I was the first person in my family to graduate from college. And once I did that, I went right on to grad school and got my masters degree in elementary ed. I have spent lots of time talking to the kids about college. Discussing how grades are important if you even want to have […]
Parenting
Having Trouble Getting Your Kids To Help Out Around The House? Try This.
If you are anything like me, you have spent all day cleaning your house only to turn around and see your kids mess it up 5 minutes later. Or you have spent a half hour searching for a lost shoe for one of your kids. For the last time. You have yelled and threatened your […]
Why I Won’t Give My Kids An Allowance
Yesterday I wrote this post about how I have told my kids they have to wait 30 days before spending any of the money they happen to receive for their birthdays. And I’ve been doing a lot of thinking over the past couple days. I want to do a better job about teaching my kids […]
Are We Focusing On What Really Matters?
Last week I had a little birthday party for Number 5. Actually, I didn’t have much to do with it. Number 4 and 5 planned it together. Then on Tuesday I had a party for Number 3. It was his tenth birthday, and seeing as it was the first double digit birthday, I told him he […]
Moving toward simple. In with the new means out with the old.
Our financial situation, although very stressful and completely exhausting, is turning out to be a blessing. For me, anyway. Because it has forced me to prioritize. And in prioritizing, I have had to do some purging. Purging of habits and purging of actual stuff. Because I am learning that in order to get out of […]
I am grateful for falling on hard times.
Every morning the first thing I do after I get my coffee and come up into the office is write down three things I am grateful for in my journal. And tonight I am grateful for our shitty financial situation. Because today Number 3 played in a little music festival at a very small amusement […]