Recently, I’ve seen a lot of articles and series on improving something over 30 or so days.  “31 Days to a Better Blog” or “30 Days to a Better Man” are a few that I’ve seen.  And it got me thinking about what I could do for 30 days.  So I decided I would embark on a personal challenge: “30 days to being a better husband.”  The challenge I laid out for myself was this: for 30 days, I was going to serve my wife and try to be a better husband by doing something different and special for her each day.  I chronicled each day of the project in a blog online.  Yesterday was the last day of my experiment, so this morning, I emailed the link for the blog to my wife, to let her know what I’d been secretly working on for the last month.  It was definitely a challenge, but it was also fun and an chance to learn more about my wife, and myself.

So now, I’m going to throw down the gauntlet and challenge you.  Set aside 30 days and come up with something special to do for him or her each day.  And then, if you want, let me know how it goes.

Posted: October 13th, 2009 under Crazy Stuff, Life at the Lansers', Show Notes.
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This weekend my wife is getting together with some of her friends to put together “freezer meals”.  Basically, they plan on assembling, cooking, and freezing a large number of meals for later.  This is cool for two reasons.  First, it means we have meals on hand that are easy for even me to make at home.  Second, since our family is doing it with other families, we can all save money by purchasing supplies in bulk, which is really cool.

Do you have anything you’re doing for this fall, maybe even with other families, to save money?

Posted: September 30th, 2009 under Life at the Lansers', Saving Money, Show Notes.
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Tonight is the night of reckoning at our house.  After Bekah goes to bed, Amy and I will wrestle our money to the ground.  I don’t know if you’ve ever been at a point where you decided that you’re just tired of going with the flow and that it’s time to take control, but that’s where we’re at.  The real problem is, that’s the easy part.  It’s easy to say you’ll take control, but it’s more difficult to not only start the process, but maintain the self-control to keep going.  I can tell you there’s one thing I know: if I don’t bring God into my desires to take control of our finances, I’m going to be right back to frustrated again in a month or so.

Posted: September 29th, 2009 under Life at the Lansers', Show Notes.
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If I’ve sounded tired at all recently, first of all, I’m not as tired as my wife.  And second, there’s a good reason.  Bekah hasn’t been sleeping well lately, and her cries have sounded kind of like pain lately.  After a really restless night last night, Amy decided to bring Bekah in to the doctor under the suspicion she had an ear infection.  Thankfully, she didn’t have that.  Unfortunately, she does have  a bad cold.  We noticed that a few days ago, but apparently the cold is bad enough that it’s caused little blisters in her throat.  This is definitely not one of those firsts you look forward to for your daughter.

Posted: September 10th, 2009 under Life at the Lansers', Show Notes.
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This past weekend and beginning of the week, my wife Amy, daughter Rebekah, dog Starbuck, and I all piled into the car and headed north to visit Amy’s family.  We hung out, relaxed, let Grandpa and Grandma hang out with Bekah while we slept in, and more.  The big outing of the weekend though, was into the Twin Cities to the Como Park Zoo and Conservatory. There, we met up with some friends from the area as well my brother, sister and her husband.  We saw all sorts of animals like lions and tigers (but no bears).  And yet somehow, just like when we visited the Mississippi River Museum, Bekah’s favorite part was the fish.  I swear she could sit and watch the fish swim by (or anything swim by for that matter) for hours and hours.  In fact, as I was thinking about it today, I wonder if I shouldn’t just put an aquarium in her room.  She could just watch that if she woke up in the middle of the night.

Posted: August 26th, 2009 under Life at the Lansers', Show Notes.
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