When gift giving during a financial crisis or anytime, look past how much you can spend and figure out what you can do. There are many gifts of time that can be meaningful in addition to simple gifts and handmade gifts. With Christmas over, I was thinking back at the many Christmases over the years. [...]

The kids just left. We had a great Thanksgiving. It was the first one that I had everyone bring something. The kids have more money and time than I do anyways! It was a blessing not only at checkout time at the grocery store, it was also less work and stress getting everything ready. I [...]

I was looking in my refrigerator today…it has food in it! Nothing fancy, just the basics like leftover chicken, milk, margarine, cheese, etc. I felt SO very thankful. There is even a large container of cheap coffee in the freezer, small packages of meat, and our recent treat….ice cream! It was on sale and we [...]