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$$: School Lunches, Milk, & Vitamins

By Suburban Wife | Published: January 19, 2010
School Lunches — $41.10 Three weeks’ worth of hot (mostly) organic school lunches for The Son.  Well, three weeks’ worth of his allot­ted two meals per week, that is.  That includes 6 meals plus 6 extra por­tions of entree, veg­gie, and fruit plus fruit juice. ********** The Son skipped his bas­ket­ball games today and instead came home right after [...]
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$$: Plastic Ziplock Alternatives

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 28, 2009
One of the best things about two weeks’ worth of school vaca­tion is two weeks’ break from pack­ing lunches. [So shoot me.  If I were a really good mom, I’d say the best part of vaca­tion is being with my kids, right?] Last year I exper­i­mented with using waxed paper sand­wich bags instead of plas­tic ziplock sand­wich bags [...]
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A Small Donation

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 18, 2009
Dona­tion — $5.00 Gee.  I got awfully close to hav­ing a sec­ond no-spend day this week.  But no such luck.  The Hus­band and I, nei­ther one of us in the mood to leave the house, ven­tured out into the cold dark­ness to watch The Daugh­ter per­form a small part is a small Christ­mas play at the school [...]
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College Update

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 14, 2009
So, back when I was in silent mode, The Daugh­ter fin­ished all of her col­lege appli­ca­tions. She applied to a dozen schools. As of tonight she’s heard from 3; all three have accepted her and offered ini­tial aca­d­e­mic schol­ar­ships rang­ing from $12,500 to $20,000 per year. Most of the schools she applied to were [...]
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Double Dipping

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 12, 2009
As you know, I home­schooled our two chil­dren for 12+ years.  Now they both attend a pri­vate high school that’s a good com­mute away from home.  The one part of this arrange­ment that I hate despise dread:  lunches.  I strongly dis­like mak­ing lunches 5 nights a week.  If that makes me a bad mom, so [...]
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