• My kids
    Parenting

    8 Year Old Reality Check and Challenge

    February 5, 2014 - By 

    My husband and I work for ourselves. Working for yourself takes extreme self discipline and hard work. Sometimes this tends to create workaholic tendencies. When you work for yourself you don’t have a set income you can budget on every month. You have to work when the work is there. And the work tends to come in large waves meaning some months we are extremely busy and overwhelmed and other months not so much. The months we aren’t as busy we tend to keep ourselves busy looking for work and billable time. So in other words no matter what we…

  • My girl
    Parenting

    Co-ed Sleepovers – Yay or Nay?

    February 2, 2014 - By 

    Last night my 8 year old daughter and I were discussing sleepovers. She’s never had a sleepover at a friends house. We’ve kept her sleepovers to just family members. I’m very, very cautious about where my daughter goes and would have to know the parents really, really well before I would even consider letting her go to a sleepover. Well last night while we were discussing sleepovers she threw a big complication into the sleepover idea. She said, “I would love to have a sleepover with *insert boys name here*.” Even though I know her best friends at school are…

  • Parenting - Home Life - recipes - Reviews

    Snow Day with TruMoo

    January 29, 2014 - By 

    Disclosure: I have been compensated for this review. Even though I have been compensated for this review all opinions and real and my own. We are officially snowed in and school is out today. Yesterday I got the call that school was letting out early for the snow so I ran to the store to grab some goodies so we would be ready for our snow day(s). I saw a new chocolate milk, TruMoo Chocolate Marshmallow. The selling point for me was that it could be served hot or cold. What perfect way to warm up after playing in the snow…

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    Parenting - Travel

    Titanic Pigeon Forge New Gallery – Unsinkable Molly Brown

    January 10, 2014 - By 

    Visit the only Permanent Titanic Museum Attraction with your family. Discover why this museum attraction is an exciting ship-shaped classroom filled with history, hands-on experiments, mysteries to solve and fascinating stories about real people and events. Walk the $1 million Grand Staircase. Sit in a lifeboat. Steer the ship. Touch and Iceberg, and more. “Our visit was enjoyed by all from ages 4 to 64…..It (Titanic) is a visit not to be missed.” – Jessica Bookstaff Doppelt I’ve been hearing all about the Titanic Museum in Pigeon Forge and have driven past it many times. I’ve just never had the…

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    Parenting

    School Christmas Parties on a Budget

    December 20, 2013 - By 

    This is my first year a room parent chair. My first major responsibility of the year happened today, the class Christmas party. I’ve gotta say even though I was stressed about it and worried I wouldn’t have enough for the kids to do it went perfectly. And best of all I managed to have the party with very little money out of my pocket (this is mainly thanks to the extraordinary amount of help from the other parents in the class). I was so busy playing with the kids that I’m sad to say I didn’t get a chance to…