by Jamie Jeffers | Apr 3, 2017 | Large Family Life
If you’ve got a big family, you need to follow large family blogs full of advice and support. Here’s the perfect list with just what you need!
It’s a funny irony, but mothering a large family can be a lonely feeling.
It’s just not as popular as it once was to have a pile of kids. So finding people who can relate to your struggles can be…well, a struggle!
We sometimes hesitate to talk about our problems while raising large families.
Asking for advice or complaining when life gets hard feels like a privilege reserved for moms of 2.3 kids.
If you want an easy way to find your people, look no further than a large family blog.
It can be hard to find good quality blogs for big families. I’ll go out on a limb and say those Moms are probably so busy, they struggle to find time to blog.
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by Jamie Jeffers | Mar 31, 2017 | Ways We Saved This Week
Spring break! Which doesn’t mean a whole lot when you’re working on getting out of debt. The kids are off school and life is slow and simple. I love turning off the alarm clock for the whole week!
You could add “take a nice little trip during spring break” to the list of things I’d like to do once we’re debt free. But my list has gotten as long as Santa’s. Once we’re out of debt, we’ll prioritize the things we want the most from our lives. Until then, I’ll have fun in my little fantasy world! It gets me through the journey to debt freedom, so it’s fine by me.
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by Jamie Jeffers | Mar 29, 2017 | Debt
Inside: Wondering what it takes to get a paid off credit card? Here’s what our family did to claw out of debt and what we learned from our journey.
In early 2016, my Hubby and I sat down to set our family goals for the year, when we realized that our credit card debt was worse than we thought. In fact, it was so obnoxious that the best we could do was go round and round in circles. Pay down the balance… watch it go back up.
Too much of our money was going towards that debt, but somehow the balances never seemed to get any smaller.
Why should hundreds of our dollars be handed to a credit card company every single month for the privilege of…what? Owing more money? We weren’t getting anything out of this deal.
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by Jamie Jeffers | Mar 27, 2017 | Large Family Life, Recipe
These easy meals for large families are so easy that you’ll want them on your meal plan all month long! Simple, easy recipes to feed a crowd.
Trying to keep up with all the eating demands of a large family is exhausting!
You know meal planning would make it all easier… but feeding a large family on a tight budget seems intimidating.
Well, worry no more. I’ve compiled a list of easy meals for large families that our family of 8 loves!
And you’ll love them, too.
Here’s why:
Meal time is tough enough. The kids are fussy during that transition part of the day.
You’re tired of making decisions.
And you can’t help but wonder why you have to feed all of these people every.single.day. (You’re halfway kidding, of course!)
Well. This list of cheap meals for large families has some rules that make it all easier.
These recipes are all easy, affordable, and taste good so the kids don’t refuse to come to the table.
(Foods that most of them like, because pleasing everyone all the time is impossible. Not to mention that I have no desire to cater to every whim of my children.)
These recipes are a must for your large family home!
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by Jamie Jeffers | Mar 24, 2017 | Ways We Saved This Week
Even when you hold yourself accountable to saving money week after week, you’re going to have times when you fall off the wagon a bit. Some weeks are going to cost more than others. Sometimes life throws you curve balls.
And sometimes you don’t have a good reason for why you spent more than usual.
This would be one of those weeks. After we came back from our last minute road trip, we had a busy week planned. There were school fundraisers and events that I needed to take part in. I’m helping to begin a PTO for our school district from the ground up, and I know how much need there is in our small community. That increases my (perhaps self inflicted) obligation to take part in these fundraisers.
Finding a balance between giving and continuing our plan to pay off debt is going to be important in the coming months. The reality is, if I can continue to throw as much money at debt as possible, I’ll be able to give so much more once we’re debt free.
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by Jamie Jeffers | Mar 20, 2017 | Large Family Life
Moms of many kids have no choice but to find ways to calm the crazy. Learn how these large family mothering tricks make everything simpler (in a hurry).
Back when I only had two babies (16 months apart), I wasn’t any sort of pro at this whole large family mothering thing. I was just winging it.
At that stage, aren’t we all? I mean, you have a baby, the nurses help you out for a couple of days, and then…
they send you home without any grown ups to make sure you’re doing it right.
If you’re lucky, you have family members to lean on. (Or call every 20 minutes to ask what you should do next. Not that I’d do anything like that. Ahem.)
Eventually you’re able to get longer stretches of sleep. You might have more babies.
And after a while, something clicks.
You learn to let go of unimportant things, and cling tightly to ideas that are proven winners.
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by Jamie Jeffers | Mar 17, 2017 | Ways We Saved This Week
My Hubby got the call we’ve been anticipating for months late last week. After that, our weekend became a whirlwind of activity as I tried to get all the kids ready to sleepover at their grandparents’ house. They’d leave for school from there, so that added another layer of preparation to my work.
Meanwhile, Hubby and I drove two states away to attend a funeral. We packed a lot of emotions into that overnight trip.
We also tried to keep the trip on the frugal side.
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by Jamie Jeffers | Mar 15, 2017 | Debt
When you need to know how to get out of debt fast, you’ll need to do some crazy things! Here’s some ideas to get you started.
Being in debt is the worst! Back when we began our journey to get out of credit card debt, I couldn’t have imagined what it would look like. We’ve paid off half of our credit card debt now, and we’re knocking out the rest.
These days, we don’t like to spend much unless we decide that something is worth our money. That’s given way to some crazy ideas to get out of debt.
Now the word “crazy” is rather subjective. Some of you will read this list and say, “Nope. Too crazy for me. I’d never do these things.”
Others will read it and say, “Psssh. She didn’t once mention rinsing out generic Ziploc bags and reusing them. This list is dumb.”
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I'm Jamie, and I want to help you afford a beautiful life with your family. 
