Where to Find Frugality in the Making
Blog URL: http://frugalityinthemaking.blogspot.com/
Category: Money, Home, Family

Frugality in the Making

Frugality in the Making is a blog all about saving money. The author is really an expert at using coupons and keeping all of her discounts and coupon related items organized. After all, clipping coupons is worthless if you can’t find them when you need them. There are also plenty of articles on other sorts of discounts, special offers and ways to save money.

Frugality in the Making – Why You Should Go

This is a great site for anyone who wants to save money. You’ll find lots of links to discounts, and articles to help you make the most of your discounts. I love the link to a place where you can buy coupons from the Sunday papers. It allows you to buy the coupons you need for about three cents each, rather than paying for the Sunday paper and getting all those coupons you won’t use.

Summing Up Frugality in the Making

Great website for anyone looking for ways to save money on things you buy anyway. There are also lots of great articles about making the most of those coupons, such as practical ways to organize them.

Go here to check out Frugality in the Making.

Mary Ward
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Where to Find Mrs. Moneysaver
Blog URL - http://www.mrsmoneysaver.com/
Category: Money, Family, Home

Mrs. Moneysaver

Mrs. Moneysaver is a website dedicated to living frugally. The site’s author, Dana Adams, is a stay at home mom who, like many other moms, have had to learn to live on less in order to stay at home with her children. She looks for deals and passes them on to her readers.

Mrs. Moneysaver – Why You Should Go

Who doesn’t love to save money? This site is a great way to keep up on deals and find ways to cut costs in your own home. You’ll also find direction to other sites that offer advice on saving money, cutting household expenses and living well on less.

Summing Up Mrs. Moneysaver

Deals and savings on all types of products from groceries to electronics. Plenty of useful information to help you save money on the things you need and the things you want, as well as advice and tips on simply living well with less money. The author helps you focus on the rewards you gain by having more time with your family as opposed to having more money to spend. There are also lots of helpful links to other savings websites.

Go here to check out Mrs. Moneysaver.

Mary Ward
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Where to find Wife of a Wounded Marine
URL: http://beingthewifeofawoundedmarine.blogspot.com/
Category: Family, Personal Interest, Personal Blogs

Wife of a Wounded Marine

This is the blog of Karie, a woman whose husband was wounded in Iraq just three months after they were married. She shares the struggles of coping with a recovering husband who has had both physical and emotional challenges since his tour in Iraq. Karie brings an interesting perspective on the war and how military families cope.

Wife of a Wounded Marine– Why You Should Go

Karie’s perspective reminds us that it is not just the soldiers that are affected by war, but that entire families feel the strain of dealing with the aftermath of war, particularly when soldiers are wounded. Her Friday Faces of War column is particularly interesting.  Throughout the blog, Karie shares the challenges and triumphs of a life not quite what she’d envisioned, and remains brutally and commendably honest and open.

Summing Up Wife of a Wounded Marine

Other military families will particularly like this blog, as they’ll find it easy to relate to Karie’s struggles. But the site is great for all of us, as we can see firsthand how our soldiers and their families cope with the life changes brought on by war.

Go here to check out Wife of a Wounded Marine.

Mary Ward
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Where to Find Radical Parenting
Blog URL:http://www.radicalparenting.com/
Category: Family, Parenting, Children

Radical Parenting

Radical Parenting is a website written about parenting from the teen and tween perspective. The writers of the blog are teens and tweens, many of whom write anonymously, about creating better relationships between kids and parents.

Radical Parenting – Why You Should Go

As a parent, this blog is extremely interesting; as it gives you insight you could probably not get from your own child, but which you can use to improve your relationship with your own child.There are lots of great articles and programs here for parents and for kids. You’ll find tips on talking to your kids about drugs, sex, online behavior, bullying and more. And, you’ll get good insight into how kids feel about these things and how you can talk about important issues openly and honestly.

Summing Up Radical Parenting

Radical Parenting is a website, written by teens and young adults, about parenting from a kid’s perspective. Lots of useful information about how kids view the world and tips on ways to talk to your kids about sensitive subjects. This site gives parents of teens hope that kids really do want to have a good relationship with them.

Go here to check out Radical Parenting.

