How to Support a Single Mom

Parenting is difficult. Anyone with kids—or even without them—would tell you this. Parenting as a single, especially of more than one child, is downright exhausting. We see each other struggling regularly, but it’s hard to know how to support one another and it’s...

Magnetic Chalk Board

I’m not quite sure how or why, but for some reason chalk is back in style. You would think that the invention of white boards would bring the screeching chalkboard to it’s rightful place of extinction, but somehow we have decided as a society that those chalkboards...

Are you financially fit?

My husband and I don’t see eye-to-eye on finances. Oh, when it comes to the big picture, we do. He knows that if he unexpectedly comes home with a new Playstation, vehicle, or ATV, he’s in trouble. Similarly, I know that I can’t go on a shopping spree to buy endless...

Eating Green – Part III

    Introducing These Foods If you should decide today to completely eliminate your standard veggie choices and introduce nothing but dark leafy green vegetables, your family is probably going to revolt.  The best way to make healthy changes is...

10 Minute Meals – Part II

Ten-minute Recipes for the Family The following recipe ideas are going to be nutritional, delicious and quick. These are the kinds of recipes that you want to keep on hand for those days when you know you’re not going to have time to take 30 to 40 minutes to prepare...