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Avoid Investing Errors

March 19, 2018 by Jaimi Erickson Leave a Comment

Avoid investing errors to get your budget in balance and keep your finances in order.

{Post by Jessica} Tax season is a time when many think about their financial outlook, explore saving or invest wisely to avoid investing errors. This year we are very fortunate to be receiving a slight increase in our income. Mind you, the increase will be a result of a 9 month deployment. Not fun. Nevertheless, part of me wants to loosen up our budget a bit and have … [Read more...]

Days of Summer Fun for Less

July 6, 2017 by Jaimi Erickson 1 Comment

Have days of summer fun for less. Save money with these tips and coupons to enjoy the days of Summer with fun and inexpensivev activities for the whole family.

This post is sponsored by Groupon. All opinions are my own. Please view my disclosure. All the long Summer days keep us moms thinking of fun activities to keep our families spending quality time together and making memories. Making the last days of Summer fun can be affordable, unique and will create life-long memories that your family will cherish. Grab a few of these … [Read more...]

Buying Affordable Furniture

January 31, 2017 by Jaimi Erickson 9 Comments

Buying affordable furniture on a limited budget. #as CORT Furniture Clearance Center

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of CORT. All opinions are 100% mine. Have you ever wanted a piece of furniture but could not afford exactly what you wanted? We waited a long time to get a coffee table because we could not find what we wanted in the price range we could afford. Not having a piece of furniture that will add function to your room is … [Read more...]

6 Tips to Get Your Finances in Order

April 18, 2016 by Jaimi Erickson 3 Comments

6 tips to get your finances in order so you can Spring clean your budget and financial outlook too. PolicyGenius financial and insurance tips will save you time.

My husband and I hardly saved a dollar when we first got married. We were both full-time students, living in on-campus married housing, eating box meals and disagreeing about our financial plans pretty regularly. My husband and I did not see eye to eye when it came to money. It has taken effort on my part to stay focused on saving while not trying to restrict my husband from … [Read more...]

Teaching Kids Financial Responsibility

March 13, 2016 by Jaimi Erickson 4 Comments

3 steps to teaching kids financial responsibility. These are practical and can start today!

Welcome to Mom Motivation Mondays where weekly contributing writers share their motherhood experiences to encourage you to find the joy in being a mom. {This week: Post by Heather} I remember feeling proud I wasn’t the mother who bought her kids something every time we went to the store. (Insert eye roll here.) Imagine my surprise, after a couple of years, when my … [Read more...]

Becoming A Stay-at-Home Mom

January 31, 2016 by Jaimi Erickson 8 Comments

Stay-at-home moms share their tips for working moms and new moms looking at becoming a stay-at-home mom. The books shared are so helpful for focusing on living on one income and being encouraged while becoming a stay-at-home mom.

What really solidified my desire to focus on becoming a stay-at-home mom was my miscarriage. Getting attached to that baby so fast, having only weeks to celebrate the new little life, and then to have to let go of that life in such a gruesome way, made me realize how precious time is-particularly when you have a little being to nurture. Now I look at 8 years of being a … [Read more...]

Wonderful Wednesday Blog Hop #159

January 19, 2016 by Jaimi Erickson 4 Comments

Wonderful Wednesday Blog Hop

This blog hop is so much fun! If you haven't already, do scroll through the Wonderful Wednesday Blog Hop entries and see what catches your eye. The assortment of amazing recipes, kids activities and DIY ideas is really quite breathtaking.   So, which posts caught your eye last week at Wonderful Wednesday?  I will give you a hint: one involves saving money at Jo-Ann fabrics! … [Read more...]

Deals on Store-Bought or Homemade Halloween Costumes for Kids

October 6, 2015 by Jaimi Erickson 1 Comment

Deals that will save you money on Halloween costumes for kids-boys, girls, baby, toddler and adult too! earn cash back on your purchase as well.

This post contains affiliate links. Please view my disclosure for more info. Have your children decided what they want to dress up as for Halloween? Whether you plan to buy your child’s Halloween costume or make it at home, I have wrangled up some deals on store bought and homemade Halloween costumes for kids. Some costumes cost as little as $12! All of the retailers I am … [Read more...]

Convenient Shopping App for Moms

September 10, 2015 by Jaimi Erickson 2 Comments

No more chaotic shopping trips dragging the kids to the store when you need to try on clothes! This is a convenient app for moms.

  This post is written on behalf of PatPat Shopping App. All thoughts are mine. Please view my disclosure. You know what is challenging? Trying to shop for clothes when the kids are with me. I pretty much have written off shopping unless I have a few hours alone when the kids can be at home with my husband. Of course watching the budget means I have to be really careful … [Read more...]

