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The Best Vacation to Take With Your Kids
Taking vacation with my children ranks right up there with playing in a pit of cobras or waking a hibernating grizzly bear. I’m with them all the time, why would I want to “get away” WITH them? That doesn’t even make any sense! And then I went on my first cruise. I realized I could…
Family Feud: A Thanksgiving to Remember
So, how weird is it to go from unmarried and already having two families to visit on the holidays, to married with three families to visit on the holidays? For us, it was hell. I don’t often talk about that Thanksgiving because I don’t want to upset anyone, but my recent campaign with NickMom has…
Perfecting the art of Snail Mail by Sending Cards
One of my favorite things growing up was getting a handwritten card or letter from my Mamom so as part of a sponsored post for Collective Bias and their client, I’m talking about the long-lost art of card sending. It was always a surprise to get a sweet handwritten note, and she was the master of…
Braces Made Affordable with a Cheap Wireless Plan
In an effort to get The Nerd’s mouth fixed without changing our lifestyle, and as part of a sponsored post by Collective Bias, I’m checking back in to let you know how we’re affording this costly mouth mayhem by using Walmart Family Mobile to stay connected to our Tween. We recently got the final estimate…
OH Happy Day in Stepparent Adoption
Every once in a while, a day comes along that you’ve waited years for. For me, for The Nerd, today was that day. It was just like any other day when The Nerd got into the mama mobile and asked how my day had been. It had been fine. Just fine. It started with a…
This is NOT a Laughing Matter
OK, so maybe it IS a laughing matter. If we can’t laugh at ourselves, who then can we laugh at? I’m sure we’d find someone to laugh at, but I digress. This is about taking a load off and finding humor in the insane life that I call mine. I don’t normally join blog hops…
Got Tween? Need Cheap Wireless Service.
Do you ever wonder how we made it out of childhood without cell phones? When I was a kid, mobile phones were the size of my entertainment center and could only be used in a car. Only the 1% had mobile phones, and you had to be able to curl 320lbs to pick them…
525,600 Minutes Times 12 & Is Life Insurance Important for the Stay at Home Parent?
So how do you measure a year? How about 12 years? Do you measure in sunsets? love? or with the financial journey you’ve been on? I can’t believe that my baby boy started 7th grade on Monday, or that he is going to be 12 years old in a month. I look back on his…
The Top Five Things You Need For a Road Trip & Didn’t Think of
I am a member of the Collective Bias® Social Fabric® Community. This content has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collective Bias® . and FRAM #cbias #SocialFabric I am sharing this with you because I learned some very valuable lessons on our recent road trip and wanted to spread the…