If you use Swagbucks to search the web then you know how easy it is to earn “bucks” to buy some really great things.  Right now you can use those “bucks” to help Haiti.  The devastation is, an will continue to be, terrible.
As aid continues to pour in humanity in Haiti is breaking down. [...]

Are you getting a new computer for Christmas?  What will you do with the old one?  If you’re like us you use a computer until it dies; then you patch it together and hand it down to the kids.  But what do you do with them after they die?
My town had an e-waste recycling day [...]

Brenna will be 5 in a few days.  I know!  I, too, am a bit bewildered by the fact that I have a child, let alone a child who is 5.
Because 5 is a rather big milestone – yes, it is – and because I hear two little girls say “can I play a game [...]

In Iowa we know quite a bit about natural disasters. Sure, we don’t get the media attention on places like New Orleans when Katrina hit but I’m pretty sure the devastation of the Parkersburg tornado was at least equal to it- if not more devastating as the town was, quite literally, wiped off the [...]

According to my accountant preschool costs qualify for the dependent care credit. I wasn’t aware of this and wondered how many other WAHMs (and Dads) may not have known about it.
Just because you work at home doesn’t mean you don’t work! Take your deduction!

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We live quite close to the main lake in our area. In fact, when there is an emergency call to the lake we know about it right away- the emergency vehicles go past our house. I get a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach every time I see the rescue boat and divers [...]

A big mess.
Our neighborhood has a lot of those big, fancy, brick mailboxes. You know… The ones that match the houses and three or four mailboxes are all together…
Well, Saturday evening a 16 year old kid was texting while driving. And this mailbox got in his way:

I have no idea how fast he was going. [...]

If you are you’ll want to be careful- scammers are after your money! Doug received an email today with the return address : Internal Revenue Service
Here’s what Doug has to say about it: The web address is in machine code. Only hackers like doing that. Also the “Document Reference” is that same machine code that [...]

About a year ago Doug got a speeding ticket. We were in rural Iowa on our way to a family reunion. Those county highways can be long and dull. It’s very easy to go too fast. Even if your wife is sitting next to you saying things like, “We really aren’t [...]

And Don’t Let the Bed Bugs Bite.
I remember my mom saying that when I was a kid. At the time it was cute as I pictured bed bugs as being kind of like Ernie’s Tweedlebugs on Sesame Street.
Now it isn’t all that cute due to all the reports of them being in hotels. {{shudder}} There [...]

Did you know that May is Lupus Awareness Month? I didn’t either, as lupus is a disease that I know next to nothing about. I was friends in high school with a girl who had lupus but she really never mentioned her condition.
I recently became aware of FirstGiving.com an online arena where you can raise [...]

It seems that every time you turn on the news or read a paper (does anyone read papers anymore? Or do you get your news online like I do?) there is another public health danger or recall.
Too many to keep track of, I know. Let me direct you to the only source you need for [...]

Just a little FYI for anyone using E85.
I loaded up the girls this morning to head to the dentist for a final bit of dental work. Because it is a bit of a drive and I knew I couldn’t get E85 where we were going, I stopped to fill the gas tank.
After filling the [...]