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.
Making a few simple substitutions to your diet can help you lose weight for good. In a world where most people are ready to jump on the bandwagon of every fad diet on the market, it seems a little too simple to think that making a few simple substitutions would actually help you lose weight. […] More
It’s Monday, which means that most of the world is experiencing the Monday blues (except for me today, because for the first time ever in our lives my husband has a bank holiday that means he doesn’t have to go to the office and BOTH of our kids have school and that equates to six […] More
As women we are offered a lot of advice regarding what we should do to make life better/improve our marriages/be better mothers or friends or wives or daughters; what we don’t hear a lot of is what we should stop doing to make our lives better. In fact, sometimes just telling us what to stop […] More
Your wedding was gorgeous, perfect and by far the best day of your life. Unfortunately, now it’s over and you’re left not with feelings of happiness that you had the best time, but feelings of sadness that suddenly it’s over. You spend a long time planning your wedding, and it makes sense that when you […] More
He’s amazing and wonderful and you are madly in love; unfortunately, your family and friends don’t like your new partner. They want you to have nothing to do with him. What are you to do when your family says they don’t like the guy you are crazy about? There are many instances in which a […] More
Maybe it’s the invention of texting and email and social media messaging that’s caused it, but many women now face a certain fear and feeling of anxiety when it comes to talking on the phone. Since so many prefer to speak via text or email anymore, phone conversations have become something scary. The anxiety a […] More
You might wish men knew more about women, but did you ever stop and think that maybe men wish women knew a bit more about them? Guess what; they do have this wish. Women are so bad about thinking they know everything there is to know about the opposite sex, especially what they’re thinking when […] More
One of the main reasons (the main reason?) women wear makeup is to look younger and more attractive. That’s why it might surprise – and horrify – you to realize that your makeup might actually age you, making you look older than you actually are. Since this is not the look you’re going for, you […] More
It’s that time of year again; the time of year in which we feel the overwhelming need to change our bad attitude into an attitude of gratitude. With the changing of the leaves (for some, we Floridians don’t know what that looks like) comes a change of heart. Suddenly, the holiday spirit fills our souls […] More
Commitment really does mean something. When you make a commitment to do something, to be somewhere or to help someone, you need to follow through to the end. There are few – and I mean very few – acceptable excuses for not seeing something through to the end; I’m talking death or illness level excuses. […] More
Enrolling a toddler in an educational program is a big decision, and it’s one that I used to feel very differently about. When my 5-year-old was born, I’d already been practicing the stay-at-home mom gig for 10 weeks after leaving my job. Several of my loved ones recommended that I enroll her in an educational-based […] More
In a recent conversation, it occurred to me that moms spend entirely too must time trying to justify their parenting decisions. It’s not because they don’t feel their decisions are right; it’s because they’re worried that the rest of us moms are going to judge them, deem them bad moms, turn our noses up. What […] More