Budget Family Vacations by Exploring Your Own Backyard fuel, food and everything else this summer going up you may think you can’t afford to take your family on vacation. If you haven’t considered it before you should take a good look now because there are great family vacations right in your own backyard. We live in an amazing country with ...

*I only copied Monday's "kids eat free" promotion however I have the entire week's worth of promotion posted on my site. Kid’s Eat Free Eating out as a family can become very expensive. Fortunately, there are a few restaurants that offer promotions for family’s. Here is a list of restaurants that offer “kids ...

 Sounds like we were living parellel lives.  We had a large garden, raised our own meat, hung out our laundry, WALKED to just about everywhere and went into "town" about once a month for groceries.

 Going Green: Before it was cool For Earth Day I decided I would dedicate my blog momsfirststop.com to the person that taught me the most about recycling, reusing and re-purposing, my mother. The reason my mom had a black belt in recycling, reusing and re-purposing was not because she lived through the depression nor was it because ...