative financial nature.  But on this episode of Oprah Suze kind of jumped the shark.
On this show Suze actually recommended that [...]

You know all those times over the past couple years when I said I was decluttering?  It appears I may have decluttered a little TOO much.  I am trying to find stuff to use to stage my house and it appears that we own only a very small number of trinkets tchatchkes crap that has [...]