Is anyone else feeling cooped up? Are you trying to work from home and can't find your mojo? It's a struggle to keep focused in my home, add in a full house these days and it seems near impossible. So on the small doses of time I have been getting to work on my busines...

My house is a mess, and that's just going to have to be OK for the next few weeks. I have little activity stations set up throughout the house and my son burned through all of them in an hour and a half. This is a lesson for me in patience and accepting the situation.

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This weekend we had a whole bunch of snow and I was feeling like nesting around our home. Although we have some longer term plans for bigger projects, I created a list of projects we could do in the meantime to satisfy my nesting urges. A quick stop to a thrift shop an...

Is it me, or have you noticed that the holiday marketing out there heavily implies that we need to basically renovate our homes to be so-called 'ready' for the holidays? I just heard an ad on the radio letting me know that I can borrow up to $35,000 from them this seas...

 The other day as I was penciling in social event after social event into our family calendar and I was suddenly hit with how much all of these things could potentially cost. To add to that, we need a few things for the home, add some extra curricular activities for th...

 At some point birthday parties for our kiddos seem to have gone from a once or twice in a lifetime thing, to a big, overpriced annual extravaganza. Families are shifting buckets of money towards the perfect venue, cake, loot bags and so on. What if a family has multip...

So you've gotten married, bought a house and are having children, but did your finances get updated along the way? Or do you and your spouse keep throwing money at a joint account and wonder why your debt balances are creeping up? If this sounds familiar I have news fo...

Our culture seems to hold home ownership as the highest standard of achievement, let me tell you how much this upsets me and why. How many times I've heard "Why pay someone else's mortgage when you can pay your own?". People caught making these statements have either l...

I watched a presentation by Lynne Twist the other day and boy did she hit the nail on the head, she said that we live in a deficit culture. What this means is that we live in a culture of 'not enough', for example how often have you either told yourself or overheard; I...

I get it, we all want to be healthy! We want the best for our families, including putting wholesome food on the table free from pesticides, antibiotics, GMO's, or the million other things out there that will reduce our quality of life.  However, their still seems to be...