• Printables

    Cute Valentine’s Lunch Box Jokes for Kids

    Enjoy these cute Valentine’s Lunch Box Jokes for kids and brighten someone’s day. Alright, so let’s just assume that your kids will be back at school at some point in the next few weeks. I won’t get started on that entire kettle of fish, but if and when they return there will be school lunches again. So, here are some adorable Valentine’s Lunch Box Jokes to help celebrate Valentine’s Day. Check out these Valentine’s Day decorations from Amazon. Valentine’s Lunch Box Jokes These Valentine’s Day Lunch Box Jokes are entirely wholesome and can add a little hint of joy to…

  • parenting

    9 Reasons Why Life Needs a Yoast SEO Plugin

    This week I was resting in Savasana relaxation pose after my fitness class at the YMCA and my mind was wandering.  It’s been a busy, emotional season getting Ainsley registered for high school, and then there was the near concussion mishap for Payton. Too much time at the emergency room of a local hospital. Breathing and doing my corpse pose, my mind wandered. Had I done the right thing signing her up for high school nearby? Will she miss her friends too much? Will her older sister resent having her younger sister at the same school? Then too many clients…

  • family

    May That’s So Random Funny Blog Comments

    It’s almost June! What the what? How did that happen? We are almost halfway through a year. I need more time. I need more hours in my day. Where’s my pause button! On the flip side, it’s almost June which means Yeah for me it’s almost summer. I am a summer girl. It’s my jam. And if you know me at all then you also know random funny blog comments are also my jam. I enjoy reading through the whackadoo gibberish that pops up here from time to time because seriously why not? This is my May highlight real. A…

  • family

    It’s Time for the March Edition of That’s So Random Funny Comments

    OH MY GOODNESS where did March go? No idea. Anyways, here we go again. As you may know if you frequent this blog often I like to occasionally take stock and filter through my spam comments to see if any legitimate comments from you lovely readers got trapped in there. I do that once a month at least. Today I found three legitimate blog comments that are not spam so I approved them. YIPEE! See that’s like a little bit of gold hidden in the bottom of your old purse…the one with the lint and old gum. And the others,…

  • family

    That’s So Random Feature – Odd Blog Comments – January 2016 Second Edition

    Alrighty then! I started this feature very recently and it has been amusing to me, and readers have responded well to it too. But mostly it makes me laugh, so why not? I have decided to make it a monthly feature here at Thrifty Momma’s Tips. That’s right. That’s so random is my new feature sharing the strangest spam comments from readers and bots each month. To read ODD Blog Comments from 2015, you can visit my That’s So Random first edition post here. People who blog, write, or run a web site, are putting themselves out there every day.…

  • family

    That’s So Random – Odd Blog Comments

    Your comments are gold! Your comments are wonderful! They are magical and well thought out and they are evidence that you are highly intelligent and sophisticated life form. I love it when you share your smart brains and thoughts and words in comment form. It makes me happy. You might not always agree with me, and that’s fine, but you are reading and that’s the most important thing here. If you are also a blogger, then you know bloggers treasure comments. We often read each one. Prospective, and current clients, read them too. They are fuel that sometimes keeps us going.…

  • FASD - Health - Parenting - special needs

    It’s almost Back to School Time. Hold Me.

      shutterstock Is that the sound of my sanity snapping? I think it could be. Here I am ALMOST at the end of August. In denial? Sure. Freaking out? Absolutely. WHERE DID MY SUMMER GO? So here it is, almost back to school time. The most wonderful time of the year. Right? RIGHT?? You know that commercial with the “That Was Easy” theme. Press a button and send them back to school with new supplies and then do a little happy jig that summer is over. Well, I kind of wish they had a version of that for special needs…

  • infertility - Parenting

    Sperm Donor Comedy Fertile Ground: Delivery Man

    I was invited to see the Chicago Preview of Delivery Man, the movie featuring Vince Vaughn. while I was in Chicago for a blogging conference recently. These are my impressions of the movie. I mean is anyone ever really ready for parenthood? This movie Delivery Man takes that notion and turns it into comedy with an infertility theme too. Vince Vaughn delivers the funny in every movie he does. Delivery Man is no exception. For obvious reasons, given the themes of adoption and infertility that I often tackle here on my blog Thrifty Mommas Tips, I was really curious to…

  • family

    Mommy’s school board adventures

    This is the story of Mommy’s school board adventures. If you know me, you know I am an advocate and I use my voice for good whenever possible. So I have been gathering ideas on how best to use that locally to help adoptive families and those struggling with demands of special needs adoption. I mean it’s not always enough just to have a loving family. You have to also have a family of champions willing to stand up for you. Anyways enough serious stuff – this is the story of Mommy’s school board adventures. Ever have one of those…