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How to Recover Financially and Emotionally After Losing Your Home in a Wildfire

How to Recover Financially and Emotionally After Losing Your Home in a Wildfire

Los Angeles is the birthplace of ModernMom.com, and it’s been heart-wrenching to see so many suffering in our community. 

When a natural disaster strikes, the financial losses are staggering, but as moms, our first concern is often for our families. How do we explain this to our kiddos? How do we support our partners while holding ourselves together? How do we even find the strength to ask for help when we feel like we need to do it all? How are we going to get through this? It’s all so overwhelming.

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Top 10 Apps to Track Holiday Expenses

Managing holiday spending is no easy task, especially with the pressures of gifts, gatherings, and travel. Here are the top 10 apps to track holiday expenses. They will help you track every penny and stay on budget this holiday season. These apps offer excellent features for both families and individuals, and each includes a review quote and a specific use case to bring the app to life!

10 mins read

The Five Things I Learned In My Rookie Year Being A Working Mom

This Fall, I celebrated my first anniversary of returning to “working mom” after becoming a first-time mother. Ironically, in the same month, I started a new job. In retrospect, it’s not a coincidence. They say the first year is the hardest for significant life changes. It’s a period of unknowns, new obstacles, and inevitable mistakes made along the way. And frankly, since I don’t have much to compare it to at this point, I’d say year one of being a working mom was quite the cluster.