It’s time to start living on a budget that works for your family. Make smart financial choices to avoid getting into debt, cut down costs, save money, and stretch a paycheck without constantly taking loans. Quickly assess your financial situation, and create a family budget with our step-by-step guidelines. Table of contents: What Is a Family Budget? What Does a Family Budget Include? Why Should You Have a Family Budget?…
Netta is truly a super mom. She and I have known each other since her son and our youngest daughter were in Kindergarten. Truth be told, Zachary actually had a “Kindergarten crush” on Sydney ???? I knew she had a high-powered corporate job and I knew she was extremely busy not just at Goldman Sachs where she was VP of Marketing, but also as a mom of three children. Her…
As you may or may not know, for the past two years, I have been making a career transition from marketing to occupational therapy. It’s taking a bit of time because in order to even apply to graduate school for occupational therapy, I had to take and complete six science and psychology pre-requisite courses. Although long, it’s gone pretty quickly — I can’t believe it’s been almost two years since I…
Since we moved into our own apartment with our own washer/dryer four years ago, I’ve always used cold water to launder our clothes. Washing in cold water saves energy, maintains our clothes colors and prevents shrinking! At a recent Momtrends event, Nicole Feliciano introduced an exclusive group of influencers to Tide Coldwater. Tide has a goal to convert 70% of all wash loads worldwide to cold by 2020. Won’t you…
So, I haven’t written in a long time and that’s because we’ve got school on the brain. Between the school year starting, me being in school part-time and our newly-minted teenager going through the NYC public high school application process, my time has been very limited. Make sure to scroll down for the discount code for High School 411, a service that helps NYC parents navigate the public high school…
Meet American Girl’s new line of five characters, called the WellieWishers: Ashlyn, Camille, Emerson, Kendall and Willa. This new line is created for the younger girls, ages 5 to 7 years old as they develop social and emotional skills like empathy, compassion and thoughfulness. The WellieWishers also have early chapter books (sold separately) that teach life lessons on sharing, cooperation, respecting feelings and just being a good friend. I attended…
Since I started this new journey of going back to school, my days and weeks have been so different and fractured, but I try to keep somewhat of a schedule for my sanity and my family’s. I start out my week still working as Chief Kidfresh Mom, doing their marketing at Kidfresh HQ here in New York City, still wanting to keep the social media/marketing so-called pilot light on while…
Could you believe Halloween is this weekend? How did that happen. If you still need plans to show off your Halloween costume, The Bronx Zoo’s Boo at the Zoo has ton of fall favorite activities for you to choose from. There’s pumpkin flavored treats, apple picking, and of course, the amazing costume parade. Boo at the Zoo is THE destination for family friendly fun for Halloween. You can wear…
I initially started this blog back in 2009, when I took a social media class when I was a candidate for a Master’s of Science in Integrated Marketing at New York University. It was one of our social media projects and loved how engaging and “new” this whole blogging business was. My blog was originally called “Diaper District” because at the time, I was a mom of two very young kids…
School has started but the fun and learning doesn’t stop at the classroom; it continues at the Bronx Zoo! With the cooler weather comes breathtaking scenery and more active and engaged animals — truly the best time of year to go to the Bronx Zoo! What makes it even better is that there’s a slew of Bronx Zoo harvest festival activities that are perfect for the whole family. I am…