Do you “COUPON”? Do you spend time cutting coupons, filing them, and track your savings each week?  Do you consider yourself to be a “Coupon Queen” (or King)? My mom is a pretty amazing coupon shopper, but I’ll admit I’ve not invested myself quite deeply enough to see significant savings. Oh, I use coupons.  When I remember to bring my coupon filer.  Or when I remember that I HAVE a coupon for a particular...

Curly’s older cousin, Moe, gave her a Tshirt recently that is bright yellow with a hot pink graphic on the front that reads, “My Mom Rocks!” (I’d post a pic, but it’s in the dirty laundry at the moment…) I read it to her the first time she wore it, and now every time she puts it on, she says proudly “My Mom Rocks!” and does a little happy dance. I don’t even pay her to do that – somehow...

I was always a SERIOUS fan of Little House on the Prairie.  I watched the show when I was growing up, and then of course I read the book series authored by Laura Ingalls Wilder countless times. I was always intrigued by the little girl who lived in a time when Trains were an amazing “newfangled” mode of transportation, where Christmas gifts were few, simple & homemade, where having windowpanes in a house was a sign of...