I rushed out of the house today.  I need to stop dorking with the computer before work.  My car greeted me with iced up windows.  Bad car.
A little background.  My wife just recently was able to fit the car back in her side of the garage.  My side is taken up with a grill, 4 different pedal pikes, a wagon, shelves to store all the kids’ old clothes, and a few other things that I can’t actually see to identify.
I park in the driveway.
I grabbed my handy dandy ice scraper from the trunk and pressed it against the window…and the …read more

When you have babies, the first few trips out of the house can be a little harrowing but you have to do it.  Mainly because after 9 months of hiding the baby (or plural in our case) you deserve to show them off.  Let the world see the wonderful additions to your family.
The Family & Relationships group of b5media is doing that today.  Since I’m one of the new guys, I haven’t had a chance to show of the wonderful new additions to my bloggling family.  (Man, that sounds as lame as it looks).
Anyway, Thrifty Mommy is hosting a little …read more

Has your career come to a standstill?  Does nobody ask about your children anymore?
You have lost your Working Parent Street Cred.
The metreoric rise through the office ranks sustained you for years.  Then, your priorities shifted to diapers, tantrums, and funny stories to tell around the office.  Your peers were fascinated by every tale.  They were amazed that you could get so much done in the office and still manage to spend time with your kids.
Then one day you told everybody about how your kid scored the winning goal in her soccer game the night before, and nobody even smiled.  When …read more

Tired of the rat race?  Tired of begging at your performance review and working during the weekends because another department did not finish their part of the project in time?
One option that people choose to escape the cubicle is to start their own franchise business.  But that can be very daunting.  Do you really want to run your own store or restaurant?
Something simple might seem like the way to go.  Something like the chores you had growing up.
If this sounds like you, you might want to consider starting your own poop-scooping business.  Yes, the same chore you complained about as …read more