As a "stay-at-home-mom," my primary job is caring for my family and managing my home. But you certainly wouldn't know it by how I spend my time. Honestly, the cleaning, cooking, laundering of my job bores me to no end. I would rather do pretty much anything than fold my family's laundry. Which is why my mom spent three hours folding the laundry that I let pile up in my bedroom last weekend (thanks, Mom!). After seven years as a homemaker, you'd think I would have figured out some sort of a system to get the mundane parts of my day finished more efficiently. But I'm fairly undisciplined, so all of these tasks take me forever. I'm realizing that I Keep Reading

photo by Robert S. Donovan My husband and I leave for Nashville Wednesday morning to attend Blissdom -- a blogging conference. To be specific, I am going to Blissdom and my husband is going to watch TV and push our three-month-old, Matthew, around the Opryland Hotel. I've been writing a list of things to bring to Nashville for Baby Matthew and realized that many of you have probably never been on a plane with your own child. After six years of flying with a baby (at least 20 trips), here are six items I always bring on the plane for my baby: :: A nursing pillow -- I've never actually packed this, but I'm going to try it out on this trip. The key Keep Reading

I just received a great question from Heidi, a new couponer: My family has a basic Costco membership (I think $40/year) and we shop there at least once a month. I also get my contact lenses there and we get some other household things there (toilet paper, etc.). Since I'm new to couponing, I'm still learning how to do the deals and combine discounts, but at this stage of the game, just running out to Costco seems a lot easier for some things (like TP). Could you please address if Costco is or isn't really cheaper than Walgreens, Target, Safeway, Albertsons (with coupons) and/or if it's worth paying for the "privilege" to shop there. Here's the short Keep Reading