Thank you, Blue Apron!
It wasn't as if I'd fallen to the depths of Hungry Man dinners for the last few years but life happened and the priorities fell in a different place. One child had turned, not without significant drama, into two and naptimes fell from two down to rare and cherished. Five years on a single income did not engender in me the thrifty spirit of many a mommy blogger. I didn't want to blog about the meal I made with only $3.75 worth of ingredients, not because I couldn't but because being thrifty isn't something I find particularly exciting, unless it is airfare. In August of this last year, I went back to work teaching full-time, after subbing for two years at the school I used to teach at. I had always hoped to go back when Rylynn, my youngest was in kindergarten but made the plunge a year early when a job opened and the cards fell into place. This year was incredibly busy. I very cockily assumed I could get my ESOL certification while getting used