Family Balance Sheet

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

We live no where near CT, but at the time, I had a first grader and I just couldn’t shake what the parents of those murdered children were going through. The family that we “adopted” was a grandmother (I will call her Tanya, but not her real name) and her 3 grandkids. Our kids sensed something was different.

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Family Kids and Family Dec Grandkids 219

Family Balance Sheet

APRIL 24, 2015

This Week’s Dinners: Saturday: We had my parents and grandmother over for dinner and I made Pioneer Women’s Chicken Parmigiana, garden salad, steamed broccoli, and my tasty (but cheap) garlic bread. I am getting better at putting leftovers in the freezer if we don’t eat them before they go bad.

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Budgeting Budget Leftovers Freezers 100

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

AUGUST 12, 2014

But even if your parents or grandparents weren’t participants in important world events like the Great Depression and World War II, they likely still have interesting stories to tell. You’ll have precious memories to share with your children and grandchildren of your own parents and grandparents.

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Making Film Uncle Grandchildren 167

For the Mommas

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Raised by two loving parents, adored by her grandmother, protected by her dog, Pepper, and supported by her best friend—Madeline has it all. Twenty-two years old with a journalism degree from UCLA and a promising entry level position at a television station, Madeline Patterson is ready to take on the Universe.

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Boston Grandmother Television Televisions 40

Nicoles Nickels

OCTOBER 8, 2012

I’m working with Luvs Diapers who, knowing that many moms do things differently the second time around, have developed a series of “First Kid/Second Kid” online videos comparing the way many parents were with their first kid and how things changed with their second child. I just watched the 4 videos and had a good laugh.

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Video Kids Parenting Grandmother 51

Motherhood Moments

JANUARY 9, 2023

COMANCHE GIRL ON THE MOON Written by Dustin Tahmahkera Co-Commissioned by Native Voices at the Autry and Children’s Theatre Company Comanche Girl on the Moon stars an imaginative but insecure Comanche girl named Petu who discovers her late grandmother Kaku’s secret rocket ship on her family’s allotment in Oklahoma.

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Los Angeles Art Work Girls 100

Family Balance Sheet

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Saturday: We had my parents and both of my grandmothers over for dinner. This Week’s Dinners: I tried two new recipes this week that I found on the Food Network’s website. We don’t have cable TV and that is one channel that I do miss, so I check that website often for recipe ideas.

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Meals Leftovers Kids and Family Homemade 100

Saving Cents With Sense

JUNE 2, 2014

My grandmother was originally from NY and my grandparents took several trips across country throughout the years. She and her parents last visited AZ in 2002, so it had been 12 years since we last saw each other. Sea Life Arizona Summer Family Fun. Last week we had family visiting from New York.

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Arizona Family Kids and Family Tickets 81

For the Mommas

JANUARY 27, 2013

Rose and her siblings are supposed to keep the Cookery Booke under lock and whisk-shaped key while their parents are out of town, but then a mysterious stranger shows up. Lance Michelli is on a quest to discover the secrets his grandmother cannot tell. Soon boring, nonmagical recipes feel like life before Aunt Lily—a lot less fun.

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Aunt Grandmother Bestsellers Parenting 55

For the Mommas

APRIL 12, 2016

Eager to escape her notoriety, Annamae takes a road trip to find the grandmother she’s never met and winds up discovering a whole lot more than a band of back woods relatives. Getting caught prematurely causes them to admit their love for each other to their parents.

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Wedding New York City Grandmother Atlanta 40

For the Mommas

MARCH 11, 2014

Fleeing her picture-perfect marriage among the privileged set of Brentwood and the wreckage of a failed marriage, Lily Parkins decides to move to the only place that still holds happy memories, her grandmother’s old farmhouse. Her grandmother has passed away, leaving the Madrona Island Bed & Breakfast Inn to Lily.

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Video Games Grandmother Parenting Washington 68

Nicoles Nickels

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Noah’s grandmother often takes him after school as a reward and it is an easy place to get in and out of on a weeknight, many people don’t realize that! Chuck E Cheese has a promise to parents that I think is great: Kid Check. Cheese’s is still that fun place for kids located right in your neighborhood!

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Chuck E Cheese Giveaway Rewards Family 111

For the Mommas

JANUARY 26, 2014

Having lost both her parents and grandparents, and with nowhere else to go, Layla is moving from Florida to a small town in North Carolina to live with the only family she has left: her estranged uncle and aunt. At 17, Layla Weston is already starting over.

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North Carolina Grandmother Motivation Free 61

For the Mommas

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The daughter of wealthy merchants in Seattle, she feels betrayed both by her real parents and by the ones who raised her. When Maggie asks to visit her grandmother in Arkansas, her father agrees on the condition that she take her Aunt Georgia as a chaperone and his young partner, Charles Stanton, as protection on the journey.

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Arkansas Grandmother Wisconsin Georgia 55

The Frugal Girl

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Did you ever receive any financial education in school or from your parents? I didn’t get any financial education from my parents, just a vague but significant anxiety around money. I was especially close to my maternal grandmother, though, and any financial education I got came from her. from my neighborhood walk 12.

