Do You Choose To Be Frugal?
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce Saving money. Stretching the budget. Doing more with less. Recession. Unemployment. It doesn’t matter what you call it, more people are learning how to live with less money. It’s what everyone is talking about. In ways, my husband and I...
Guilt, a State of Being
Do you feel guilty as a mom? I do. I feel guilty for spending too much time working and not enough time with my kids. I feel guilty when I’m too tired to engage with my kids and would just rather sneak out onto the front porch with a glass of wine (or, if it was a...
Living Rich
I’m going to tell you a secret: I’m poor. According to every government statistic available, I live in near-poverty. My husband and I have been living on one income since two weeks before Parker was born and my doctor put me on bed rest. I initially planned on going...
25 Rules for Being a GOOD StepMom
Getting Real with Shadra Bruce I am very lucky to have been involved in the raising of five wonderful children, two of whom are my birth children (an 11-year old son and an 8-year old daughter) and three that I inherited by marrying their father, who retained custody...
Raising Teens? You Need This Book!
A dear friend of mine wrote this book. He spent several years working as an EMT, scraping kids off the ground who had been driving and drinking. The experience drove him to dedicate his life to trying to reach teens. He spends the school year traveling from school to...
Babysitter Blues
Finding a babysitter is tough. We have been spoiled. By the time we had Parker, Kira was almost 11 years old. By the time I was willing to leave Parker with a babysitter, Kira was not only old enough to babysit but someone who loved him as much as we did. Parker is...
Without a Microwave and Loving It
While we are not fanatical, we try to ensure that the kids (and us) take advantage of any minor changes in lifestyle and diet that we can to help promote health. We got rid of BPA plastic when the studies started showing that it posed danger and switched over to...
Cheering Up
Cheerleading was not a sport that I was remotely interested in when I was in high school. In fact, I had the mistaken impression that cheerleaders were giggly, shallow, and silly, as well as conceited. The fact that I was never the most graceful teenager did not help...
Breastfeeding is Not for Everyone
My sister was born to breastfeed. From her very first baby, she just had a knack with it. Of course, she’d always loved babies and had always been around them. She had (has) a natural calmness about her that I think must have helped. I grew up thinking I never wanted...
Quick and Easy Peanut Butter Cookies
These cookies are easy enough even little brothers and sisters can help out. All you need is: 1 cup Creamy Peanut Butter 1 cup Granulated White Sugar 1 egg When it comes time to bake, make sure to get mom’s help! Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Put all ingredients in...
Teenagers Are Just Older Toddlers
Teenagers don’t really come from another planet, although it sometimes seems like it. Really, though, they’re just doing what they did when they were in the terrible twos: they are trying very hard to establish their own individuality. Dave and I wrote...
Terrible Twos, Revisited
The terrible twos are real, for most parents. It’s a time when our little ones are trying very hard to establish some independence and assert their personalities for the first time. Dave and I wrote about our experiences with our terriblest two year old (Parker)...
Hotel Decisions That Stretch Your Vacation Dollars
Vacation. The very word sends little shivers of delight down my spine. Vacation is hard to come by when you work for yourself – when I’m not at my desk, working hard, no income is being generated. I don’t get paid vacations, so when I do get a chance to get away, I...
Leveling the Playing Field with MomPower
I have been both a stay at home mom and a corporate exec with kids. Each role had its advantages: I loved staying at home with my kids, being a full-time mommy, focusing exclusively on meeting their needs and finding satisfaction in raising healthy, happy kids. It was...Shadra Bruce, Owner and Founder of MomsGetReal
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