How to beat boredom
If you have children living with you, you are probably very familiar with this statement. I used it as a child, too, until I found some hobbies to keep me busy. Since we have had no school or daycare for… Continue Reading
Financial
A Legitimate Way to Make Money at Home—Helping Others
If you are like my spouse and me, you are living on a relatively limited or tight budget. We don’t have much money for extra things and do a lot of thrift shopping and looking for deals online. When our… Continue Reading
A Day With My Granddaughter—The Importance of Saying “No”
My granddaughter has this magical way of getting me to say “yes” to many things that she wants. I don’t like to tell her “no,” but it is important because she needs to understand that she can’t have everything she… Continue Reading
Everything on a budget—raising grandkids on a budget
If I had been on board the Titanic, I probably wouldn’t have been in the steerage section, and I certainly wouldn’t have been in the first class section with the “swells.” I would have been in the area somewhere between… Continue Reading
Just starting out—The long road ahead
So, you are a grandparent, but now you are in a new situation, that of a grandparent raising your grand kid. Maybe you haven’t been in a full-time parenting role for a long time. Or, maybe you still have some… Continue Reading
Grandparents raising their grandkids -the start of the second story
When the opportunity to have one of my grandchildren live with me on a permanent basis came up, a few things came to my mind. 1. Was I ready for raising another child? 2. Was I ready to give up… Continue Reading