I’m going to start out by saying that I am historically not good with money. I’ve always had trouble keeping track of payments and looking at my finances with both eyes open, instead of the normal cringing I do. Given my druthers, I would much prefer to stick my head in the sand and pretend someone else is handling my finances, despite that being nowhere near the truth. In fact, when I hit rock bottom, I wasn’t even opening my monthly account statements or credit card bills. I took a wild guess …
How to Make Halloween Less Scary for Little Kids
Halloween can be a bit of a dichotomy, when you have young children. They are old enough to understand the concept of dressing up to be someone or something else, and the understand that when they do this on Halloween and go to other people’s homes, they get free candy. Excitement! What they likely won’t understand is what scary characters and scenes have to do with it. Why the scary, decomposing dead people, Mom? Good question, kid. When your children are very small, trying to explain why we …
