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The day started with a simple idea: I’ll go to Trader Joe’s and Target today. And it ended with the most grocery bags I’ve ever bought in one run. We had so many groceries that we ran out of our cloth grocery bags! It took me 20 min to unpack it all and put it away. It was epic.
We don’t normally eat this much in one week – I promise. As I told the Trader Joe’s checkout guy, who said “how long is this going to last you?” as I was checking out, the groceries were actually because my sister-in-law, her husband and my two adorable nephews are coming to stay with us in a couple days!
It’s our first time hosting anyone at our place – because we finally have a place big enough to have other people stay with us. I’m super excited,…
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