6 Tips to Save Money on Back to School Shopping

August 10, 2015 by Jaimi Erickson 3 Comments

This post contains affiliate links and was sponsored by Shopathome.com. I only review and share products and services that I would use in my home in hopes that it can be helpful for you with your children. Please view my disclosure. It is time to go through the clothes, check the supply lists and make sure the school shoes still fit. Back to School season is here, … [Read more...]

The Most Affordable Essential Oils: The Thrifty Twenty

August 2, 2015 by Jaimi Erickson 6 Comments

 Since I have to keep my household budget in mind as I explore how to use essential oils in my home, I created a go-to list of the most affordable essential oils from Young Living. I call it the Thrifty Twenty. These are the most affordable essential oils you can use in your home.   Essential oils are an investment in your family's health. To get started it takes … [Read more...]

Cash Back Savings on Back to School Shopping

July 26, 2015 by Jaimi Erickson 2 Comments

This post contains affiliate links and was sponsored by Shopathome.com. I only review and share products and services that I would use in my home in hopes that it can be helpful for you with your children. Please view my disclosure. As we prepare for Back to School Season, saving money is a priority of mine. It is a lesson I want to teach my children to value too. I remember … [Read more...]

4 Money-Saving Tips for Families

June 20, 2015 by Jaimi Erickson 1 Comment

This post is sponsored by Giving Assistant for Moms Affiliate. Please view my disclosure. These 4 money-saving tips allow you to keep more money in your pocket while also giving to charities that you choose. You do not have to spend a lot of money to give your children a good life and become financially stable. I make it my mission to be as frugal as possible just so I can … [Read more...]

Complete Guide for Stay-at-Home Moms: Work at Home Resources

April 22, 2015 by Jaimi Erickson 4 Comments

At times, one income is not enough to live off of for various reasons. Being a stay-at-home mom is still possible even if you need to add a second source of income to your household. Included here are over 150 work at home resources and jobs for you to explore. If you want or need to look into work at home jobs, we have you covered.  … [Read more...]

Complete Guide for Stay-at-Home Moms: Resources for Living on One Income

April 21, 2015 by Jaimi Erickson 10 Comments

Living on one income is possible. Being a stay-at-home mom for some is a choice, but for others it is the ONLY choice. We make staying home with our children possible by our planning, focus on our budgets and money management. These are fancy terms, but setting up a budget spreadsheet for your family is not complicated. I have included my own personal Excel spreadsheet that … [Read more...]

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I pictured myself as a mom of boys before having m I pictured myself as a mom of boys before having my babies. I have learned so much from all my children but having my girls is a blessing I never knew I needed. 

Want to eliminate mean girls? Raise daughters to do the opposite.

Want to teach women to better communicate with each other? Raise daughters to listen and articulate.

They are my own little girl group and I am grateful for it. They love me on my bad days and give me compliments I do not even deserve. 

I do love being the mom of girls (and boys). They both teach me so much. 

What are the top lessons you wish girls would learn before becoming adults? 

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Will you be spending time with family for Easter? Will you be spending time with family for Easter? 

My husband’s parents have arrived - adding one more big dog to our house and lots of crafts and fun. We have not seen them since June. Everyone is excited to spend time together.

Both of my big kids have birthdays and we will all get to spend time at the beach this month. Our school work will morph into field trips so we soak up every day we can being present with family. 

I am looking forward to making memories, soaking in time together and celebrating two milestone birthdays - one happening tomorrow. 💛 

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🌟The faces we make when a Costco run with all t 🌟The faces we make when a Costco run with all the kids actually goes well!!! 🌟 

Ice cream after helped of course. 😂

All prepped for my in-laws coming to visit us after not seeing them since our move last summer. Looking forward to some fun events ahead that will make my kids think they are on spring break but they will technically be field trip days. Check, check. 

Are you guys on spring break this week? What do you have planned?

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Some days you put on the 10 year old comfy jeans, Some days you put on the 10 year old comfy jeans, fill your mind with encouragement and just keep moving forward. 

Recovery days are not just for working out. They are for the mental state we walk around with too. Yesterday felt heavy. My God is a power lifter and takes the burden away. 

Today will be better.

Today we will rest and refocus.

Hooray for comfy jeans, motivational graphics and the Word to focus on through it all. 

(Faith fashion: @choseninchrist use code Jaimi to save.)

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🌟That Face!!🌟 That little boy is soon to t 🌟That Face!!🌟 

That little boy is soon to turn 13, guys! I mean in a few weeks. 😅

This is a throwback but brings back so many fun memories. 