Mary Ward
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Where to Find Thrifty Fun
Blog URL: http://www.thriftyfun.com/
Category: Home, Family, Pets

Thrifty Fun

Thrifty Fun is a website dedicated to home life. You’ll find lots of information for people with children, people with pets and all things home related.

Thrifty Fun – Why You Should Go

There’s something for everybody on this website. There are photography contests for pictures of pets, information on how to make great, inexpensive homemade Halloween costumes and recipes for foods usually readily available fall ingredients, like apples and pumpkins. There are contests, ideas for activities with your kids and simple gardening tips and techniques. This is one website you’ll want to bookmark for all the different areas of everyday life that it addresses. You can also post questions on the site, making it a great place for discussing all matters of home life. Ideas on the site are designed to be budget friendly, hence the site’s name.

Summing Up Thrifty Fun

Great for families, the kind of site you might make your homepage because there are so many interesting things there you’d want to check it out every day.

Go here to check out Thrifty Fun.

Mary Ward
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Where to Find His Boys Can Swim
Blog URL:http://www.hisboyscanswim.com/
Category: Pregnancy, Parenting, Children

His Boys Can Swim

His Boys Can Swim is a pregnancy blog created by an ordinary couple who find themselves pregnant a couple of years before they’d planned.

His Boys Can Swim – Why You Should Go

The couple, referring to themselves as Tarzan and Jane, give readers a front row seat into their pregnancy adventure. As of this writing, the baby is here, and Mom and Dad continue to blog about the joys and trials of parenting an infant.  This is a good blog for other expectant couples who might want to compare their experiences with those of Tarzan and Jane and who enjoy the commiseration and support of another couple in the same boat.

Summing Up His Boys Can Swim

His Boys Can Swim is a candid and humorous blog about pregnancy from the perspective of an ordinary couple who weren’t really planning such an adventure just yet.

Go here to check out His Boys Can Swim.

Mary Ward
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Where to Find Cooking By The Seat Of My Pants:
Blog URL: http://www.cookingbytheseatofmypants.com/
Category: Food, Cooking, Entertainment

Cooking By The Seat Of My Pants

The name of this blog drew me in the first time I saw it. What does that mean—Cooking by the seat of my pants? Basically, it means cooking the way I think most of us do, if not at first, eventually…just like blogger Jerry Russell did.

Cooking By The Seat Of My Pants - Why You Should Go

We’ve covered a lot of cooking and food blogs here at Digg It, but none of them quite like this one. Most of the blogs that we’ve covered, as most cooking blogs are, have been either blogs of professional cooks and chefs or blogs by everyday cooks who do things very much by the book. Not so with Jerry’s blog.

Jerry Russell is, as he says, “cooking by the seat of his pants.” Which simply means he’s tossed aside the cookbooks, the rules, the ‘must-do’s’ and ‘can’t do’s’ and has made cooking an adventure, mixing and matching and creating new combinations and fly-by-the-seat recipes as he goes. The results are usually mouth- and eye-watering, but as Jerry (a web-designer and pro blogger by technical profession) says, sometimes the results are only “so-so” and sometimes down-right disastrous; but every experience is a learning experience, and it all makes for good blogging, either for the food and taste value, the room-for-improvement value, or just the laughs at Jerry’s expense.

“Cooking by the Seat of My pants is more than just a really catchy name for a food blog. (Well, I think it’s pretty catchy.) It’s the way I cook. I rarely use a recipe, and if I do, I blatantly neglect to follow it once I get going. I just fly through the kitchen by the seat of my pants and cook for the sheer unadulterated pleasure it gives me…

…Cooking should be fun. It should be an adventure, and the best part of that adventure is sharing. Since I can’t invite the whole world for supper, and because I have no interest at all in returning to the world of the professional cook, this is my way of sharing.”

Summing Up Cooking By The Seat Of My Pants

Jerry Russell has taken a much less structured approach to his cooking, and one that feels much more ‘normal’ than many elite cooking blogs. His is more like cooking for those of us in the real world, all the while being also something of a permission slip to let yourself go, experiment, and enjoy your food and make it fun.

Go here to check out Cooking By The Seat Of My Pants.

*By the way—Jerry’s wife, currently serving in the U.S. Air Force, has recently been deployed overseas. He shares these challenges as well in his personal stories. Our respect and gratitude to Jerry, his wife, and family for their service and sacrifice.

