For those of you not on Facebook, I posted this today: I don’t usually do TBT photos. But I wanted to today… This is Number 3’s preschool picture from when he was four years old. It was taken almost exactly 5 years ago. Number 3 hardly spoke at all that year at school. He was […]
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Moving toward simple.
We backed off on the TV watching sometime last year. For a long time, I was really good about no TV in the morning and on school nights. Canceling the cable made it a little bit easier. Then I got my iPad and then eventually Number 3 and 4 got Kindles. We still had Netflix, […]
Time to simplify.
Much like when I wrote my anti-Elf on the Shelf post, when I posted today’s anti-leprechaun post that was written a couple years ago, I annoyed a few people. And maybe all you pro-trappers are right. Maybe I’m a killjoy. Maybe I’m a (Mc)Scrooge. Maybe I’m cranky tonight. I am a little bit. I’ve had […]
I’ve been focusing on the wrong stuff.
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking. About what makes me happy. If you’ve been around here for a while, you know that the last few years were tough financially. And I’ve been thinking that having lots of money might make me happier. And then I went to a fancy and expensive lunch last week and […]
Want to try couponing but don’t know where the heck to start? Start here. Couponing 101.
If you want to save money on your grocery bill each week and have wanted to try using coupons but are overwhelmed and don’t know what to do first, you are in luck. I am going to help you. I am not an extreme couponer. I do not buy anything and everything just for the […]
Today’s post is brought to you by the Number 3. And me.
I think it is easy for us moms to beat ourselves up. To be critical of ourselves and to focus on all the places we think we have messed up. To point out our flaws and our mistakes and our failures. We do it with our children. We do it with our bodies. We do […]