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Book Nook: But Definitely Wear Mascara: Hacks to Help you Love Your Mom Life (and Yourself) a Little More

Motherhood Moments

Oden walked away from a lucrative career as a lawyer to be a stay-at-home mom before eventually returning to the legal field part time to strike the balance she needed. Nurturing your career while nurturing your family is not easy, and there are a ton of opportunities to find yourself on the Hot Mess Express along the way.

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Working on My Time Management

Family Balance Sheet

For 6 years, my kids have dictated my schedule and now I am juggling working part time outside of the home, shuttling my kids to soccer practice, managing our home, spending quality time with my family, training for my first half-marathon in October, and finding time to work in my blog and other projects.

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10 Smart Ways to Become Debt Free

Family Balance Sheet

I have since interviewed 16 families who have collectively paid off over ONE MILLION DOLLARS in debt. With that much success, these people are a wealth of information, so I poured over their content and realized that there was no magic pill, or snap of the fingers, just HARD WORK. Stacy and her family stayed home.

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Things You Can Do To NOT Make Money

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

At least one of the kids had a great show and tell out of the process while he was in kindergarten. He did win several things, the largest being a bike (medium priced, nothing fancy) which we gave to our youngest kid. We never calculated his return on time and postage, but I’m pretty sure he was well into a hole on it.

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Do You Hate Your Job?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Doing something every day that you dread, something that makes you fume, something that makes your stomach churn and your sleep restless is extremely bad – for your health, for your family, for your friends and for your life. He had a job that paid barely enough (in his opinion) to keep the family going. What are the symptoms?

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Carnival of Financial Planning – Money Management Edition #236 – May 11, 2012

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Jester presents The Importance of Vacations For Kids posted at The Ultimate Juggle , saying, “This article explains the reasons that we prefer to take destination oriented vacations for the kid’s sake. Without giving too much information, I foresee an engagement in the coming months.

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50 Best Small-Business Ideas – NerdWallet

Savings Corner

If you love every little detail of coordinating your kid’s birthday or your dad’s retirement party, start offering your Type-A services to partiers in your community or within your personal network. You’ll need access to a commercial kitchen, a part-time staff of servers and a couple of assistant cooks to start.