Spit-up On My Shoulder

If you haven’t ever surfed over to Freecycle, I highly recommend you give it a look. It’s a site where you can give and get stuff for free in your town.
We recently gave away some cello instrument accessories (my daughter moved from cello to bass this summer) and also one of our [...]

I love the magazine American Baby, but, like with many magazines, I’m often shocked by the prices on the clothes they feature. One picture in the August 2008 issue showed an adorable girl I would guess is around 14 months old. She’s wearing a top and skirt and cute socks. The cost [...]

by Michelle Kennedy Hogan
8. A “Diaper” Bag – If you must have all the pockets and little goodies, go ahead. But if you have a tote bag in the closet (LL Bean boat totes work great! Of course, you’ll want to find them at a yard sale.) from the library or anywhere else, then just [...]

I love finding family activities that don’t strain my pocketbook. To make my job easier, there’s a great new resource. Kids Free Guide is a national directory of restaurants, hotels, ski resorts, airlines, and museums with FREE offerings for kids.
The site is searchable by city or zip code, so you [...]

Ever since I became a mother, I’ve struggled with keeping the house clean and not letting chores overwhelm me throughout the day. A few weeks ago the “chore issue” came to a head again as I felt I was doing WAY more than anyone else in the house.
Then I read an article in The [...]

I’ve been taking a fascinating and eye-opening online class. The best part–it’s free! The class is Take Control of Your Career and Your Life by Marcus Buckingham and it’s through the Oprah website.
Marcus guides you through discovering your strengths and weaknesses. Once your know what they are, the goal is to build [...]

I love this list from Rick and Jan Hanson’s website, Nurture Mom, of ways dads can help mom out. Feel free to forward it to the dads in your life!
Top Ten list (in no particular order) of What Dad Can Do For Mom addressed to the father. Hopefully some of these suggestions will [...]

Did you hear about this? Until 7 p.m. Chicago time today you can download Suze Orman’s 274-page book Women and Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny for free as a pdf file. I just did it and it took 5 seconds to download. I did need to download Firefox first [...]

A recent study found that married women do about one less hour of housework per week for every $7,500 they earn as full-time workers outside the home, regardless of the husband’s income.
I found the study’s conclusions interesting, but was surprised about the following comments from women in the article:
“It’s not about the paycheck for [...]

Thank you once again to my buddies, Rick and Jan Hanson, co-authors of Mother Nurture, for letting me share tips from their newsletter.
Have you found that you and your partner fight more since becoming parents? Join the club! Exhaustion, the stress of being on-call 24 hours a day, teething, colds, [...]