Today is the start of our Spring Break-so we are enjoying some free fun at a local county nature center. A children’s program on predators that includes a slide show, live presentation and craft. Do you have a nature center near you? Have you ever been? The Finch Hollow Nature Center in Binghamton has a… Keep Reading
FLIA: Hit the Park
Frugal Living in Action (FLIA) … Today for some frugal fun the kids and I rode our bikes down to the town park. Sure-it’s not a theme park or an expensive resort-but the wind in your hair is fun all the same! If we wanted to make a morning of it we would have brought… Keep Reading
Tropicana Juicy Rewards Program!
One of the cool things about being a blogger is all the programs I find out about that I must have missed otherwise. The Tropicana Juicy Rewards Program is like that-if I hadn’t been approached by Tropicana to be one of their “Juicy Insiders” I might have missed it! So what is the Juicy Rewards… Keep Reading
Frugal Summer Fun for Kids Part II
Ah summer! There are so many fantastic things for kids can do in the summer. As I talked about in in Frugal Summer Fun for Kids Part I the backyard can be a wonderful place full of inexpensive fun. . . . Until it rains and you all are stuck inside for a week. Or… Keep Reading
Best Of-Jello Jigglers Recipe, Fun, Frugal Junk Food
This is a best of repost from January of 2007. I am reposting it for inclusion in the final week of the “Frugal Food Series: Everything Else”. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Photo by Valerie Renee Well, Buddy has snack today at preschool, a fact that I totally forgot (despite having written it on our nice new calendar-as Yankee… Keep Reading
Birthday Fun and Games
This is it, the last installment of the Birthday Chronicles 🙂 I’m sure some of you are sick of hearing about Princess’s party by now. Seeing as this party was for 3-5 year olds, I didn’t feel the need for complex party games. I’ve been to parties that had very structured games for children this… Keep Reading
