The Frugal Girl
MARCH 4, 2024
Our daughter is 24 and was adopted from Eastern Europe when she was one week short of a year old. Our son is 29 and biological. He married the love of his life almost two years ago, so now we have a daughter-in-law, too. The photos included with this post are mainly from our travel adventures. How about two things?
The Frugal Girl
JANUARY 22, 2024
I’m fifty years old, married almost 25 years, with four sons of various ages ranging from all grown up to still-working-on-it. ? an illustration I did for one of my son’s books. We also like to have enough means to travel and visit family and friends, so being frugal in some areas helps us be generous in others.
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The Frugal Girl
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
I’m a long-distance cyclist, a triathlete, a wife, a mother of two, a sister, a daughter, a friend, DIY-er, and a community member! Sunrise with my daughter at Lake Michigan Our son is now 15, and about 25 hours into his private pilot’s license, which he’s funding by earning money working for my father-in-law.
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
AUGUST 17, 2015
We Baby Boomers are fueling the travel industry and many of us are taking our extended families along on our vacations. Forbes reports that travel agencies say that 10% of their trips are multi generational. A soon-to-be-released survey from MMGY Global, a travel industry research company, finds that around 5.5
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
DECEMBER 11, 2013
My eighteen-month-old daughter would watch early morning kids TV and then we would sit and read several books together while I ate dry crackers to ease the nausea. My son had an advanced reading age quite early and the books in the classroom held no interest for him and he started to lose interest in reading. My husband left at 5.30
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
OCTOBER 11, 2016
Another criteria used for this pick might be the length of the commute or the frequency of travel. My career as a Software Development Manager (which my computer programming job led to) provided just the right amount of travel opportunity. Parent’s are proud to say; My Son the Doctor or My Daughter the Astronaut.
Prairie Eco-Thrifter
MAY 23, 2012
Expand horizons through travel. This would be even better, if they are part of a youth group traveling together under adult supervision. Your son or daughter visits different relatives in different cities, taking a temporary job in each to earn gas money and pay back their hosts for food and etc.
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