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Daughter Green And Frugal Money Grandmother 130

Motherhood Moments

JANUARY 23, 2023

, a new animated series for kids ages 3-6 produced by GBH Kids and Pipeline Studios , starring a playful trio of marsupial siblings—Malik, Zadie and Zeke—who live with their grandmother, Super, in their treehouse apartment complex. Super, their grandmother, is the Superintendent and unofficial “Mayor” of the Treeborhood.

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Work Education Television Televisions 130

The Frugal Girl

JANUARY 22, 2024

Back when I was engaged and living on my own for the first time (I lived with my parents while in grad school to save on rent), I went to the library a lot and found a copy of the Tightwad Gazette. Did you ever receive any financial education in school or from your parents? Maybe four years? How did you get interested in saving money?

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Rent Son Frugal Home and Garden 181

Nicoles Nickels

DECEMBER 25, 2012

It reminds me of my childhood and how my grandmother cooked for us. I love traditional Jewish cooking. I do know a lot of our family’s recipes and have shared some of them on this site but I have a lot more to learn!

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Cooking Giveaway Family CD 74

Saving With Shellie

AUGUST 24, 2015

Letting kids have unsupervised time online can be scary for parents. When kids are little it’s easy to monitor them with parental controls and kid-safe web browsers. A good practice is to encourage them to never post or say something unless they would be comfortable showing it to their grandmother.

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Kids and Family Giveaway Cameras Kids 40

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JANUARY 13, 2011

Monthly cooking appears to be a growing trend, however, think back to when you were young and you likely remember your parents or grandmother cooking far too much food and freezing it for later use. The following are some tips, tricks, and tools you can employ to lower your energy use. 1 – Create a Monthly Hearty Meal.

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Food and Drink Re-use Home Drinks 147

For the Mommas

AUGUST 10, 2014

A desperate Vivi dives headfirst into the quicksand that is Greeceher parents birthplace. Shes crawling along rock bottom when the arrival of a mysterious package opens a new door to a new country. Clarityby Loretta Lost. She did not expect a traumatic event to devastate her life and force her to drop out of college.

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Fridays Daughter Grandmother Wisconsin 51

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JANUARY 13, 2011

Monthly cooking appears to be a growing trend, however, think back to when you were young and you likely remember your parents or grandmother cooking far too much food and freezing it for later use. The following are some tips, tricks, and tools you can employ to lower your energy use. 1 – Create a Monthly Hearty Meal.

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Food and Drink Re-use Home Drinks 133

Motherhood Moments

JANUARY 11, 2023

Rounding out Ace’s family is her “Irish twin” brother Sawyer, who gives the best pedicures in town, and her laidback but loving parents. Forest as an irresistible force of nature, luscious, tantalizing — and maybe not completely out of reach.

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Massachusetts Grandmother Brother Family 130

Saving With Shellie

MARCH 26, 2015

Any parent would. It is the ultimate test for any parent: How far would you go to protect your child? To his wife’s shock, Nathan wants to adopt the boy…but the child’s grandmother steps in. And an even greater shock: The accused is Andy’s own son—shy, awkward, mysterious Jacob. Andy believes in Jacob’s innocence.

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Libbys Boys Kids and Family Grandfather 40

Coupons Do Work

OCTOBER 5, 2016

When I was a kid, I would joke to my grandmother that people should get paid to shop; she laughed and said, someday that will happen — and thankfully it has! As a single parent, I have to count my pennies and with my favorite 6 Apps, these are the best cashback sites that ‘pay you to shop’, don’t you love this?

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Money Saving Money Grandmother Saving 149

Coupons Do Work

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

It isn’t like when we were kids, when the cable went out we cried to our parents “I wanna watch tv during my downtime!” I am a single parent; I have to keep running my site and help others as much as I can (that is why I created this awesome site!). I cut the cable, and the kids are not complaining. ” Why?

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Watches Kids and Family Arlington Music 100

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

If my great-grandmother’s generation hadn’t labored for suffrage and my Mother’s generation hadn’t become Rosie the Riveters, would she have trained me to believe I could do anything and would I and the hordes of other baby boom women ended up in the workforce?

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Finance Economical Real Estate Money 165

Family Balance Sheet

OCTOBER 26, 2013

When I look back on my childhood Christmases, I do remember some memorable gifts, like the year my brother and I received the Atari game system (yes, I am that old) and the year our parents got us both skis and took us skiing on Christmas night.

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Christmas Club Finds October 100

Family Balance Sheet

APRIL 12, 2016

I am the oldest of seven kids (yes, we all have the same parents – I get asked that quite a bit!). The inspiration to pay off my debt was watching my grandmother balance her checkbook. My childhood was split between Florida, Ohio and Minnesota. I am used to moving a lot! I am now back living in South Florida.

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Credit Cards Debt Debt Free Student 100