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Our Favorite Time-Saving Apps And Tools

Is your calendar fully marked up with work meetings, appointments, and deadlines? Do you feel like sometimes there just isn’t enough time in the day to get everything done? Whether you’re running a business or simply running a household, staying up to date with emails, paperwork and schedules can be downright exhausting. That’s why we’ve [Read More]

August 10th, 2013|Categories: Life|

Top Pinterest Tips For Parents: Inspiring Kids To Learn

With summer in full swing, many parents are using Pinterest to discover endless ideas on how to keep their kids engaged and learning over the summer. In fact, people pin more than 500,000 education-related pins every day. Productive activities such as science experiments, reading lists, and outdoor crafts not only keep children entertained, but also [Read More]

August 10th, 2013|Categories: Fam|

Stress-Free Shopping? Sign Me Up

I love to shop. I never thought a personal styling service would be my thing. I have a decent eye for what works well on my body and enjoy the whole dressing room ritual, perusing through the store and finding the perfect item for my event. But then I started working full time, with an [Read More]

August 9th, 2013|Categories: You|

5 Ways To Make Money From Renting Stuff You Already Own

The Internet has made it easier than ever for people to make money from things they already own. From renting out your car, your house or even your wet suit, you can make bank while sitting on your butt (or still being active, whatever works). Here are our five favorite ways to loan out your stuff: [Read More]

August 8th, 2013|Categories: Stuff|Tags: |

How To Declutter Your Facebook Friends

Hey, it’s perfectly ok to periodically go through your Facebook friend list and unfriend those you don’t keep in touch with anymore. We all have that random acquaintance who friended us after one brief interaction, or that friend of a friend we vaguely remember. We’re not designed to keep in touch with every single person [Read More]

August 6th, 2013|Categories: Life|Tags: |

Kids Hate Reading? Try Audiobooks

After years of watching one of my 10 year-old sons resist my required 20 minutes of reading each night while his twin brother easily sped through non-fiction history books, my husband and I decided that a new, low-stress strategy was in order. So we researched other ways for my son to experience books and discovered [Read More]

August 3rd, 2013|Categories: Fam|

I’m Scared The Internet Is Ruining My Children

In my household, we frequently use a “thumbs up” signal to indicate that we are okay with what the other family member is doing.  If I send my 8-year old to find a restroom in a restaurant on his own, once he’s located the door, he’ll come back into my line of vision and give [Read More]

August 3rd, 2013|Categories: Fam|Tags: , , , , |

Could You Handle A Year On The Road With Your Fam?

Could you pack up your life and travel around the world with your kids for a year? Would you want to? For most of us, a year of traveling with family sounds like a pipe dream or a disaster waiting to happen. But for John Higham, author of 360 Degrees Longitude: One Family's Journey Around [Read More]

August 3rd, 2013|Categories: Life|