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Jan 28 2012
Looking for presents sometimes make us confused and tired. We have to go to malls, shopping center, clothes shops, and toy shops. We have to enter from one shop to other shops. Of course if you use this way to look for presents, you will become so tired. Nowadays you can shop online. Shop on line is common today. You just connect to the internet and surfing. In this way you don’t waste your time, you don’t get tired, too. Continue reading “Let’s Buy Present for New Baby Born Online”
Jan 02 2012
This is how we have it set up in my household and it works well. My husband and I are both responsible for our own expenses, but we each fund the house account and pay house bills out of it. We always tell each other if we’re spending money out of the house account, but neither of us wants to know down to the dime what the other is spending money on. As long as we meet the agreements we’ve made about funding our savings and bills, then the rest we don’t worry about. Continue reading “Setting Up Accounts in a Family Part (2)”
Dec 29 2011
There are three basic ways to set up your accounts. The one-pot method is where each person puts any money they make into a shared account they both draw from according to needs. All household expenses come out of the pot, including anything related to the kids, such as child support payments, new clothes, school supplies, food, and toys. Continue reading “Setting Up Accounts in a Family”
Dec 25 2011
Mom always had a routine for us. We would go put our stuff away and then have a certain amount of time to ourselves before dinner. We always did it the same way.” Like Alex, I had to adjust to the different rules and rituals at my parents’ houses. Continue reading “Watch Out at Your Transition Day Part (2)”
Dec 21 2011
When the kids move from Mom’s house to Dad’s house and back, it is known in stepfamily circles as “Transition Day.” When I was a kid, my parents didn’t know there was a term for it, but I remember my mother commenting how crazy my brothers and I would all act the day we left her house for Dad’s and the day we returned. Continue reading “Watch Out at Your Transition Day”
Dec 17 2011
I don’t even have my own bathroom. It was a continual struggle to try to maintain some space. It makes my eye twitch just to think about it.” No matter how small your home is, do whatever you can to carve out a place that’s just yours, even if it’s just a reading nook beneath the staircase where you can put a chair, a light, or a little bookshelf. Feeling that you have at least a slice of something that’s all yours, knowing you have somewhere to escape to, will help ease the grind of daily life. Continue reading “Do You Have Your Own Sacred Place? Part (3)”
Dec 13 2011
When Mary finally moved in with her husband, Pat, whom she had dated for eleven years, she set up her boundaries as she went along. “My husband’s room used to be the meeting place, so that really had to change. I freaked out one time because after eating my breakfast, I went back into the bathroom in the master bedroom and there was my stepson taking a shower. Continue reading “Do You Have Your Own Sacred Place? Part (2)”
Dec 09 2011
We all need to feel as if we have a place to call our own. And to be the best stepmother you can be, it’s crucial to lay claim to a space that can become your sanctuary, whether you’re moving into the home where the kids already live (which most stepfamily experts recommend you don’t do if you can help it) or you’re all moving to a new place together. Continue reading “Do You Have Your Own Sacred Place?”