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No Spend Month, Marriage, Menus, & Miscellany - Collage Friday

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January is no spend month in our house. What does this mean?

It means we're not spending unless it's a necessity or an otherwise planned expense. No eating out. No impulse buying. No buying books on Amazon (this is HARD!). No grabbing a Starbucks on the way to piano lessons (ouch - I usually do that).

So, this is me, brewing my own fancy coffee at home and taking it in the van to piano lessons. 

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Crying, Cooking, and More: Collage Friday

  

It's been two weeks since I returned from Ecuador

I'm finding myself feeling helpless and sad. I know these are normal feelings to have after a trip of this magnitude.  I think I've cried more in the past two weeks than I have in the past two years combined. 

My husband and children have been so patient with me - I think the trip affected all of us in untold ways, too. (You'll see an example of that later in this post.)

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