Category Archives: General Stuff-of-Life

Applegate Farms “Rock the Box” Lunch Box Contest

By Suburban Wife | Published: September 17, 2009
Hey every­one.  I’m really tired this morn­ing.  Really tired.  Can any­one tell me why I always wait until 11:30 at night to make the kids’ lunches? Last night it was a PB&J (Maran­tha organic peanut but­ter & Cas­ca­dian Farm organic Rasp­berry jelly on Rudi’s organic 100% whole wheat bread) for The Daugh­ter.  Plus a sliced Hon­ey­crisp [...]
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Food

By Suburban Wife | Published: September 11, 2009
If this had been a nor­mal day, it would have been a no-spend day.  After all, it’s Fri­day and I typ­i­cally don’t have a car on Fri­day which means I’m stuck at home all day which means I’m not likely to spend money. But it wasn’t a typ­i­cal day.  No it was a there’s-no-milk-in-the-fridge-and-I’m-all-out-of-yogurt-too day.  What’s a [...]
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Sick Kids & Misc Necessary Supplies

By Suburban Wife | Published: August 22, 2009
Kids are still sick.  It’s been a long cou­ple of days — longer for them than me but still.… Based on their symp­toms, and the lack of ill­ness in me and The Hus­band, I’ve diag­nosed them as hav­ing food poi­son­ing.  Vom­it­ing, headaches, body aches.  Nei­ther has eaten more than a few bites in the past two days.  [...]
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Blogus Interruptus

By Suburban Wife | Published: August 20, 2009
I had every inten­tion of post­ing my daily expen­di­tures today, oops, I mean yes­ter­day.  I also had every inten­tion of catch­ing you all up on our visit to see my mom and all of the money I spent on the trip — because spend I did. But it was a busy day, what with an early morn­ing [...]
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Art, Movies, and Mom

By Suburban Wife | Published: August 17, 2009
Today was the last of our three full days vis­it­ing my mom.  We’ll leave here about noon tomor­row and drive back home to wind up the sum­mer and get ready for school to start. I’ve done some pretty seri­ous shop­ping these past three days; I hope to give a full account­ing when I get home.  I always [...]
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