Brandy’s Life's Archives

Get a personal glimpse into the life of Brandy Ellen, a NH Mom Blogger, who is raising three kids the best she can while juggling work at home among other things. Brandy thrives best when surrounded by optimistic, positive lifestyle friends. Learn more about what she’s up to today by reading a bit of Brandy’s Life.

Road Rage: Are We all Really this Angry?

I am addicted to watching the local news as well as HLN on a week night basis, as far as television goes those are the most important things for me to watch. I am not big on keeping up with celebrities, I want to keep up with real life people. Lately one of the stories that keeps coming up is road rage, and I do not mean your racing and normal old school flip a person the finger road rage, I am talking extreme rage, violence behind the wheels that is causing pain to not only adults but to children as well. There was a hammer attack during a road rage situation in Brockton,  Massachusetts. What happened was there was a minor traffic incident where someone cut another person off …

Tired Eyes, Yawning Mouth and Added Weight

  It all starts at about 6:00pm … you start to get the little ones ready for bed. Dinner is done and now bath time has begun. You hope that they have lost some energy from the full day of outdoor play. You hope that tonight will be the night that you get more than two hours of sleep at a time or two hours of work done at a time. Tonight needs to be the night that these two boys sleep all night long because you fear if they don’t sleep tonight all night long, that you may not make it through another long day of lack of sleep symptoms, tired eyes, yawning mouth and added weight. The pressure is on. The boys sleep for three hours and you …

Live Well While Living Frugally

Guest post is brought to you by Nicole Bostic of DebtConsolidation.com Summer is upon us and with it the urge to buy new clothes for not just your newly diet trimmed self but the kids as well! Of course, for many women, clothing shopping is the quickest way to blow your monthly budget and fall off the financial independence train. But here are a few reminders/tips to help put your financial anxieties at ease and still live well while living frugally. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. One of the most common reasons for everyone’s seasonal impulse to buy right now is “spring cleaning.” Take advantage of everyone else’s purges and hit up your friends before you hit up the store. Whether it’s for you, the kids, or even …

Relationships like Parenting

I think of a relationship just like parenting, every day is a learning experience. You see I never really had my eyes wide open in a relationship, I didn’t expect perfect but I was guilty of really focusing on that imperfection that my partner showed. I am far from perfect myself, so why would I make such a huge deal about my partner doing things that irritate me? As we grow, each year we change as a person. Whether it is from education, experience or advice we all do grow internally and physically every single year. It would make sense that a relationship is much like parenting, a learning experience that we must not give up on. I admit, I am divorced, and so many followed along with that story, …

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