How can a backyard garden teach children about investing? While all of the investment lingo can be confusing for even adults, nature can easily make sense of investing. Actually, we all practice investment strategies all the time but just aren’t aware of it. It’s not that hard to understand the basics of investing. Basically, you [...]
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The Anatomy of a Family Portrait
Getting a family portrait taken around here is like trying to pull teeth without anesthesia. Really. It doesn’t matter how much I prep them, how few and far between the requests are, when it comes time to get dressed and pose, everyone melts down. The last family portrait we took was 5 years ago when we took a [...]
CVS Savings, Engine Envy & Testosterone
CVS had Palmolive on sale for 97 cents along with Colgate on sale for $2. My wonderful newspaper man brought us THREE copies of coupons this week, earning a Christmas bonus early in my mind! Dude! SO, with three coupons for .50 cents off the Palmolive, making it .47 cents, as well as three coupons [...]
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Isaac Starts to Read
Wonderful Fall Leaves!
Football Practice in the Dark
Now that the days are getting shorter, it seems that poor Eli is out in the dark with his coaches and fellow players for football practice most every night now. I hate that for them, especially when it’s raining. Strange thing, they love it. The other night, I picked up Eli from practice while it [...]
How the Male Brain Works
Monday, Monday….so Good to Me!
Bereket finishes pattern blocks with success! Today was like any other Monday, rich with the sounds of scanners running, pencils sharpening, DVD’s for school being loaded and oatmeal being complained about. The only difference today was that Meredith was in a hurry to finish her school work so that she could go to work with [...]


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