Stale mac ‘n cheese

Sometime over the last few months, I seem to have lost my ability to come up with interesting, nutritious meals for my family. I spend plenty of money at Walmart every week, yet buy the same things over and over again- orange juice, cereal, bread (I get the milk and eggs at Sam’s– it’s cheaper [...]

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Family vacation vs. air conditioning

My dreams of a family-bonding vacation to Yellowstone National Park this summer have been completely dashed by several harsh realities. First off, I knew things weren’t going in my favor when I couldn’t find any hotels in or near the park and airfare was ridiculously expensive as far back as last spring. Then my husband and kids [...]

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Summer vacation plans cancelled?

We got our son’s all-star baseball schedule tonight. When the coach asked the parents what their vacation plans were, nobody said anything until I spoke up. We were planning a family vacation in mid-July, the first real vacation we’ve had in 4-5 years. Now my husband is afraid to miss an all-star tournament that week, [...]

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Family vacation

A few weekends ago, I tried to use the Internet to begin planning our family vacation. Most years we don’t go anywhere for vacation because the kids have always played baseball and softball. But this year we decided to see if I had enough frequent flier miles to purchase tickets so we could fly out west. I [...]

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