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I love creating activities and crafts on the fly. Always have even before my kids were here.

I noticed that my son did not have a lot of little toy people to play with while he was pretending one day. We have a few cylinder blocks in a set. We never used them when we built. I thought we could turn them into little DIY toy people. 

They were so cute and easy to make. It was a preschool art project for him. We made them together.

If you don’t have wooden cylindrical blocks at home, you can use pieces of wood dowel or even a few square blocks glued together. You can even make DIY toy people out of toilet paper tubes. 

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I am so excited and yet in complete shock by how fast these little lives grow. I have never missed moments and I am so so grateful especially as we approach the teen years in my house. 💛 Soak up even the hard days of being a mom. TOTALLY worth it. 

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👌 There are a lot of parenting opinions out the 👌 There are a lot of parenting opinions out there. I try to ignore a lot of them. 😂 

My kids stay up later than most recommend, but so did I when I was a kid. 

She loves to read. She loves to write. Abby writes plays, journal entries, songs and on a bad day she will write her feelings about it all, in depth, no holds barred. 

This night she was trying to finish up a play - setting, character details, order of lines - for a play she made for her younger sister. 

I am so thankful that we can count her love of writing in her free time as school work. I am so thankful that how we do school allows this passion and talent to thrive. She has stacks of drawings, plays and writing blurbs. They are all precious to her.

There are days I question whether this choice or that choice is right or “approved,” but it does not matter when I see my children dive deep into the things they love. 

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Give me my people any day. Family time this Sund Give me my people any day. 

Family time this Sunday was a 5k fundraiser race. We helped raise 💵 for the spouses’ club scholarship fund. Scholarships will be awarded for post secondary education to military kids and spouses. 

If you can choose any action in life, choose to help others. Side bonus when it involves fun family time together.

Best day yet. 💛💛💛

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💛 Friday Introductions💛 It has been a while 💛 Friday Introductions💛

It has been a while since I did a good run-down here to give ya the cliffs notes (are those still a thing) version of me. 👋 

💛 Detroit-born a few blocks from where Eminem lived. The city is still my hometown despite moving away as a kid.

💛 I am a big believer in traditional values, but with a modern woman twist. My husband drives his career and I drive this household.

💛 We live in eastern NC 30 mins from the beach. I want to stay here forever, truly, but military life will come to an end some day...still don’t know specifically when that will be.

💛Born and raised to be a planner, Type A personality, having 4 kids beat that out of me 🤣 and I am very “day at a time” now. 

💛I was a teacher turned stay at home mom turned blogger turned entrepreneur that had to set it all on the back burner a bit to focus on homeschooling my kids. I can only have so much on my plate and complete it successfully. (When we listen, God guides and is loud and clear with His direction. 💛)

💛I believe I can be humble and confident; I can be fully present with my kids and make space to rest and rejuvenate; I believe the biggest successes I will achieve in life will not have a paycheck as its valuation. 

💛I believe that true peace, value and love all come from Jesus. 

You will find me sharing the ups AND the downs of motherhood, wife life, homeschooling and being a Christian woman with the modern day pull to fight what that can mean. (There is def a force trying to convince us to push those values aside, my friends.)

👌What is the cliffs notes version of you? What do you want people to know/realize most of all?

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🌟Teaching Kids to Make Friends🌟 Often our c 🌟Teaching Kids to Make Friends🌟

Often our children learn hard lessons when they have to move to a new state or school. 

My kids have become all too familiar with this through military life. Every three years they have to make new friends.

It is not always simple.

As a child, my family moved a lot. We were not military, but in junior high I moved to a new state and had to make all new friends.

This was a challenging and even to some extent a traumatic time of life.

Being the new kid, is a humbling experience. Suddenly you are hoping that your peers will want to get to know you and like you. It creates some self-consciousness.

Reading is such a beneficial way to teach children about life lessons. It teaches much more than that. It teaches self esteem through the cuddle time. It teaches language skills, and it teaches children to use their minds to be creative.

As they have grown and navigated more friendships, books are a resource for us to discuss tough challenges. I have found a great series of books that present friendship challenges and help children learn to navigate them.

It just so happens that the author is my neighbor too! How cool is that?! Moms are amazing.

These books will be treasured by your family for their quality values. The @stingrayjelly series teach children how to make friends and navigate friendships to love others well and support them through shared similarities and recognized differences.

Author, Lauren Giannella is a military wife and my neighbor! Anna Perdue is the illustrator and also a military child. 

Read my blog post for details on each book and links to purchase through @barnesandnoble 

We love our military community and all they do to give back.

What are your favorite children’s books that teach children how to make friends or help them maneuver through tough life challenges?

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