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A (Golden) Day in My Life: Friday, 20 February 2026

Life, Personality Insights, Random, Time Management
Feb 24, 2026
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I haven’t done an A Day in My Life post in almost a year. Oops. Technically, I didn’t set out to record this as an “official” Day in My Life, so timestamps are few and far between, and the pictures are a bit sparse. If you enjoy this sort of thing, I have some extra…

Schooling Without School: Help Me Pull Together a European Learning Plan!!

Today is all about crowd-sourcing. I need your help!

Two weeks from now, WE WILL BE IN EUROPE, which means the kids won’t be in traditional school for literal months! (Though with all the snow…

Parenting, Travel
Feb, 23, 2026
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Happy Things Friday: 20 February

The crunch is on, friends. Two weeks from now is our final full day in Canada. Eeks! This is really happening.

I feel like I’m overloading everyone with with Happy Things/FIGs, so I’ll try…

More Frugal Things…(These Post Titles Aren’t Very Creative)

Life has been hectic this week, and I was coming up empty in terms of post ideas. Writing about frugal things is always a good fall-back plan.

At first, only two things came to…

Frugality
Feb, 19, 2026
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Fresh FIGs: Gratitude Collective Week #2

For anyone joining for the first time—welcome! Here’s a peek at last week’s basket of fresh “FIGs”.

Before I dive into the literal dozens of FIGs we’ve collectively gathered over the past seven days, I…

If It Broke Tomorrow: 10+ Things I’d Replace Immediately

In no particular order, here are ten things I would (want to) replace the very next day if they broke. (I’ve included some links, but none of these items are sponsored or affiliate links.)

(I’m…