{"id":195,"date":"2010-09-08T11:16:49","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T18:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapparenting.com\/?page_id=195"},"modified":"2010-10-13T08:19:16","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T15:19:16","slug":"our-family","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapparenting.com\/?page_id=195","title":{"rendered":"Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cheapparenting.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/fam-pic2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-203\" title=\"fam pic2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cheapparenting.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/fam-pic2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"654\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cheapparenting.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/fam-pic2.jpg 654w, https:\/\/www.cheapparenting.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/fam-pic2-272x300.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jason and I grew up in the same tiny town, but never met till fall of 2005. I was having a bad day so I went to our local &#8220;hang out&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewGroundsCafe\">New Grounds Cafe<\/a>. Where Jason was volunteering. He tried to cheer me up, but I was apparently quite rude to him. Being the wonderfully stubborn man that he is, he didn&#8217;t give up and by September 2007 we were married!<\/p>\n<p>We moved to Wisconsin, and back again. Got an insanely silly dog named Jasper and have 2 beautiful children (Alexander and Kalea).\u00c2\u00a0 Jason now helps manage that awesome little <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newgroundscafe.org\">Cafe<\/a>, I am a part time Administrative Assistant [fancy name for Secretary ;-)] we both volunteer at our church and spend lots of time as a family.\u00c2\u00a0 We like to pack it all in!\u00c2\u00a0 We tend to live a fairly &#8220;green&#8221; lifestyle. 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