Five days into October (sorry for the delay) and already, the freezer meals I started putting by in August and September are SAVING MY BUTT. Sidebar for a second here: It feels weirdly cool to sit in a meeting where
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At the start of a new school year, everything is different, but very much the same. We’re facing another September full of possibilities. What will the year bring? What opportunities will fall into place, what activities will the boys explore,
Yeah, I know, it’s already well into July, so what am I doing posting the meal plan NOW? Well, I’ve been away for a bit. I had a business trip to tackle, two boys to ferry to my parents’ house
There’s a little rush of relief I feel every year around this time. It’s not always right at the end of May or beginning of June, because God knows that’s no easy time for families with kids — as I
Recently, I had a complete privileged-white-lady moment when my beloved local Whole Foods delivery team stopped their grocery delivery service. (I KNOW, RIGHT? ADULTING IS HAAAARRRRD.) Yes, I know it’s whiny and self-indulgent to be brokenhearted about not getting your
The other day, I got up an hour earlier than usual to make sure that I was appropriately dressed (when you work from home, “appropriately dressed” is a thing you have to sometimes think carefully about, usually on those occasions
I know I’m not the only person out there who feels these days as if it’s hard to know how to keep going. There’s a general aura of fatigue and anxiety in the air everywhere I go. Friends and family
What happened??? Lots of RRG readers have contacted me over the past several months, wanting to know where I’ve been. What’s going on. If I’m all right, if the family’s all right. We are. And thank you. And it’s complicated.
Now that the kids are old enough to give their input for the monthly meal plan, the question “What do you want for dinner?” is inevitably answered this way by at least one of them: “Burgers!” Yeah, my boys are
I’m not even kidding. So much of this meal plan was created like this: Me: *frowns at notebook, tries to drink more coffee to jog mind, contemplates giving up and moving to a desert island with a good long book*