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Money Savin' Mama: Discussing finance instead of hand bags
At a garage sale this month, several of my friends were inspecting a purse, trying to determine if it was “real.”
RELATED CONTENTDeep Roots: Fargo Garden Society marks 90 years in community
FARGO - When Linda Bellemare joined the Fargo Garden Society in 1975, some ladies still wore white gloves to its meetings. It was a society founded by suit-wearing businessmen in 1923. The group’s early iris and peony shows included beauty contests for the Iris Queen and Peony Princess.
RELATED CONTENTA vulnerable time: Widows need to guard against ‘financial wolves’
FARGO - Beth Schaible was a young mother when she first faced the possibility of widowhood. Her husband, Calvin, was diagnosed with skin cancer in his 30s. Doctors gave him 50/50 odds, she says. He survived, but the scare helped the Fargo couple stay connected and communicate about the “what ifs” in life, including their financial picture.
RELATED CONTENTThree Moorhead High seniors create an event to empower girls and promote self-esteem
MOORHEAD – Over ice cream, best friends Olivia Bergh, Ama Frederickson and Annise Montplaisir would talk about self-esteem in girls – how girls dress or act a certain way to get attention and about the time Montplaisir saw a girl walk into the bathroom, look in a mirror, and say “ew.”
RELATED CONTENTParenting Perspectives: Keeping an open heart in the midst of rejection
My husband, Craig, is ready to leave for work, but can’t quite shake the 24-pound weight clinging to his ankles. Once again, I peel little Owen off his “Da Da,” to screams and shrieks and slaps.
RELATED CONTENTMother and daughter enroll in massage therapy program together
MOORHEAD - Lori Ganey and her oldest daughter, Christina Harness, moved to North Dakota at different times and for different reasons, but they’ve found their next step forward in the same place, at the same time. The mother-daughter duo both started in the massage therapy program at Globe University in Moorhead this January.
RELATED CONTENTEngaging and approachable: Mentoring, finding solutions a large part of Karen Tobin’s influence as Fargo’s Sanford Medical Center COO
FARGO - Karen Tobin’s mother told her not to take home economics in high school. They could cover that at home. Instead, she encouraged Tobin to study foreign languages.
RELATED CONTENT5 Things Friday: Five May Day crafts to do with kids
FARGO – With a winter that stretched well into April, this may be the most eagerly anticipated May Day in history.
RELATED CONTENTMoney Savin' Mama: Don’t let your tech wants become expensive ‘needs’
I’ve always been behind the technological curve. My family didn’t own a VCR until 1991. I listened to cassette tapes into the mid ’90s. I didn’t have cable TV or a DVD player till college, or my own computer until 2004.
RELATED CONTENTThursday review: Turbie Twist a nifty way to dry your hair 
FARGO – I don’t like to blowdry my hair, so The Original Turbie Twist Super-Absorbent Hair Towel box called to me. “Less blow drying!” it promised. “Stays in place!”
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Parenting Perspectives: Slow down, sweet toddler
‘Mommy, please I have fruit snack?” my 2-year-old daughter asked me so sweetly the other morning. It was 7 a.m. “No, honey, you can’t have fruit snacks before breakfast,” I told her.
RELATED CONTENTParenting Perspectives: Movie’s mom confessions hit home
It’s a good thing movie theaters are dark, because I’m not sure the trio of single girls next to me would have understood the tears flowing down my face while watching “Sex and the City 2.”
RELATED CONTENTParenting Perspectives: Stroll a little slower
My daughter, Eve, and I went for a walk last week on one of those cloudless, warm mornings that finally felt like spring.
Parenting Perspectives: Cocky mother humbled by 2-year-old’s behavior
Compared with some other 2-year-olds, my daughter tends to be pretty well-behaved.
RELATED CONTENTParenting Perspectives: Who knew toddler’s day planner could fill up so quickly?
My daughter’s not quite 2, but already she knows the days of the week.
RELATED CONTENTRetail employees share Black Friday war stories
The day after Thanksgiving, Colleen Flynn-Odney simply tells new Target employees to stand back and watch.
RELATED CONTENTParenting Perspectives: Baby is a target for uncouth comments
I was grabbing a carton of milk from the cooler at Cash Wise earlier this month when the gray-haired woman stormed over to me.
RELATED CONTENTParenting Perspectives: Facebook friend(s): ‘We’re pregnant’
Forget post-World War II. I’m living in a baby boom now.
RELATED CONTENTRichards: Mothers too often go on an unnecessary guilt trip
When women begin the journey into motherhood, we inevitably book a concurrent voyage: the guilt trip.
RELATED CONTENTParenting: Mom’s on a mission for baby bargains
My mom taught me to be frugal by clipping coupons and shopping at the Nearly Nu thrift store. I once watched her successfully bargain with a department store clerk to get the previous week’s sale price on a pair of shoes.
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