Monthly Archives: January 2008

Day 152: No Spend Day

By Suburban Wife | Published: January 31, 2008
We worked hard, and some­times hardly worked, today on decid­ing which of my mom’s pos­ses­sions she’d be tak­ing with her, what my sis­ters want, what I wanted, and what would be got­ten rid of.  There were chil­dren to enter­tain and feed.  Some­one came by to inspect the house.  Some­one else came by to look at [...]
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Day 151: Train Tickets, Bus Fare, Concert Tickets, Water & Food

By Suburban Wife | Published: January 30, 2008
What a day.  A long day.  An excit­ing day.  An expen­sive day. Train Tick­ets — $10.50 The kids and I took pub­lic trans­porta­tion to the event of a life­time — to see Barack Obama speak.  Words can­not express the experience. Con­cert Tick­ets — $88.00 The Son and I will be going to see The Capi­tol Steps in this spring.  I’m [...]
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Day 150: First-Rate Books & Last-Minute Travel

By Suburban Wife | Published: January 29, 2008
Oh, my.  I can’t even begin to describe the day I’ve had today.  Ups and downs and last-minute sched­ule changes and gen­eral run­ning around like a busy mom with­out enough hours in the day or tools in my belt. The day started out qui­etly enough, though early because I took care of The Daughter’s early morn­ing cross-town [...]
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Day 149: Liquid Gold & Groceries

By Suburban Wife | Published: January 28, 2008
I only made three pur­chases today.  Two were for liq­uid gold — or, rather, liq­uids that cost a fortune. Safe­way Gas — $54.72 Most after­noons The Daugh­ter gets a ride straight from school to prac­tice.  Then The Hus­band picks her up and brings her home.  Most of my chauf­feur­ing duties these days involve The Son.  But every once [...]
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Day 148: Religion, Politics, & Food

By Suburban Wife | Published: January 27, 2008
Church — $15.00 Weekly offering. Old Navy — ($12.91) Returned the two pack­ages of men’s size small briefs.  I was talk­ing to the man­ager about some­thing else and men­tioned my frus­tra­tion about the fact that Old Navy’s boy’s size 18 pants have an inseam that is 4″ shorter than Gap’s boy’s size 18 pants; Old Navy doesn’t offer an waist/inseam siz­ing com­bi­na­tion [...]
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