Our house was built in the mid-seventies, and while it has a decent footprint for a family of five, it’s broken up into a lot of little rooms. Last summer, my husband demolished a wall between the office and a bedroom, turning my three foot by four foot office into a positively palatial space 15 feet by four and six feet.
My daughter turned six in May, and I was really excited to present her with her birthday gift – a bedroom makeover. She’s been bunking with her three-year-old sister while our 21-month-old had her own room. We moved the two little ones in together, and Kate got a room of her own.
Kate's Room Before
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Sarah Deveau’s first memory of saving up to buy something she really, really wanted was at age five, when she saved her allowance and birthday money for six months to buy a mini waterbed for her Cabbage Patch doll. She’s been in love with money every since; making it, spending it, and saving it too.
The author of two personal finance books, Money Smart Mom: Financially Fit Parenting, and Sink or Swim: Get Your Degree Without Drowning in Debt, Sarah’s work has also appeared in Today’s Parent magazine, the Calgary Herald, and other newspapers and magazines across Canada.
Shortly after her first daughter was born, Sarah opened her own business, an award-winning children’s consignment boutique in Airdrie, Alberta. But once daughters two and three came along, she closed her store to invest in a lakeside farmhouse on 40 acres in rural Nova Scotia. Sarah and her high school sweetheart husband plan to move east within the next ten years and semi-retire before the kids hit high school, made possible by the everyday money decisions they’re making now.
Whatever your financial goals, be it a vacation home, college savings for the kids, or getting out of debt and stop cringing at credit card statements, this blog is for you.
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