Dream Dinners – the Final Act

This week we tried the last two dinners from our stash. Schlepping kids to and from soccer practice and football practice makes it hard to fix dinner and eat together but we used the dream dinners this week to divide and conquer. Act 5 – Aztec Steaks with Black Bean Rice The steaks get rubbed…

Flight 93 Memorial Opening Sept 10th

10 years after Flight 93 left Newark, New Jersey  bound for San Francisco and crashed into a remote field in western Pennsylvania, the National Park Service is opening a memorial to those who died in their effort to thwart terrorists in their goal of crashing into the capital building. In 2007, as we began our…

Digging Out of Junkmail Hell

If you aren’t careful, junk mail can take over your life. In fact, Greg’s mom’s house was almost buried in it – to the point that when he had to clean it out, he hauled over 14 tons, yes, you read that right, 14 tons of junk mail to the recyclery. Hoarder’s even called us, yes…

Help, I’ve Fallen into Junkmail Hell and Can’t Get Up

What are you supposed do when you’ve fallen into Junkmail Hell and can’t get up? We recently moved Greg’s mom to a care facility closer to us and now her mail is coming to us – either forwarded (mostly billing statements and utilities and others who are slower to update a mailing address through a…