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    • How to Determine When You have Enough Stuff.
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    • Or Do Without.
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  • Saving Money
    • My Cleaning & Meal Planning Routines.
    • How and Why We Budget.
    • Doing a Buy Nothing Month.
    • Choosing between Convenience and Values.
    • Frugal Tips
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    • All posts about frugality & saving money
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    • Gabe's Birth Story
    • Theo's Birth Story
    • Everything You Need to Know about Babywearing.
    • Sleep Training Success without (Many) Tears.
    • On Careers and Ladders and Motherhood.
    • Answering Questions: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood
    • Anxiety, Committment, and Childbirth, Oh My!
    • All posts about motherhood & parenting
  • Career & Business
    • Tools I Love for Administrative Tasks & How I Use Them.
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    • My Freelance-aversary & Some Thoughts on Making Your Life What You Want.
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    • Why I Use the Genesis Framework.
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    • How Does She Do It All? She Doesn't.
    • Working Mama // Figuring Out Child Care.
    • Reader Question: Discerning A Career Path.
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    • Traveling with a Babe.
    • Costa Rica and Puerto Rico Visit, Part 1 | Lazing about at a resort
    • Puerto Rico, Part 2 | Eating our Way Through Old San Juan
    • Where to Stay & What to Eat in Puerto Rico. (Part One)
    • What to Do & See in Puerto Rico. (Part Two)
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April Update + May Intentions.

Filed Under: Personal & Life Updates 11 Comments

[April Update] Clean out the ever-loving car. Done and, more importantly, it’s stayed clean. Hallelujah. Read a fiction book. I read both Sharp Objects and Daddy’s Little Girl, mostly for nostalgia sake, since when I was in high school I read every Mary Higgins Clark book I could get my hands on. The books were incrediblyRead the whole post >>

May 6, 2013 · Tagged With: monthly goals 11 Comments

Five Things // On Social Media, Losing Weight, and Other Nonsense.

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Hooray for spring! 1. I am three days (really? only three days!?) into this no Twitter/Instagram/Facebook thing and it already feels quieter. Over the last year, I have drastically reduced how much time I spend on social media thanks to Hootsuite and lists, but it still became a compulsion to check those sites mindlessly. IRead the whole post >>

May 3, 2013 · Tagged With: miscarriage & pregnancy loss, quick takes, social media 12 Comments

Good Things.

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The cloud is lifting. Slowly. And I’m sure there will be some more dips in the roller coaster eventually, but for now, I’m counting my blessings. And there are so, so many. I’ve been showered with love. The outpouring of supportive, wonderful comments from YOU.  I’ve gotten care packages and cards and I am buriedRead the whole post >>

April 30, 2013 · Tagged With: miscarriage & pregnancy loss 11 Comments

A Little Raw.

Filed Under: Personal & Life Updates 42 Comments

So, I want to try and write about it, but at the same time, I want to just go through it alone so no one knows how I weak I am. How hard this is. But I have found it incredibly helpful and therapeutic to read about others’ experiences (like Jonna, Michelle, and Kathleen), so I here IRead the whole post >>

April 25, 2013 · Tagged With: miscarriage & pregnancy loss 42 Comments

Empty.

Filed Under: Personal & Life Updates 111 Comments

I found out last Monday that my 8.5 week old pregnancy was not viable. The ultrasound tech was silent as she performed the ultrasound. I lay in dark silence, knowing that it wasn’t good. The sac measured 10 days behind. I was sure of when I ovulated. I waited 25 minutes in an empty examRead the whole post >>

April 19, 2013 · Tagged With: miscarriage & pregnancy loss 111 Comments

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Hey, I'm Ashley & this is my blog

web designer · vegetarian · coffee addict · obsessed with goal-setting · imperfect mother · wife to an academic · wannabe minimalist

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Saving Money & Living Frugally

Doing a Buy Nothing Month.

Every so often, my eating junk food gets a little out of control and do a little juice cleanse. To help reset my body’s ideas of … [Read More...]

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Simple Living & Minimalism

Long Distance Moving and Decluttering – A Few Tips.

We're in the midst of a long distance move to Massachusetts this month (in the nomadic portion of our move - we moved out of our … [Read More...]

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Green Living & Sustainability

Choosing between Convenience and Values.

A reader asks: How do you decide when to focus your energy on better choices versus choosing convenience? I think it can be so … [Read More...]

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Motherhood & Parenting

The Story of Eleanor.

(Warning, this post will contain mentions of bodily fluid) How Eleanor Came to Be. I want to write this all down while I still … [Read More...]

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Career & Business

A New Leaf. Little Leaf.

(Yes, I am a dork.) Your website should be like an extra employee. Who works non stop 24/7. I recently overhauled my site … [Read More...]

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Recipes

Recipe: Curried Greens and Chickpeas

Recipe: Vegetarian Ramen.

Recipe: Sweet and Sour Tempeh with Pineapple and Cashews.

Recipe: Tofu Lettuce Wraps.

Recipe: Bistro Broccoli Chowder

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