I honestly don’t know much about asthma, it hasn’t touched my small family. My nephew, however, does have some asthma symptoms and has been prescribed some medications to help treat his problems.
Because asthma is the most common chronic condition among school aged children (resulting in almost 13 million missed school days per year) it [...]

Yeah, me too. This ain’t it. (Sorry for all the political stuff lately… It seems we’re losing our freedoms faster than anyone thought possible…)
Anyway, it seems the Iowa legislature is looking to do away with the federal deductibility with Bill HSB284. Don’t know what federal deductibility is? In a nutshell:
In [...]

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Liz who said…
I left a comment on One Brick Shy’s blog. It is cute!

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Dawn @ My Home Sweet Home said…
I left Amanda a comment.
Both winners have been contacted via Twitter and have 3 days to [...]

How is a 9% increase in spending sacrificing anything?
“We made the tough choices,” Paterson [governor D-NY] said in a statement released yesterday night. He said the spending and tax plan called for “shared sacrifice” that “stabilizes our finances.”
Governor Paterson is not talking about the government sacrificing anything – he is talking about the New [...]

We visited Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts a couple weeks ago. Visit Have Kid Will Travel and step back in time with us.

In what way and on what planet is this a good thing? I don’t care if the GM CEO needed to step down or not. The point is that it is the Board of Director’s decision, not a politician’s. What President Obama has done now is cause insecurity and panic with that company. Why? Because [...]

This one is for you Joe. No, I really don’t think “Soviet Canada” as we are much closer to having fewer rights and freedoms in the US than the USSR. And if many of the leftists get their way, we’ll have the purges here too.

We had actually planned to have a relatively relaxing Saturday…
HA! The weather decided to turn gorgeous so we went to Fall River and toured Battleship Cove. Practically every area was accessible on the ships and the submarine. We spent almost 4 hours there and didn’t see everything.
We left there, got a bit [...]

I’m not really sure why this recipe was titled the way it was – which is to say without mentioning peanuts in the title- as I don’t think the noodles are so much sesame as peanut-y. So I modified the title a bit.
I also made a couple of changes, which I will point out [...]

So, in two months our elected officials and our President have spent more money than the entire US grosses in a year. Timothy Geithner has requested the ability to take over any financial company he thinks is failing (because, you know, he did so well with the whole AIG bailout). California is looking [...]

You may remember that I took the expert from Family Circle’s Financial Planner: Expert Money Advice to task the other day for doling out bad credit card advice.
It seems I should have pulled apart the entire article because, with the exception of the first piece of advice (yes, keep contributing to your 401k) I don’t [...]

When we’re at home we don’t have cable TV. And, surprisingly, the girls don’t miss it. We watch a few shows on PBS in the morning and then turn it off the rest of the day. One of the favorite shows is Thomas & Friends. Brenna walks around singing the catchy [...]

When I was having my website for Have Kid Will Travel designed this past week I had a little scare when doing transfers from one host to another and thought, for just a moment, that I had lost my blog. Every trip, every tip, every review.
Luckily I didn’t. But it gave me quite [...]

Because I don’t recall contacting them about my rewards issue. If you recall I was lamenting that I hadn’t accumulated enough rewards to actually “earn” anything as the smallest “cost” was 5000 miles and I only had 2173.
Today I got a call from Capital One. Again, I don’t recall sending them an email [...]

As I began reading Laura Rider’s Masterpiece I was identifying with the main character, Laura. After all, what wife doesn’t feel a waning in her relationship every one in a while? And, like Laura, I love to read and have hopes of, someday, writing a novel of my own.
As I continued reading I [...]