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Alternatives to PayPal for Bloggers

January 19, 2013 by Jules Leave a Comment

Today, I bring you a guest post from Michele from The Mommy Blogger. I know there are several other mommy blogger out there reading this and may need some advise from someone who knows a lot more than I do about this thing called blogging. So here's some alternatives to PayPal for my Bloggy friends!

Alternatives to PayPal for Bloggers

PayPal is certainly a popular way to "pay and get paid" on the internet today. There are some wonderful benefits to this service but they also tend to have a fairly high number of customer service related complaints. So if you are a blogger looking to add a payment service to your blog then you may want to consider one of the other options mentioned below.

Checkout This is a payment service provided by Amazon that can only be used if you are selling actually goods. In other words, it cannot be used for services or donations. This service is very user-friendly and costs almost nothing. Users only have to pay when a purchase has been made and the fee is small. In addition, they have excellent security settings.

WePay This service is often preferred because customers do not need to create an account or register to use it. Credit card or bank account payments can be made directly through this very easy to use system. WePay will also create a web page to add onto an existing site with relevant payment information which makes it easy for bloggers and customers alike.

Advantage is a merchant provider where you can apply even if you have a high risk business. And you can get the attachment for your iPhone or iPad if you sell something in person.

Paymentech This is a service offered by Chase that allows users to make payments from any computer or mobile device. No contract is required when signing up for Paymentech which is appealing to many bloggers. There is no annual fee and they also offer a bonus of twenty five gift cards to be awarded to customers. It offers more options than the two aforementioned services.

NOTE:

The links attached to this post are backed by Michele and are not necessarily backed by me. I use PayPal and have had no problems and do not use any of the other mentioned options nor am I an affiliate with any of them.
I agreed to post this as a part of a guest post exchange via The Mommy Blogger Directory and chose to because I thought her post could be helpful to bloggers reading here at as Jules is going.

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Find a Way to Play Together!

January 18, 2013 by Jules 2 Comments

Matt and I are so thankful to PBS's Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood and this awesome song we use almost daily with our kids to resolve fights:

Watch Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Find a Way to Play Together on PBS. See more from pbs.

Filed Under: Parenting, The ones about the Rothacher Home

Beef & Veggie Stew

January 17, 2013 by Jules Leave a Comment

So our Arkansas winter went from 60'+ to snowing overnight. I'm constantly amazed my family isn't sick more often! When the weather turned frigged and there was not stank'n way I was heading out in it for groceries I was forced to hunt in the pantry, fridge, and deep freeze for what kind of heartiness I was going to feed my family. I know, 1st world problems, right!?

All of a sudden I had a hankering for some stew! I'd never made stew before and always thought you had to have fancy {expensive} stew meet to make it...then I realized that was crazy talk. That had never stopped me before. I then Googled {like every pro does} in search of a beef stew recipe I could tweek. I looked at several and realized I had the building blocks for a good stew already. SCORE! Here's what I came up with.

Beef and Vegetable Stew

I love recipes 😉

I started by browning my lean ground beef in my pampered chef steamer {best way EVER to brown meat!}.
I peeled, diced, and boiled my potatoes for about 30 minutes. I just waited until they were soft(er) not necessarily mashable.
In a big pot I mixed the browned meat, tomato sauce, {already dissolved bouillon cute} beef broth, onion powder, pepper, and salt all together.
I went in search of what other veggies I had and came up with a steamable bag of corn and a can of mixed peas and carrots. Yep, chunked all those veggies into the pot.
After bringing it to a bowl and stirring consistently, I removed it from the heat and ate it up! 😉

I'm thinking you could easily make this in a crockpot recipe. Put it all in to sit all day and simmer even more. That way you wouldn't have to hover over your potatoes either.

Yay for yet another made up recipe. If I can do it and have my family eat it, You can!

Filed Under: Baking and Cooking, Homemaker, The Ones about Post Series, The ones about the Rothacher Home, Thoughtful Thursdays

“I wanna learn how to be a mommy”

January 16, 2013 by Jules Leave a Comment

Today I'm guest posting over at the Mommy Blogging Director. I'm sharing about a family trip to everyone's favorite crafty store and an eye-opening encounter with my little girl. Go read how the statement, "But I wanna learn how to be a mommy; so I'm watching you..." has changed my view of the day-to-day.

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Get it Together Already!

January 16, 2013 by Jules Leave a Comment

I'm such a slacker! I found out about my sweet friends awesome book a while back and have failed to share it.
SORRY!

I've tried to make a notebook similar to this before. I used a scanky old falling apart tiny notebook left over from something. The entire thing was black and white. I had minimal importance to me...because it was ugly. Right? Lets face it, who wants to pull out something daily/weekly that's hideous. This notebook kinda represents...you. Then there's the whole, it was just Matt and I and now we've added a few more to the mix, I'm thinking I need to rework the ole "Family Notebook" rather than having 8 different places to keep this stuff.

This is Kayse: Isn't she just adorable! She writes over at KaysePratt.com. Easy enough to remember right? She has fixed my woes about my nasty, skank-tastic notebook and put it all in an eBook for me (and YOU).

Getting It Together is an eBook designed to help you set up your own Home Management System that works! It includes a step-by-step tutorial, and over 30 printables that you can use to start getting organized today!

Getting It Together includes…

Top 5 reasons you need a home management system. She's sell ya!
Step-by-step on how to creating your own HM binder.
30 printables! All the pretties and none of the hard work!!!
Kayse's great sense of humor. She's so normal, love it!

Here’s how you can do just that…

Purchase Getting It Together as a PDF! For just $3.99, you can immediately download the book and start using the printables. Easy peasy! Click here to buy now.
Purchase Getting It Together for your Kindle! Also just $3.99, you can get this wirelessly delivered immediately. This version includes a link to the printables, so that you can download the PDFs onto your computer and print them off. Click here to buy now.