Mary Ward
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Where to Find Black And Married With Kids:
Blog URL: http://blackandmarriedwithkids.com/
Category: Relationships, Parenting, Family

Black And Married With Kids

Bloggers seem to be very good at naming their blogs in quite self-explanatory ways; this is another blog where the name says it all, or at least most of it. This is a blog dealing with both the everyday issues and unique challenges that marriage, culture, parenting and children, and achieving the home-work balance can create.

Black And Married With Kids - Why You Should Go

Black and Married With Kids is the work of Lamar and Ronnie Tyler, a professional couple living and working and raising their family of four children in the Washington, DC, USA area. Their blog is focused quite heavily on all of the issues that impact a marriage, and also takes a wider world view into areas of interest. Ronnie and Lamar describe it as a place where they

“…share our opinions and points of view on relationships, parenting, politics, current events and anything in between.”

For readers, the multiple award-winning blog has become a place for insight, growth, inspiration, discussion, advice, and much more. The Tylers work hard to make this a community blog where topics are discussed rather than preached, opening up the blog as a sort of forum with each post, but most specifically with their category, Dear BMWK.

Summing Up Black And Married With Kids

Black and Married With Kids is a place of insight which takes on the always complex issue of parenting and maintaining healthy relationships. It’s no short order, but this couple has managed to build a place where real life meets the media world, and continues to work hard to lend advice and support to readers facing the triumphs and challenges of married life and raising children in a seemingly ever-changing landscape.

Go here to check out Black And Married With Kids.

Mary Ward
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Where to Find A Dash Of Salty:
Blog URL: http://saltyweeks.blogspot.com/
Category: Personal Interests, Hobbies, Family

A Dash Of Salty

Some men just seem to know what’s important in life—and Jeffrey Weeks, in my book, is one of them. His blog is evidence of that.

A Dash Of Salty - Why You Should Go

A Dash of Salty is Jeffrey’s blog about everything that matters to him—family, food, and fun seems a fitting summary. Jeffrey blogs from the shores of North Carolina in the States, where he talks about his saltwater fishing adventures, his home, family, garden, movies, and entertainment. Along the way he treats us to delicious recipes (primarily for his seafood fare) and tempting pictures—not just of the food, but of just about everything that is going on in his life and on the blog.

Jeffrey’s version of the blog’s summary:

“Posts on saltwater fishing, popular entertainment, sports, gardening, the world at large, and the family at hand.”

Summing Up A Dash Of Salty

Jeffrey Weeks seems to have struck a most harmonious balance in life. His blog is entertaining, interesting, and in many ways relaxing, as there is something quite comforting about knowing that there are people out there who just simply “get it”—life, that is.

Go here to check out A Dash of Salty.

Mary Ward
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Where to Find Nona Nita’s Grandparenting Blog:
Blog URL: http://blog.nonanitasnook.com/
Category: Parenting, Grandparenting, Lifestyles

Nona Nita’s Grandparenting Blog

Talk to any grandparent and they will tell you that having grandchildren is one of the most precious gifts of all. However, connecting with children born generations apart can often prove a challenge. Nona Nita is aiming to change that.

Nona Nita’s Grandparenting Blog - Why You Should Go

Nona Nita knows children. She has raised two of her own and has made teaching her profession, and has been blessed with grandchildren as well. To Nona, children are a gift to be treasured.

Her blog has been designed to help grandparents remain active in the lives of their grandchildren, despite any hurdles like time and distance. Her goal is to provide resources for grandparents and others in an effort to inspire “enlightened grandparenting” for the modern grandparent to help them better connect and spend quality time with their grandchildren. She describes her blog as a…

“Blog hosted by a grandparent and teacher to share the joys and bumps of modern, enlightened grandparenting. Blog focuses on issues, activities and experiences of interest to grandparenting.”

Summing Up Nona Nita’s Grandparenting Blog

Nona Nita is delivering a high-quality resource to ensure that grandparents have the tools and resources they need to stay connected and involved in the lives of their children and grandchildren. She understands the important place that grandparents hold, and works hard to help them continue to make a difference in the lives of children young and old.

Go here to check out Nona Nita’s Grandparenting Blog.

Mary Ward
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