I received this as a forward from a friend, thought I'd share it with all of you moms and dads!  I think we'd all agree that no matter how tough this parenting job is, we wouldn't trade it for the world!  more...

Get Creative with Baby Booties, Pinecones & Silverwear Just look around your house, garage or basement for wonderful items to transform into holiday ornaments. The BudgetDecorator page reveals a host of ideas to give  more...

Are you tired of seeing your kid glued to a keyboard and hearing nothing but awful noise? Why don’t you pull out an old-fashioned board game? Who knows, they may like it! There is a bonus too: a game like Scrabble helps  more...

So if you hate the mess that paint makes, try this trick for when the kids are bored outside.  Give them paint brushes and choose a dark palate like a driveway or a deck.  Give kids a bowl of water and let them  more...

There's not much that irritiates me more during the summer months than deer and rabbit eating my plants that I've spent hours babying and growing. Of course, I also don't like to use harmful chemicals in my garden  more...

Since I'm always looking for new ways to go green, I was pleasently surprised when I went to my local garden center a few weeks ago and found a really cool new product for starting seeds called cow pots.  I'll  more...

Do you look forward to gardening every summer only to get frustrated when weeds take over your lawn and landscape beds? I'll be the first to admit - I really, really hate to pull weeds. I love gardening, but weeds can  more...