Suburban Wife’s Daily Dollar Diary

a financial voyeur’s dream come true: all the intimate details of how, where, and why I spend money

Counting My Blessings: #9

Just in case you’ve missed any of them, here are my earlier posts in this thread:

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
Blessing #8 — My Mom

Today’s blessing — The Husband’s [...]

$$: All The Usual Suspects

Total Spent Today: $79.56

Ah, another day in suburbia; another day in the life of a suburban wife and mother.
Physical Therapy — $25.00
We started the day with a physical therapy session for The Son.  His broken clavicle is healing nicely and PT is coming along nicely too.  The therapist gave The Son several additional Range-of-Motion exercises as well as [...]

Carnival of Family Life ~ Snowman edition

Welcome to the Snowman edition of the Carnival of Family Life.  My thanks to Colloquium for allowing me the honor of hosting this week’s carnival.
Education
Shay presents Core Strength posted at The Life Without School Community Blog.
Melitsa presents Overlooked creative toy posted at Play-Activities.com.
Family Cooking & Recipes
Annette Berlin presents Oven-Baked Grilled Cheese Sandwich posted at Craft [...]

Counting My Blessings: #8

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.  [...]

$$: Gas in the Tank

Total Spent Today: $27.44

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.

Upcoming Carnival of Family Life

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.  [...]

Counting My Blessings: #7

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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