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3 Financial Moves to Make Before You Buy a Home
Home sales in the U.S. are skyrocketing as interest rates remain at historically low levels. In fact, Zillow expects nearly 7 million existing-home sales this year—the most since 2005. With so many prospective homebuyers on the market, you too may be wondering if it’s time to take the plunge into homeownership. Before you begin hunting…
6 Tips for Staying Slim During BBQ (and Bikini) Season!
Barbeque season is here along with all of its usual fun – outdoor games and delicious food! A few weeks ago, we had our annual Memorial Day cookout and each arrived with the platters of food that everyone expects (our vegetable crudit) in addition to something else healthy and also yummy.
8 Easy Ways to Be Happy
Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth. – Pharrell Williams A lot has been made in our culture about how to be happy. Pop stars sing about it. Ivy League professors lecture about it. Best-selling authors write about it. “Positive psychology” has become a popular field for researchers exploring the roots of…
Come Clean, Parents! | What’s Your Real Cleaning Style?
Raising kids is the toughest job in the world, and no parent is perfect (in spite of what's posted on your Instagram feed). Fortunately, appearances don’t matter when we’re spending time with our families, and we get to be who we really are. And the fact is, from time to time, we all have to make some compromises—smelly,…
4 Things We Have to Stop Saying to Our Kids
1. Dont throw like a girl. 2. Take it like a man! 3. Stop whining; you sound like a little girl! 4. Big boys dont cry. These are examples of things I recall being said throughout my childhood, and no one thought anything of it. However, recently, Ive been hearing these things again, and its really disturbing. It is a reminder that there is still a lot of work to be done in how we express what we value, especially to our children.