I’m going to be completely honest: Justin and I need time alone each day without interruption from our children. It’s not that we don’t enjoy having my girls around, quite the opposite in fact, but sometimes we need to have a conversation that little ears don’t participate in. Something Had
Flossie McCowald was a teacher before becoming mama to Kimmie and Essie. A country girl who married a city boy, she and her family now live in Suburbia, U.S.A. When not schlepping her girls to Scouts, Code Club, swim lessons, or church choir, she enjoys bicycling, cooking, crocheting, and volunteering.
Our kids have many expectations, from what they are going to have for breakfast to what their school days and vacations will look like. The problem with expectations, though, is that they can be disappointing when they don’t meet up with what’s pictured in one’s mind […]
Teaching your children the value of money can be difficult, but it is one of the most important lessons you can teach them. So where do you start? Well to me, teaching my children the value of money goes hand in hand with […]
We all have expectations, for ourselves, our families, our friends, and our futures, to name a few. When it comes to the expectations our kids have for themselves, their friends, and their futures, it’s often a topic that is overlooked. As we enter another back-to-school season, I’d like to encourage
I don’t know about you, but every year the start of school and the need for school supplies seems to catch me off guard. With the start of our new budget at the beginning of the year, however, I set aside a small amount of money each month in anticipation
I really hated the night before the first day of school. Each year, from kindergarten through 12th grade, I’d lie awake, sick to my stomach, wondering what the new classroom would look like if I would have any friends, what the new routine would be, and whether I would like
It’s graduation season, meaning another class of students will walk across the podium, receive their diploma in front of beaming parents and grandparents, and will walk out of that school and enter the adult world. It’s exciting and nerve-wracking at the same time […]
Bullet journals are all the rage right now and I have to admit, I had no idea what they were until a friend mentioned it was her New Year’s Resolution to start one. After a bit of research, I found out that I’ve spent a lot of years doing my
After nearly four months of “extreme budgeting,” I came to the realization that our budget has to have a miscellaneous category with a certain amount of money in it, for the sole purpose of flexibility for additional, unbudgeted expenses. Of course, our goal […]