Being a work at home parent can afford you great flexibility. Your daughter’s class needs a parent chaperone on the field trip? Sure, you can do it, and you don’t even have to have the boss approve your day off. You want to take your toddler to library story hour? No problem. However, this flexibility… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Home and Family
Hey Suze, Telling Mom to Get a Job Won’t Help This Family
Editor’s note…my wife and I dealt with a similar situation to the one Melissa describes below and we ended up becoming a single income family when we realized nearly her entire salary would be going to daycare. I wrote a guest post on Consumerism Commentary where I discussed the issue of whether or not you… Continue Reading
How to Avoid Feeling Isolated and Lonely When Working from Home
Many people dream of a day when they can work for themselves and do that work from home. If you’re a parent who wants to combine both caring for your child and having a career, working from home may seem to be the best of both worlds, even if you do have to juggle finding… Continue Reading
Could You Survive Without a Television? Would You?
We Americans love our televisions. Television programming is not just a way to educate and entertain our youngsters, it also serves as a way for us adults to relax. In most homes, televisions are the focal point of the living room, and in recent years, the bigger the television the better as 42 inch (or… Continue Reading
Do It Yourself or Call in the Pros?
A recent post on Wisebread asked readers what kind of DIY projects they have done in the past and I found the comments intriguing. Everyone has their own line when it comes to deciding whether to tackle a job themselves or call in a professional to get the job done. A project I’d have no… Continue Reading
5 Ways to Work From Home with Young Children
While more and more parents are making the decision to stay home and care for their children while the kids are young, such a decision is not made lightly. Living off one income in today’s economy can be tricky at best, impossible at worst. The stay at home parent can ease the financial strain by… Continue Reading
Top 10 TV Christmas Specials
One of my favorite parts of the holiday season is cuddling up on the couch with my kids and watching our favorite Christmas specials. There’s just something special about watching holiday shows and movies by the light of the Christmas tree. But there’s so many classic Christmas specials to choose from…which should you watch first? Well… Continue Reading
Deep Fried Turkey – The Only Way to Cook Your Bird
Deep Fried Turkey Made Easy Do you want to learn how to make a deep fried turkey that will amaze your family and friends? I’ve been making our Thanksgiving bird like this for the last few years (not this year though, my sister is hosting at her house) and I promise you’ve never tasted anything… Continue Reading
Cleaning Up After Hurricane Sandy
It has been two weeks since Hurricane Sandy made landfall on the Atlantic City Coast and things are finally getting back to normal for my family. We were without power for 12 days and I can’t tell you how good it is to have lights and heat again. We had spent the first 5 nights… Continue Reading
Recovering from Hurricane Sandy
Just wanted to drop a quick post to let everyone know the family is doing ok after Hurricane Sandy. It was a crazy night here in New Jersey with the winds and rain whipping and the kids were pretty scared. Like two-thirds of the state we still have no power and don’t know when it… Continue Reading
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