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Fall is in the air! It isn’t here quite yet, but you can see it in the Halloween decorations lining the shelves, smell it in the pumpkin EVERYTHING coming from local coffee shops, and feel it with those slightly chillier nights. So this weekend I decided I’d better jump on the fall band wagon and get to crafting something orange!

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Check out my latest post! "Big Fun on a Small Budget" -I don’t know about you, but I am always trying to find ways to entertain my kids, to keep them busy enough that they aren’t fighting or grumping around that they are bored.  However, entertainment is expensive! And once school starts, there seem to be less activities that towns offer “on the cheap.” Here are a couple of things that we do with our kids that keep their minds and hands busy and our wallet happy throughout the whole…

I have thrown 25 birthday parties in 9 years. How I have survived I literally cannot fathom. At first they seemed a right of passage, for both myself and my children. I surely deserved to celebrate the accomplishment of getting them through another year alive, and I felt that they should have a big to-do about not accidentally killing themselves. At first, I enjoyed proving myself a decent hostess and cook, I spent hours baking and decorating, we hemorrhaged cash on party favors, decorations…