Better on a Budget Mama

Kids and budgeting. Budgeting and kids.  The two really should go hand in hand. So why don't more of us involve kids in the family budget?   Why have so many of us grown  up without having been taught how to create, and live by, a budget?   Whatever the reason(s), there is good news! We can easily fix this in our families. We can change our children's futures for the better by teaching them this essential skill! It is truly a lot of fun to involve kids in the family budget! Wanna know where to start? Let's look at some simple things we can do: Pay your child(ren).  Different families have different opinions on how to do this. Some prefer to have the allowance be just that, an allowance that is given without conditions. Others like the idea of paying kids after they've done something (chores, usually) to earn that money. I say pick what works best for your family! I've done it both ways, and I personally prefer to allow my kids the opportunity to earn the

Since discovering that I couldn't ever eat gluten again, I've tried a few gluten free bread recipes. I had so many failures, and got so frustrated, that I accepted that I just wouldn't be able to make a homemade bread ever again....and I didn't attempt for nearly a year. I found a recipe (through  Pinterest , of course) for Udi's copy-cat bread, and I pinned it, but I still didn't want to try it...those alternative flours are expensive and I hate experimenting and failing when using them! So, the recipe sat on my boards, looking pretty, but untried. Then I decided it was time to actually TRY some of the recipes I'd pinned, and I knew I could no longer put this off.   Let me just say, I'm SO glad I tried one last time to make a gluten free bread. I literally started to cry (YES, CRY) when I bit into this, because I was so happy. I didn't think I'd ever eat any kind of bread again EVER, and this, my friends, was an experiment