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24/11/2020 Ashley@Shakenstirredandblended No Comments
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The Hardest Day Of These Corona Times

Let me start this post off by saying, “No, none of us has been diagnosed with COVID19 and neither does anyone even have symptoms.” This is not to be a post where I think my life…

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02/05/201902/05/2019 Ashley@Shakenstirredandblended No Comments
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Menu For Wednesday And Thursday

So, our custody exchange schedule is 2 days on/2 days off, with alternating weekends. Meaning that we have all four kids in the house from Wednesdays after school until Fridays’ school begin and then we either…

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How To Plan Out A Daily Or Weekly Menu On A Budget

Planning menus on a budget is not easy, especially if you have growing kids to feed. This is how I do it so we have money left over at the end of the month to buy other necessities or save money for a trip to show the kids the world. Okay, so the latter is really more of a long-term dream goal, but you get my point LOL.

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12/04/201912/04/2019 Ashley@Shakenstirredandblended No Comments
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Eurocation 2019, Tuesday

On Tuesday of our vacation, we spent the morning riding bicycles into town and shopped for kids’ shoes. Somehow, I ended up with a new pair of shoes, too. Yay me 🙂 Anyway, James’ kids loved…

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09/04/201909/04/2019 Ashley@Shakenstirredandblended No Comments
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Eurocation 2019

So… spring break in Germany. It was most likely the most exhausting trip home I have taken in decades. And, when I still had a corporate job before kids, I did go there quite a bit…

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22/02/201922/02/2019 Ashley@Shakenstirredandblended No Comments
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Why I Can Never Be Sure If My Better Half’s Family Like Me

Preface: Over the course of my “dating career”, I have been in relationships much longer than I probably should have because I really liked his parents, siblings, grandparents, etc. Including my marriage. My Ex-husband is a…

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27/09/201801/10/2018 Ashley@Shakenstirredandblended 2 Comments
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Blending the multilingual family and 5 reasons why I don’t find it easy

This blog post has been long in the making. As we are adjusting to our new life as one happily blended family under one roof, some of our moments are not quite as happy as we…

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04/09/201807/09/2023 Ashley@Shakenstirredandblended No Comments
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THE EVIL STEP-MOTHER and how to stop yourself from becoming one

I have been pondering this post for a week now. And I’m still not exactly sure where to start. Our kids have been in their new schools for three weeks now. They are loving their schools…

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05/07/201810/04/2019 Ashley@Shakenstirredandblended No Comments
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HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!

Happy 4th of July! So for all my good intentions after the last post, I didn’t do anything towards building my blog in the past couple of days. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. The following is…

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02/07/201829/07/2018 Ashley@Shakenstirredandblended No Comments
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5 Things To Do To Get Your Blog Off The Ground

5 Things To Do To Get Your Blog Off The Ground or: What NOT to do when you are trying to get your blog off the ground   1. Stop dreaming about it and start doing…

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