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Whether you want to stop living paycheck to paycheck, save up money to buy a home, or simply want to have a little bit more “fun money,” paying off debt is an essential step in securing your financial future. I am by no means a financial planner or coach, but …

A quick introduction: I’m married, I have a full-time job, I work from home on days that I’m not frantically traveling across the country, and I have two kids, ages 2 and 5. From the outside, we are living the American Dream. We have a cat, a dog (AND they like …

  My biggest and maybe most selfish reason for minimalism can be summed up in two simple words: less mess! As a stay-at-home mom of two young children, it feels as if the messes never end. Even when my kids “help,” clean up it is a whole lot of work. …

Last Wednesday was a usual crazy-midweek-mommy day filled with hair brushing revolts, toothpaste marks on all the towels, and a missing roly poly in the kitchen.  But that evening we had our cousins bringing us dinner and we had planned for a little grown up time.  My husband and I …

Unless you’ve been living in a social media bubble for the past week, you’ve heard about Harambe the gorilla. For all those bubble dwellers, let me fill you in.  Harambe was a 17-year-old male silverback gorilla who lived at the Cincinnati Zoo. Born in captivity, he was a beloved member …

At 34 weeks pregnant I still have a while (6-ish weeks, 1.5 months…) before my third postpartum experience, but being that the last one left MUCH to be desired, it seems that this go-around might warrant a bit more initiative on my part. Initiative in the form of open and …

Most mornings for me are a blur and I’m just happy to get through the work week. It’s the little things we celebrate in our home.  No matter how prepared I am, I am never prepared enough for my toddler’s hurricane of emotions. YAY for being a Mommy! I’m finding that …

Motherhood does strange things to you.  Like giving you almost superhuman powers when it comes to smelling your baby’s poop in a room full of babies. It also does things to other people – people you may or may not know – it somehow makes them believe that they have …

As a mom of three children under the age of 5, things can get a little hectic (read: it’s usually total and utter chaos at all moments of everyday).  Despite the fact that it appears as though nothing is getting done, my brain is usually moving at warp speed, trying …

If you’ve been under a rock for the past couple of years, you may be unaware of a little app known as Timehop. Well, let me introduce you to your very own social media time machine. Timehop pulls up posts you wrote on this day 1, 2, 3, etc. years …