Celebrating Earth Day

| April 22, 2013 | 4 Comments

Today is Earth Day. Since 1970, April 22 has been set aside to remind us of the importance of taking care of our environment. This year is no exception, and since the date falls on a Monday, it’s very likely that your child will be observing Earth Day at school today. Still, there are some […]

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Hairstyles for Girls

| April 15, 2013 | 6 Comments

Do you have a daughter with long hair? I took my daughter in for a trim the other day, and I was surprised at how thick soft her hair looked after the stylist was done. She tends to have thin hair, and since we live in hot, steamy Florida, we don’t typically use a hairdryer, […]

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Talking to Teens About Credit

| April 14, 2013 | 1 Comment

We are currently in the process of buying our next home, which has been a great learning experience for our children. Before we applied for our new mortgage, I ordered copies of our credit reports, and we were surprised to see an error on my husband’s! Although we have never lived in Arizona, there was […]

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Summer Camp at Home

| April 13, 2013 | 2 Comments

Although summer break is still a couple of months away for most of us, it’s time to start looking into summer camps. Camps run the gamut from programs that take your child for just a few hours to those that take your child for a week or more. Depending on your child’s interests, they can […]

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Baby Names: Choosing the Perfect One for Your Baby

| April 12, 2013 | 10 Comments

When you’re pregnant, you hear a lot of questions. “When are you due?” “Do you know if it’s a boy or a girl?” “Where are you delivering?” Probably one of the most asked, though, is “have you picked out names yet?” Some parents-to-be share their chosen names with the world, and others keep it mum […]

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Spring Festivals With Little Ones

| April 11, 2013 | 5 Comments

Spring is in the air, and spring festivals are popping up all over the place! Spring festivals in many areas are held to celebrate one very important feature of spring: flowers! There are tulip festivals, daffodil festivals, lilac festivals, cherry blossom festivals… and the list goes on, depending on which flowers are in bloom in […]

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Food

Cinco De Mayo Recipes

Cinco de Mayo commemorates the Mexican army’s victory over French invaders in 1862. Today it is celebrated not only in Mexico but in the US as well. We LOVE mexican food (as a matter of fact tacos are on our weekly family menu) and we can’t wait to have our fiesta tonight! Here are some […]

Turkey Advice: How to cook it, gadgets to buy

Our resident TopChef and cooking advisor has some Turkey tips for you this holiday season…… It’s just my husband and I in our household, so I rarely make turkey. Perhaps a turkey breast now and then, but never a whole turkey.  Besides I never needed to.  Thanksgiving was always celebrated at my uncle’s house with […]

Shopping

Things to Buy on Sale in February

With a special holiday involving flowers, chocolate, and hearts coming up soon, you may have been planning to spend your extra money on Valentine’s Day items over the next couple of weeks. If you’re hoping to save money in February, though, those are definitely not the items that will be on sale… at least not […]

Shopping the January Sales

If I asked you when the best time is to stock up on school supplies, you’d say July, right? It’s when all of the big box stores tend to have boxes of crayons for fifty cents or two, 10-packs of markers for a couple of bucks, and those spiral notebooks that get caught on everything […]

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