March 2010

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11 Tips For Eating Healthy On a Budget

by Lisa

I completely resonate with the message to eat more fresh fruits and vegetables and to buy organic whenever possible.  When I buy meat for my family and myself I now choose grass fed, ethically treated meat and organic, free range poultry. But what is often missing from this message are ways to make those purchases [...]

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4 Great Reasons to Wake Up Early

by Tsh

Since our life has been crazy the past few months, I haven’t had much of a routine.  But starting this week, our family is getting back at it.  There’s still a lot to do as we move in to our home, but we’re ready to get back to normal life, with some form of routine, [...]

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Has This World Been So Kind?

by Tsh

This weekend I’m over at (in)courage, sharing a bit more personally about our family’s abrupt and unexpected temporary move back to the U.S.  From the post: “This current move of ours is temporary.  We are taking one year to deal with some family medical issues, and in the meantime, have our third baby and pray [...]

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The Importance of Family Rituals

by Tsh

With all our cross-cultural moving and family upheaval we’ve had this past month, this post’s topic has really been on my mind lately. It was first published on April 10, 2009 — hopefully you can appreciate it all over again. Every Friday, no matter how hectic or stressful the week has been, my husband and [...]

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An Essential Checklist for Moving in to a New Home

by Tsh

Cardboard, bubble wrap, and newspaper. That’s what I’ve been up to my eyeballs in this past week as we’ve slowly been moving in to our new-yet-temporary home. It feels really good to finally be using some of our own stuff again instead of squatting at other people’s homes — but it doesn’t make moving any [...]

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Houses Have Windows, Homes Have Stories

by Emily

My 5-year-old daughter is obsessed with words. She spends her days at school learning sounds of words, what words mean, how to spell words and how to read words. So, when I said to my husband the other day, “We’ve really made this house a home, haven’t we?”, she quickly replied “House and home are [...]

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Relinquish Your Power on the Things that don’t Matter

by Tsh

This post was first published on February 2, 2009. I don’t share many parenting tips here, mostly because I don’t have a lot. I’ll venture into pantry organization or budgeting — but raising up the next generation? Now that’s territory in which I feel rather unqualified to write. That said — I do have a [...]

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