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| When Matt and I are within the kitchen there’s nearly all the time feline supervision. 9/24/2022 |
The quantity staggers me a bit. I imply, know I’m a chatterbox. I really like to inform tales and speak in regards to the
gazillion issues that curiosity me. However nonetheless…
1,500 posts?! That is numerous phrases and photographs, days and years, a lotta life documented right here!
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| Matt out on the again patio with the brown-eyed susans. He was modeling the shirt I made him for his birthday. 9/19/2022 |
Preserving a weblog began out of a want to share vegan recipes and my ardour for
voluntary simplicity with individuals. I’ve all the time liked writing, plus discussing and sharing concepts that I am obsessed with. Running a blog has been that….and a lot extra over the previous 12.5 years.
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| Enjoying croquet with some friends earlier than a Terrapin Flyer live performance downtown. I particularly love how Lacee and Chelsey are hugging within the background. 4/26/2023 |
I believe it’s fairly superb to have such a file of my life. It is a useful reference information/useful resource for myself and even sometimes others. I’m grateful for the sense of group and connection to my household and associates (new and outdated, close to and much, digital and in-person). It’s superior.
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| There’s something fairly calming and delightful about untrodden snow on a sunny day. 3/17/2023 |
Word: I could not start to depend all of the instances that I take advantage of the search bar to search out out when one thing or different occurred. Or to find a photograph to point out somebody or the title of a e book I learn. It’s so helpful for me. Like I can “google” my very own life.
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| Matt sampling fresh-from-the-oven pretzels. And searching mighty happy about it. 9/18/2022 |
It appeared like I ought to do one thing particular for my 1,five hundredth put up.
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| Enjoying Battleship on the again patio subsequent to a riot of flowers. Fairly a distinction to the snowy patio picture, eh?! 9/17/2022 |
So, I am supremely tickled that it coincided with
making the ultimate mortgage cost on our home. Woooohoooooooooo! Matt and I are formally
“weird people.” We personal our dwelling outright and are actually debt free. We did it! I do not imply to sound braggadocious, however I’m so gosh darn happy with us. We set a objective, labored at it constantly, and made it occur. Forward of schedule even!
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| Christmas lights on the fence illuminate the snowy entrance yard. 12/5/2022 |
I can hardly imagine it. It appeared like such a BIG process when we started. I can not say sufficient about Matt’s awesomeness right here. Matt is a superb thought man and he deserves a great deal of accolades for his monetary imaginative and prescient. As a result of he is so good with numbers, he’s our funds grasp. He is the one who took the lead on getting us to this debt-free level, beginning with my paying off my pupil mortgage in 2017. We work on it collectively, after all. None of this might have been potential with out teamwork and being on the identical web page. With a way of issues coming full circle, I will add that simple living can be what made it potential.
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| Matt reducing a Roman-style pizza with scissors as is the custom with pizza al taglio. That was an particularly advantageous pizza–the crust was so chewy and lightweight! 3/26/2023 |
So, hooray! Proudly owning our own residence earlier than I flip 40. And hooray! 1,500 printed weblog posts! Life can certain be a curler coaster, however I am grateful for the experience.
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| My beloved Yellow Tree designating the northwest nook of our property. 10/13/2022 |
