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Pinterest Fashion for the Whole Family
There is no doubt that Pinterest is a fabulous tool that allows us to get ideas, tips and information. I use it for so many things. What I love most about it is that I don’t just pin things and forget them. I pin them and reference them often. I try ideas out too, and the ones that work, I implement into our home, life, or homeschool. Lately I’ve been using Pinterest to help me to update my families wardrobe. Having a child, I am ever on the hunt for clothing that fits because he outgrows what I buy almost as quickly as I buy it. But with Beloved having…
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20 Meals for Family Dinner Ideas
Homemakers are most often the family meal maker as well. I’m no exception. I enjoy cooking for my family. But I don’t enjoy meal planning. Which is why I have a few meals that are my go to meals for each season. These are meals that I know how to make without having to pull out a recipe so meal planning is pretty easy as long as I keep my pantry well stocked. My 5 Favorite Winter Time Meals Cabbage Rolls Lasagna Vegetable Beef Soup Meatloaf Orecchiette with Ham & Asparagus But that doesn’t mean I’m not willing to try new things. In fact, I love trying new recipes to see if…
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Nest Your Home for Winter
I’m always amazed when I watch the birds at our feeders through the winter. Beautiful and tiny creatures that dwell outside in the coldest of temperatures. I know that God provides for them, and has created them to endure the weather. They build their nest to shelter themselves in even the coldest of winters. As homemakers it falls to us, wives and moms, to build our nests for winter. We want to ensure that during the weeks, and sometimes even months of sheltering in place that our homes will be a warm and comforting place to be. Which is why I’m sharing with you seven ways to nest your home…
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Cleaning Up After an Illness
I’ve been sick for about 3 weeks. Coughs, congestion, achy, overall tiredness and weariness, yet can’t sleep. Apparently there is a lot of bugs floating around this winter. Young Man was sick for about a week and a half. Beloved had a little bug, but not enough to keep him down.I have several friends who have been sick and know of others who also have been sick. Now that I’m feeling better. It’s time to purge the house of the germs. That’s why I thought perhaps you might want to know what I am doing to clean up after an illness in our home. This post contains affiliate ad links to…
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Anatomy of an Organized Closet
Organized Closet How To I’ll be the first to admit that closets in my home get cluttered pretty quickly. It’s so easy to put stuff inside closets, close the door and forget about it. In time, the more I add the more cluttered it becomes, and in a short time, I’d rather just keep the door closed. Recently I have been determined to clean the closets in our home and try to get organized in a way which will be easy to maintain. In our bedroom we have one of those standard closets with a double sliding door. We have no walk-ins here. Let me show you how I organized it for…
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5 Homemaking Tips for Homeschool Moms
There are some things that I’ve learned over the course of our homeschooling years. I have learned how to maintain my home so that I’m not overwhelmed. Let me just say, that homemaking through the homeschooling years is quite different from other stages of my life. I’m not one of those, every last surface in my house must be spotless, kind of homemakers. We live here. More than that, we school here and my son and I are here nearly 24/7. So clutter, happens. That being said, I do prefer having a home that is clean and fairly straightened. During my working years I had a specific routine for getting…
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A Planner with Choices
Thoughtful Design Leads to Custom Planner It’s that time of year when we begin to consider our goals for the new year, we rethink the way we did things in the past, weeding out what did not work and looking for ways to improve our methods for another year. I’m not usually someone who uses a life planner, but I know many of you are and that’s why I wanted to share this with you. That being said, I do use a planner for blogging along with an editorial calendar which is why I was excited to be able to review this one, because it has everything you could ever…
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10 Days of Meal Planning Free eBook
Download your eBook free Today After participating in a 10 day hopscotch series where I shared Meal Planning When You Don’t Like to Plan. I’ve heard from several of you that you have been encouraged, inspired and even gotten some great tips. So I decided to turn the series into a downloadable e-book. Meal Planning Free eBook Download now for FREE. Happy Meal Planning without a plan. While your here visiting, why not become a regular subscriber Just enter your email here: You’ll get a regular update of all my blogs in your inbox, occasional newsletters and notes of…
