Personal Finance and Lifestyle Guide
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.
Happy Halloween! Today is the big day in which the kids are celebrating by dressing up and coming home from school with a sugar high, you’re picking through their Halloween buckets for “Safety Reasons” (ie – to remove all bite sized snickers and reeses cups for yourself) and the doorbell won’t stop ringing. It’s a […] More
Furniture shopping should be fun, but for the most part it’s a tedious drag. When it comes to shopping for new furniture, you’re likely doing it because you’re remodeling, replacing something a child or animal destroyed or moving. This means you’re already stressed and irritated when you begin the furniture shopping process. Here are a […] More
Ah, the terrible twos. In our house, we simply refer to this age as the year in which we are really going to spend more time traveling – without the kids (like we can leave them for long periods of time without missing their behavior like crazy). The terrible twos are a stage in which […] More
Ever wonder who, out of all the people offering marriage advice to young couples and newlyweds, has the best actual marriage advice? Here’s an idea; the people who’ve been there and done that and messed it up so badly that they’re not even married anymore. Maybe you wouldn’t consider the marriage advice of a divorced […] More
When a marriage is in trouble you have two options; save your marriage or walk away from it. It always surprises me how many people are willing to simply walk away from their marriage for no other reason than it’s just not working anymore (and how many of those couples end up back together later […] More
Dads are a really special part of a child’s life. Dads have a special way of parenting that moms – try as they might – just can’t replicate (and moms, before you become offended let me clarify that there are certain things dads just can’t do that moms do, so no hard feelings, okay?). Dads […] More
Halloween is only two days away, which means the holiday season is officially here. We have one month until Thanksgiving and less than a month later it’s Christmas. What does this mean? It means we have to start making our lists – not just for gifts. Our lists for holiday meals; they’re not your typical […] More
Feeling down is not uncommon. Everyone has a day in which they just feel so down that the entire world feels against them. They feel they have nothing good going on, they’re not doing well enough or that they’re wasting their time and the clock just won’t stop ticking. It happens to the best of […] More
Backhanded compliments are the worst. Unfortunately, many of us are used to giving them without even realizing we do it. It’s not kind, it makes us look petty and it’s not something we should be proud of ourselves for doing. However, backhanded compliments come in so many shapes and sizes that it’s often difficult to […] More
If only there was a way we could make better use of our free time. Oh wait; that implies that we have free time at some point during our busy days. While it might not feel as if free time is abundant in your life, you’d be surprised just how much of it you actually […] More
School is a great place in which children are educated, they learn life lessons and they make new friends. They learn to work as a team, how to interact with others and how to foster friendships. However, school can also be a place in which you cannot keep an eye on your child at all […] More
Marriage is a difficult road to travel if you aren’t focused on it at all times. However, who actually has the time to focus on any particular road at all times. Most of us don’t even focus on the literal road half the time thanks to Bluetooth discussions, music changes and inappropriate texting while driving. […] More