Living Well on Less — Simply Frugal. Simply Healthy. Simply Happy.

Because I need one more place to post things on the Internets

January 5, 2012

Since I launched this blog in August 2008, my interests have changed and grown. Because I love this here blog, I’ve just kept expanding its content to fit whatever I’m interested in at the moment. What started as a money blog has now become a money blog, a lifestyle blog, and a mommy blog all [...]

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Resolutions for 2012

January 1, 2012

My standard resolution for, oh, 10 years or so has been “eat healthier and lose weight.” So far I’ve only stuck with that resolution for 1 out of 10 years. Pfft. I suck. I’m not giving up on that resolution. Lord knows I have more weight than ever to lose this year. But starting last [...]

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Why my failed 365 Project was really a success

December 28, 2011

Last year aside from my standing resolution to eat healthier and lose weight (pfft), I resolved to take at least one photo every day. This is known as the 365 Project, and people all over the Internetz and Flickr participate in it every year. My motivation lasted longer than pretty much any other resolution I’ve [...]

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Happy holidays!

December 22, 2011

I didn’t mean to break for the holidays so soon, but I’ve been rushing around like a mad woman this week with last-minute Christmas preparations, and I just realized I haven’t had a chance to post at all. Doh. I suppose now is as good a time as any to take an impromptu holiday break. [...]

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Fun holiday tradition: 12 days of Christmas

December 14, 2011

When I was a kid, I always looked forward to a fun tradition. For the twelve days leading up to Christmas, my mom would wrap small gifts for my sisters and me. Every day before school, there were gifts on the kitchen table for us to open. The gifts started out extremely small — a [...]

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Building a professional wardrobe on a budget

December 13, 2011

My exciting new teaching job starts in January (yay!). There’s a business-casual dress code, and unfortunately, all of the clothing I wore in my previous life as a professional was also worn in my previous life as a thinner woman who never had a baby (not yay). That means I’m in the market for an [...]

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Easy weeknight roasted chicken and potatoes

December 7, 2011

Most people think of roasted chicken as a fancy Sunday dinner. The truth is, it’s so simple that you can easily make it on a busy weeknight. The price averages 89 cents a pound at my grocery store, which makes it a pretty frugal meal, too, since we always have leftover dark meat to use [...]

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Homegrown dried herbs

December 5, 2011

My first garden was sort of hit or miss. The herbs grew beautifully, and I harvested quite a few cucumbers before the plant succumbed to wilt. The red peppers were too shaded by the gigantic tomato plant to ever do much of anything. And that tomato plant? Pfft. It grew probably about 20 GIANT tomatoes [...]

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One year

November 30, 2011

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Twelve months

November 30, 2011

Judah is a WHOLE YEAR old. Bonkers. He’s working on walking, but his balance still isn’t so good. He’ll take a step or two on his own, and then he plops himself back down onto his butt. He prefers crawling, but he seems to get more interested in the idea of walking on two feet [...]

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