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By: Vote For Financial Reflections at FMF! | Financial Reflections

Vote For Financial Reflections at FMF! | Financial Reflections — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:33:02 +0000

[...] was kind enough to accept my entry What Makes Kids Happy as an entry and today it is in the second round of the competition. Thanks to everyone who [...]

By: FFB

FFB — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:40:17 +0000

Definitely is the quality time you spend and not the money. I think we all get caught up and forget how much fun a kid can have just running around, using their imagination. Doing something doesn’t mean spending something.

I might have to bring my daughter out to the batting cages this spring!

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Vote For Financial Reflections! | Financial Reflections — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:03:27 +0000

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Moments of Fame « Funny about Money — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:09:35 +0000

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Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:51:24 +0000

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2paupers » Blog Archive » Carnival of Living Cheaply - August — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:39:44 +0000

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» Summertime Savings Kids Make Money — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:46:26 +0000

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By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:00:40 +0000

Great post! Thanks for the submission to my blog carnival, too.

By: Nic

Nic — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:48:17 +0000

My son’s memories make my heart bleed … because he remembers me laying on the floor building lego towns and reading comic books on the patio (it was hot, we took his matress out there to “camp”) chasing him through the water while throwing seaweed at one another … and racing hot wheels from one end of the kitchen to the other and having a chess game set up on our coffee table for days so that we could walk by and make a move and smirk a “check” to one another and letting him “cook” dinner for me … oy

Those are the kinds of things he remembers. And loves. And bless my grandchildren because he’s going to be a kickass dad when he does decide to make babies. Because he realizes that it was the time we spent together that mattered. It wasn’t the latest and greatest video game. Or the stereo in his room. Or the shoes and jeans that he begged me to buy … or anything else.

Small moments matter. Make the most of them!

<3
Nic

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Vote for this article at blogengage.com — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:27:02 +0000

What Makes Kids Happy?…

Sometimes, what makes our kids the happiest isn’t the most expensive thing, at least in terms of money. Here’s a story about a father who found a connection with his youngest child over a bucket of heavily used golf balls. The capital we expend wit…