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 Family

    Being a Big Sister Does Not Make you a Mother

    Big sisters are particularly cool – and I promise I’m not just saying that because I have been a big sister since my younger brother was born almost 29 years ago (I’m a bit biased, though). I have three little girls that are big sisters themselves. Our oldest, our middle and the girl from our […] More

  • in Nutrition

    5 Reasons Why MyFitnessPal is the Worst and Best Thing Ever

    My Fitness Pal is one of the best and worst apps on the market. It’s something I’ve used for years. I started using it when I was pregnant with our twins and couldn’t keep anything down. I needed to make sure I was getting enough calories in my body so I was tracking everything I […] More

  • in Health

    Why You Should Never Buy into the “Skinny is Better” Mentality

    Skinny: It’s an ugly word. Trim, fit, thin; they’re all much better. But you which word is the best word to describe a woman’s body? Healthy; because healthy encompasses so many beautiful things. Not all women are built to be ‘skinny’ and some will never be ‘skinny’ but that doesn’t mean they aren’t trim and […] More

  • in Parenting

    Five Types of Moms You Should Never Be Friends With

    As a mom, I find it difficult to advise anyone to ‘unfriend’ or ‘shun’ another mother. We all have the same issues, no matter how we choose to handle them. Parenting is a road often traveled but rarely navigated precisely and there are so many stops, detours and unexpected delays encountered along the way. Moms […] More

  • in Parenting

    My Child is Hitting Other Children and It’s Freaking Me Out

    Kids do the darnedest things; sometimes it’s cute and sometimes it’s not. And I think a lot of it has to do with the age and the perspective one has on the situation. For example, it might be cute when your brand new 1-year-old kisses you with her mouth wide open and her tongue out […] More

  • in Parenting

    My Kids Destroyed My Mornings but It’s OK, And Here’s Why

    Kids ruin everything; and parents will agree wholeheartedly. It doesn’t matter how amazing your kids and how much you love and enjoy them or the fact that you would literally do anything for them in the world. Those little people ruin everything from expensive furniture to expensive shoes to that $70,000 SUV you HAD to […] More

  • in Careers

    How Should You Prepare for an Upcoming Job Loss?

    Job loss can occur at any time, even though most of us like to think it will never happen to us, and it can be devastating to those who aren’t prepared. It can be devastating to those who are prepared, but certainly more so for those unprepared. While most of us are pretty off-kilter and […] More

  • in Personal Finance

    5 Key Mindset Principles to Master Your Money

    You know all those Pinterest quotes and sayings and those supremely positive and uplifting,” Choose happiness,” posts people use on social media all the time anymore? Well, as irritating as it might be to some to scroll through newsfeeds and photos and feel as if you’ve left Facebook and entered a world of early morning […] More

  • in How to Save Money

    How You Can Save Money Using a Balance Transfer

    Everyone has heard the terms ‘balance transfer’ but few people put much thought into it. Perhaps you’ve done it a few times and perhaps you understand the concept. Or maybe you don’t. On one hand, people with credit cards should not carry a balance so, therefore, a balance transfer should not be necessary. On the […] More

  • in Lifestyle

    The Struggles Only People Who Shower at Night Will Understand

    What you’re shower MO? Are you a nighttime shower-er or a morning shower-er? Do you prefer one over the other but engage in the opposite because of your schedule? Or are you like me and you shower both in the morning and again at night? I will be straight up honest with you right now; […] More

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