Being a working mother has its challenges. There’s an understatement for you! Luckily for me and many other working moms, we don’t have to face those challenges alone. We have help, albeit in varying degrees. I’m very fortunate to not only be married to an extremely supportive husband, but one who thoroughly believes paying a [...]

The older I get, the more valuable my time is to me. When I was a kid and even a young adult, time was as abundant as the spare change accumulating in the water jug by my Dad’s desk. Any time I misspent was no more costly than a penny dropping out of my pocket.
Now [...]

Tomorrow is the last day of school for my kids. Finally! I know a lot of the country is already done with school, but here in Upstate New York we like to drag out the school year as long as possible with various field trips, class picnics, talent shows, field days, parades, plays, dances, concerts, [...]

We’ve all heard the dreaded question from our kids and our spouse . . .
“What’s for dinner?”
On good days, I actually have an answer. Lately though with soccer five nights a week and work being extra busy, I find myself responding . . .
“I don’t know.”
While my girls are a big help when it comes [...]

Know that jar of spare change on your dresser? It’s time it started earning not only interest, but productivity time for you. And when you’re a parent working from home, you need all the productivity time you can get!

We all know that time is money. But, in this case, money is time. Those dimes, nickels, [...]

My seven-year-old daughter’s First Communion was yesterday. So of course I took a bunch of pictures. She looked so beautiful!

Afterwards as we were enjoying brunch back at our home, the usual joke came up about how I always take a ton of pictures, but no one ever gets to see them because I’m over a [...]