How to Prepare for a New School Year on a Small Budget!

It’s frugal Friday again! I know none of us want to think about the fact that the new school year is just around the corner (well, unless your kids are driving you crazy like mine are!) but after the 4th of July, that’s what I start thinking about. I don’t like to fight the crowds […]
1 Great Way to Stop Summer Learning Loss

I participated in an Influencer Activation on behalf of Influence Central for Carson-Dellosa. I reviewed the free content on their website to facilitate my review and a promotional item to thank me for my participation. School’s out and summer is here! Now what? If you’ve read some of my previous posts this year you know […]
How to Fall in Love with the Strong Willed Child

How do you fall in love with the strong willed child? Do you have a child that seems to test every limit you have? Are your nerves so fried by the end of the day that you feel like you couldn’t possibly give any more? Are you struggling to show love to a child that […]
5 Tips for Making Home a Heaven on Earth

If you step into my home on any given day, you will most likely not see perfectly clean floors and walls or even clean children half the time. My home is not a museum, it is a place of learning and growth! Sometimes that growth is not pretty! I dream of a perfectly organized, clean home […]
Getting Kids to Fall Asleep!

I’m lying here in bed. It’s so late, but I can’t fall asleep. So many things going through my head right now. I’m wishing I had done bed time differently tonight with my kids. You see, just because I know how to get them to sleep, doesn’t mean I’m always very good at doing it. […]
9 Ways to Happily Survive on a Small Budget!

7 Ways to Happily Survive on a Small Budget Okay, in the past, I’ve learned a lot about …MONEY! I’ve had plenty of experiences “falling behind” with things like medical bills or unplanned ’emergencies’ like fixing a portion of our roof that was damaged by the stinkin’ swamp cooler. It isn’t easy to get ‘caught up’ on […]
