How to plan to literally not leave your house for two weeks or more as a family.
How to teach your kids at home even if you have a job.
Whether you have a desk job or are teleworking, here’s how to make teaching your child from home possible.
The case for a colorful life and why age has to be more than numbers
Within the next week I will turn 30. “It’s a milestone” I hear, and one that I take on proudly. But through the comments about time flying by and age just being a number, I feel that something is lacking when we talk about birthdays and age and experience. Maybe the English language just doesn’t […]
9 Ways to quickly and easily build your Emergency Fund
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 […]
The best way to maximize birthday parties near the holiday craze
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 […]
Teach kids how to respond to choking with this life-saving plan
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 […]