My husband took Financial Peace University by Dave Ramsey several years before we ever got married. And ten years into our relationship, he sent me to learn the basics of budgeting and escaping debt while he watched our four kids. Since meeting we had accumulated more houses, moved across the country, finished more than one […]
Imagine a world where Disney and education intermingled and teaching children was as magical as the movies with fireworks exploding overhead as we see the sparks light up in our kids’ minds as they learn. Sounds like a fantasy right? It doesn’t have to be! Disney Plus can actually be educational. In fact, it can […]
Our family of six has half of our birthdays in December. And two more within about 6 to 8 weeks of Christmas.That’s a lot of celebrating! But it then causes the age-old question of how to handle birthdays around the holidays, especially if you have as many parties as us. Are you in a similar […]
Imagine that you’re in the middle of cooking dinner and the phone rings. Looking at the screen, you see it’s probably important so you put down the knife on the cutting board next to all those diced onions, wipe the tear from your eye, and say “hello”. In walks your toddler. What do you do? […]
I got a phone call this morning and I was talking about how my 2 and 4 year olds were unintentionally tag-teaming a scream-a-thon. “Why?” was the response. But all I could think is “Anyone’s guess is as good as mine. Because they have big emotions? Because they don’t know how to express themselves? Or […]
My daughter was 4 and sitting in the back seat of our van when we were driving down the road. I heard a distinct sound that I won’t readily forget. In a blur, my husband pulled over as I realized she was crying and choking on a peppermint that I thought she had long finished […]
