Tiffany Raiford

Tiffany Raiford is a lifelong Floridian, wife to my high school sweetheart and mother of four littles (two girls and boy/girl twins...no, they are not identical and yes, I'm sure). My kids love to whine, so I love to wine. My loves include nap time, bed time, date night, travel and evenings and weekends when my husband is home because he handles all diaper changes.

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in Inspiration

Struggling Parents Reading Letters From their Kids is Incredibly Moving

Parenting is a daily struggle and a daily gift. Only those who have kids understand how much time you spend feeling as if you did nothing right. You feel as if you aren’t putting in enough time for your kids. Perhaps you are working too hard so that you can provide them with a comfortable […] More
in Food and Drink

10 Really Strange Food Combinations that Taste Amazing

Pickles and ice cream; they make you think of a pregnant women whose husband runs out at 2 am to get these for her because she’s having a craving and he is so terrified she might kill him with her hormonal and crazed new personality loves her so much. If you look pas that whole […] More
in Pregnancy

10 Websites You Must Follow If You’re Having A Baby

“Pregnant.” It’s the one word that changes your entire life forever. It changes every single aspect of life as you know it, from what you eat and drink to what you drive, where you live, where you go, how you make decisions and even where you go on date night. Becoming a parent is the […] More
in Personal Finance

10 Reasons We Think Mom Bonuses Are Completely Justified

The mom bonus; it’s intriguing, and it’s hot right now. If you haven’t yet had the pleasure of hearing all about the mom bonus, let me let you in on the little secret that some wives are sharing with their friends. Or should we say, the little bonus that husbands are sharing with their wives? […] More
in Fashion

10 Fashion Mistakes Moms Always Make in the Summer

That moment when you have to climb into the third row of your entirely too large SUV to unbuckle your 4-year-old from her car seat because she has mysteriously lost the ability to do it herself: No big deal until you realize that you decided you just had to wear that adorable new sundress to […] More
in Parenting

Should I Make a Big Deal Out of My Kindergartner Graduating Kindergarten?

Graduations are a big deal in any household, but typically only when students graduate from high school and/or college. Even kids that graduate from VPK are celebrated more often than other graduates, but that leads me to discuss something that came up recently at our weekly dinner with our best friends. Their son graduated from […] More
in Entertainment

Guy Makes a Boring Day Look Extreme by Using a GoPro

If you’re a fan of scrolling through Pinterest, as so many of us are, you have undoubtedly seen the statement that the difference between and ordeal and adventure is your attitude, and that cannot be more true in life. The situations in which we find ourselves on a regular basis are either exceptionally exciting or […] More
in Home & Organizing

10 Affordable Ways to Protect Your Home While You’re Away

What’s more fun than vacation? Easy; coming home to a house that’s still standing and still filled with your belongings in their rightful locations. In a world filled with criminals and those with ulterior motives, it’s often difficult to understand that anything you say and do and post online can alert the wrong people that […] More
in Bath & Beauty

10 Beauty Products From Trader Joe’s That are Worth Trying Out

What I love most about Trader Joe’s – aside from their gorgeous Tulips – is the fact that how people view this store varies so significantly from coast to coast. When in southern California, residents visit this place for their very cheap items and their inexpensive wines. When in my home state of Florida, people […] More
in Inspiration

Chimpanzees Granted ‘legal persons’ Status to Defend their Rights in Court

Does a human being have the right to imprison two grown chimpanzees under their care so that they may use them for experimental aspects of their research, whatever that may be? According to US Supreme Court Justice Barbara Jaffe, two chimps being held in the care of Stony Brook University on Long Island – Hercules […] More
in Personal Finance

Strategies To Keep you Safe While Reading Financial Advice

Financial advice is good stuff, right? When someone tells you that you should do this or that or the other, you listen. Or you pretend to listen. Or you don’t listen at all and don’t make any excuses about the situation; whatever floats your boat, darlin’. But the truth of the matter is that some […] More
in Food and Drink

10 of the Most Common Cooking Mistakes You’re Definitely Making

Food Network star, I am not. I’m not even the next Food Network star (or the next, next, next Food Network Star). I’m not really a star of anything that goes along with food other than eating it and pinning really delicious photos of it on Pinterest. In fact, I just fed my kids McDonalds […] More

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