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SnapChat Flashback Nov 9-10 2015

52 WEEK MONEY CHALLENGE 

For the past few years, I’ve been doing the 52 Week Money Challenge but in reverse.  Which means instead of banking $1 on week 1, I do $52 in week 1.  The main reason for doing this is because at the end of the year I have tons of birthdays along with the holidays, it’s virtually impossible to save during this time. I decided it would be much easier to start with the bulk of the savings in the beginning of the year.  Since making this decision, it has really made the challenge easier!  The great thing about this challenge is you end up with extra money you’ve been stashing away & end the year feeling proud of that accomplishment.

If you’d like to try the challenge in reverse, I designed a FREE PDF you can use year after year.  

 

 

LAZY GIRLS APPLE DUMP DESSERT

One of the easiest things I make is this killer APPLE DUMP PIE that I show on my SnapChat turned into Vlog on my YouTube Channel! Not only is it easy but it’s also very versatile and can be used with whatever canned fruit you desire! 

 

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CRAFTING GOODIES 

The website I purchase things from frequently is called Blitsy! They have awesome sales!  I’ve been shopping on their site for years & am always happy with their sales, products & speedy shipping.  During my SnapChat, I purchased these adorable Stamping Bella stamps. Sign up for Blitsy’s newsletter to be notified of  their newest items for sale! 

If you have any recipes, links or favorite things you’d like to share, let me know in the comments section below!  As always, thanks for stopping by! 

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Work Life Balance

All throughout adulthood, I have struggled with finding the right balance between work & life. As my career took off & our family expanded, maintaining balance proved to be extremely difficult! Over the last decade, the scale has almost always been heavier on one side more then the other.

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With our first child, both my husband & I held full time jobs. Financially, it wasn’t feasible for me to stay home.  I was fortunate that we were stationed at home in Hawaii & I had my grandmother to help babysit but sadly I missed out on a lot of my oldest son’s milestones. Work took up a lot of my time in my twenties.  

When we had my two younger children, we were stationed in an area where we knew no one & family baby sitting wasn’t an option. If I continued to work, my entire paycheck would have gone to a babysitter & so we decided to make some sacrifices so I could stay home with the kids.  Once my younger two were in elementary, I started to get back into the work force, the scales weighed heavily toward family life.  I made sure to plan my therapy practice around their school & extra curricular activities. As they got bigger and didn’t need me as much, I was able to take on more hours & my business started to boom.  Such a double edge sword. I loved my practice, wanted to excel & to grow but all the work it took to continue forward momentum meant cutting into family time.  Again the scales were off balance.  In 2015 I have hustled to get my life more in sync with giving almost equal time to both work & family.  

Daily I speak to women about this exact same struggle.  This problem plagues not only working moms but also SAHM’s as well. This constant battle can be so exhausting & while I hear what’s broken, I also hear the underlying theme of being overwhelmed & at a loss for how to remedy. I firmly believe in order to fix something, you have to know what’s broken, why it’s broken & what’s holding you back.  In order to do so, I’ve come up with a worksheet to map out your own work/life balance!  I’d love to share it with you. Just click the box below!

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-Nadine

 

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