Category: WAHM Perplexities

A Dollar Saved is A Dollar Earned – Usually… »

I am overhauling my family’s finances and adopting an envelope system budget as well as putting my husband and myself on an allowance. I want to get out of the red and into the green I have been trying various cost cutting measures with great success but yesterday while in the local dollar store with [...]

Writing Procrastination »

I’m a very productive person but find myself procrastinating at times by doing one thing to avoid another. The thing is, I’m never really slacking though. I write to procrastinate from housework and I do housework when I’m taking a break from writing. When does a WAHM take a real break? It took a mini [...]

Dinner Woes, Kindergarten Conundrums and Fishing Enigmas »

Some days I wonder how I manage to get anything done.  Today, we had a dinner snafu that ended in grilled cheese sandwiches becuase the meat, potatoes and other vegetables went in the garbage courtesy of my normally extra sensitive nose misleading me. Seems a tetra pak of beef stock that had a Jan 09 [...]