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		<title>Asa&#8217;s First Birthday &#8211; How to save money on a kid&#8217;s birthday party.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Goes to show how on top of things I am.  Asa celebrated his first birthday on June 5, 2009.  Turning one is quite a milestone in my book and I knew I wanted to commemorate the occasion with a party fit for a one year old (and his friends since he wouldn&#8217;t remember any of it). [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shannonqualls.com/2010/02/22/asas-first-birthday-how-to-save-money-on-a-kids-birthday-party/</link>
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		<title>Invitations &#8211; Things to think about when doing invitations for a party.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So what kind of invites do you want to send out?  It really depends on the feel of the party.  I&#8217;m always a big fan of using e-vite (being green!), but I do have to say, there is something about receiving an invitation in person or in the mail that is always a joy.
There is so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shannonqualls.com/2010/02/19/invitations/</link>
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		<title>Who to invite? &#8211; How many people should I plan for my party?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for the delay in updates.  I let time get away from me but I am back now.
Making a guest list is always a dilema for me.  I am a naturally outgoing person and enjoy having people over.  I like to invite anyone and everyone to parties, but believe me, that can be an expensive habit. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shannonqualls.com/2010/02/17/who-to-invite-how-many-people-should-i-plan-for-my-party/</link>
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		<title>Counting the Cost &#8211; How to budget for a party?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After you&#8217;ve decided on a reason to throw a party, you have to decide on *dun, dun, dun- a budget.  The dreaded &#8216;B&#8217; word.  While budgets are the ban of some peoples existence, they can be your greatest tool and asset and they are ESSENTIAL to having a great party.  Why are they ESSENTIAL?  Because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shannonqualls.com/2010/02/01/counting-the-cost-how-to-budget-for-a-party/</link>
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		<title>So you want to throw a party&#8230; &#8211; Tips for planning any party.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love throwing parties.  Big, little, in between.  They are a lot of fun.  I love getting to serve my family and friends and I love getting to try new ideas.  But to throw a party, you have to have a reason.  Birthdays and holidays are the usual suspects, but you can also just want [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shannonqualls.com/2010/01/27/so-you-want-to-throw-a-party-tips-for-planning-any-party/</link>
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		<title>2010- A New Year, A New Commitment</title>
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Wow.  2009 was amazing.  It was crazy but beautiful.  Asa celebrated his first birthday, Greg and I celebrated our 5 year anniversary, and we enjoyed every trial and joy along the way.  We bought our first house in December of &#8216;08 (missing the tax credit by 20 days! Uggg!), renovated it throughout 2009, and opened [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shannonqualls.com/2010/01/25/2010-a-new-year-a-new-commitment/</link>
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		<title>Asa is 6 months old!</title>
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		<link>http://shannonqualls.com/2008/12/06/asa-is-6-months-old/</link>
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		<title>Swaptree</title>
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Recently I got an e-mail from a friend of mine that said, &#8220;I thought you might like this&#8221;.  Typically I don&#8217;t pay attention to these e-mails, but something made me go look.  What did I find?  Paradise. (Well, not really).  But what I found was really cool.
Swaptree.com is a web-site that allows members to post [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shannonqualls.com/2008/11/09/swaptree/</link>
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		<title>Gearing up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since I haven&#8217;t really kept up my commitment to writing one new post a week, I figured I would do a recap of the last few weeks because they have been super busy.  My apologies and I will try and be better in the future.

I finished work on April 30 and am now just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shannonqualls.com/2008/05/12/gearing-up/</link>
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		<title>Priceless</title>
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Greg stole my blog idea for Murphy and God fighting, so I decided to write it anyway but in a different way.
Last month we had over $1900 dollars of expected/unexpected expenses come up.  We thought that we could budget some of it in (and did) but some of it was just unforeseen expenses.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shannonqualls.com/2008/04/08/priceless/</link>
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