Monthly Archives: November 2008

Counting My Blessings: #8

By Suburban Wife | Published: November 30, 2008
If you’ve missed any of the first six posts (seven bless­ings) in this theme, you can check them out here: Bless­ing #1 — Con­nec­tion to Nature and Uni­ver­sal Truths Bless­ing #2 — The Husband Bless­ing #3 — My Health Bless­ings #4 and 5 — My Children Bless­ing #6 — My Circumstances Bless­ing #7 — The Husband’s Health Today’s bless­ing is my mom.  My [...]
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$$: Gas in the Tank

By Suburban Wife | Published: November 30, 2008
Safe­way — $27.44 On the way home from church today, the kids and I stopped to tank up The Tank.  I pumped 16.639 gal­lons at an amaz­ing $1.649 per gal­lon.  The odome­ter read 135,584. I didn’t write a weekly offer­ing check at church this morn­ing because I for­got my checkbook.
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Upcoming Carnival of Family Life

By Suburban Wife | Published: November 30, 2008
Hi read­ers!  I am so pleased (and equally ter­ri­fied) to be host­ing the upcom­ing Car­ni­val of Fam­ily Life. Please be sure to check back in tomor­row to read all of the excel­lent submissions. If you’re not famil­iar with this par­tic­u­lar car­ni­val, the Car­ni­val of Fam­ily Life is a large, well-established weekly car­ni­val fea­tur­ing arti­cles about family-related issues.  [...]
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Counting My Blessings: #7

By Suburban Wife | Published: November 29, 2008
I didn’t post a “Count­ing My Bless­ings” post yes­ter­day — I guess because Thanks­giv­ing was over and every­one else had moved on to Black Fri­day and the big build-up to Christ­mas.  But it isn’t sit­ting well with me — leav­ing off with­out count­ing all of my bless­ings.  So, please bear with me as I con­tinue [...]
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$$: No Spend Day

By Suburban Wife | Published: November 29, 2008
Ah, an honest-to-goodness no-spend day 
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