family

Simple Parenting

April 27, 2012

A few days ago, I got an email from a reader named Katie who had this to say: I was wondering if you would be interested in a post for us with kids or soon to be kids as in my case.  I am currently 32 weeks pregnant and agree with a lot of things [...]

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Simplify Your Family Life e-Book Sale – $29 for $375 Worth of eBooks!

April 16, 2012

Every once in a while, numerous authors band together to offer a large collection of e-books at a steeply discounted price.  Today marks the start of an awesome new e-book sale put together by Corey from Simple Marriage and Mandy from Life Your Way.  It’s a collection of 38 e-books covering all sorts of family-related [...]

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Fun With Ice

February 27, 2012

I got inspired this weekend by Regina of Mommy’s Making A Mess (lots of good ideas over there!).  So our son and I whipped up some colored water and made our own ice blocks.  I don’t have any food coloring, so we thought about what we could use instead.  I had a beet in the [...]

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Saying No – So That You Can Say Yes To What Matters

January 10, 2012

I’m a people pleaser.  Always have been, probably always will be.  I want to make people around me happy, and that means that saying no is not my strong suit.  If people ask me to do something or go somewhere or help them with something, I usually say yes.  That’s fine most of the time, [...]

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Earning An Extra $500 A Month As A Stay At Home Parent

September 23, 2011

When I asked for reader feedback on what you wanted me to write about, I got this comment from Kaytee: Any tips on being a basically SAHP (my husband will be a SAHD once our baby is born) but also earning a little income on the side? To have a reasonable chance of surviving on [...]

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Downsizing My Craft Supplies

August 11, 2011

Ten years ago, my sister-in-law got me hooked on scrapbooking.  I started out with a scrapbook full of my pictures from the time I spent living in Africa, and then moved on to scrapping our daily lives.  I did several albums over the years, and always enjoyed working on them.  Then we had our son, [...]

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Settling Into Life With Two Boys

April 19, 2011

Thanks for all the congratulations and well-wishes on the birth of our second little guy!  We’re doing great.  We’re settling into life with two boys, and so far, it’s awesome.  As far as frugality goes, we’re keeping on with our usual path.  One nice thing about having two boys is that we have boat loads [...]

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Simplify Your Family Life – Awesome E-Book Sale

March 21, 2011

We finished transforming our backyard shed into an office today!  And yes, pictures will be coming soon.  We still have to paint the exterior and put a porch on it (because of course you can’t have a backyard shed/office without a cute little porch!) but the inside is finished.  One giant project that can now [...]

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Christmas Our Way

December 20, 2010

We’ve already opened all of our Christmas presents.  Yep, we march to our own drum around here.  We have gradually simplified Christmas over the years, and eliminated nearly all of the gift exchanging we used to do.  My husband and I long ago stopped giving each other material gifts (for any event, including birthdays and [...]

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Non-Extreme Minimalism

November 24, 2010

This post from Minimalist Mom really resonated with me today.  It perfectly describes my kind of minimalism, and I agree with Rachel that it’s much more likely to be embraced by a lot of people than extreme minimalism.  I have no desire to live out of a backpack or move somewhere new every few months. [...]

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