Category: Parenting
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All Poor People Aren’t On Crack
Tweet Rant Alert. Over the last couple of days I have been running around making sales calls. I put just over 900 miles on my car in less than 48 hours. It’s been a very productive but hectic week. Yesterday I had about 20 minutes in between appointments for lunch so I stopped in the…
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Gift Giving Guide for People without Children
Tweet This post ideally should have been written before the holidays but by next Christmas it’ll be long gone out of my head, so I thought I’d just jot down a few thoughts today. I’m a relatively new parent. My oldest is 5, so I’m sure I broke some if not all of these rules…
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The present that was a teaching opportunity
Tweet Christmas was wonderful this year and it seems that for the first time since the kids were born, I don’t feel like they were overwhelmed with presents. They seem to have gotten just the right amount. Both my boys got shortie wetsuits for the pool because they love the water but the Y gets…
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Duck Bread – Today’s Spontaneous Fun
Tweet This morning, my older son woke up a whole half hour early, by himself and came downstairs in an uncharacteristically perky fashion. As a result, lunches were made, everyone was dressed, fed, and ready to go almost 1/2 hour ahead of schedule. I quickly decided this was an opportunity to have a mini-adventure. I…
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Life Lessons – More than One Way to Learn
Tweet I recently wrote a post on Budgeting the Fun Stuff on Financial Aid and it got me thinking about my children and their upcoming college experience. Because we’re a dual income family, it’s unlikely my children will qualify for financial aid. As a result, I plan on helping my kids with many of their…
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Working Moms Care About Their Kids Too
Tweet I’m the first to admit that I love reading mommy blogs. Since most of the people who do these blogs are SAHM moms, I pretty regularly run across the “I choose to stay at home because I care about my family assumption.” Yup, us working moms dump our kids off with some stranger, put…