What’s Up Wednesday [03.27.24]

It’s the last Wednesday of the month, and that means I’m linking up with some of my favorite bloggers Mix & Match Mama and Sheaffer Told Me To to share what has been happening around here! These are my favorite posts – I LOVE seeing what others have going on and love that I can look back at these someday!

March, where’d you go?! Oh my gosh, we are alive and well and thoroughly enjoying our days! March flew in and BLEW out! I miss blogging, but just don’t get to it like I used to. My busiest times are March, April & May. It’s planting season, seed starting, tulips, Girl Scout Cookie Manager, plant sale publicity for my local garden club, ad posting for said sale and subscriptions, Mother’s Day, end or school, etc….all the things start happening soon. I wish I could be better at blogging (one of my goals), but I just keep swinging and missing. In the past couple months, I’ve shifted my mindset on being present for family, the household and my “jobs”. Those things take precedent!

While I miss blogging and hope to do better down the line and put less stress on perfectionism, let’s jump back in by sharing my most favorite updates of the month!

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Friday Favs – A Few of My Favorite Winter Things

Hey, hey, hey and Happy Friday! This week, I decided to share some winter “updates”. Last week I shared a February Garden Update and a post about my recent appreciation for winter.

With the extra day in February yesterday, I thought it would be fun to incorporate some of my favorite winter things!

If you’re from the North, you know January and February (sometimes March) can drag in terms of winter. It’s the time when everyone starts to complain and wish for warmer weather. While I cannot even wait for Spring (18 days) and for the sun to set after 7 pm (9), I wanted to share my appreciation for winter before it’s over and we move on!

Of course, I’m linking up with some of my favorite bloggers to share some Friday Favorites with you all!

Link up with Andrea and Erika
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Winter Love

Good morning and Happy Thursday – how is it Thursday already?! Well, we were hit with the tummy bug again – Audrey and I actually had it at the same time (which was interesting and a first for us here), but we’ve made it through and feel a lot better. I am waiting for the boys to come down with it because it is just so contagious, once it hits your house, you know it hits EVERYONE!

Anyway, today I thought it would be nice to share a post about “winter love”. It has taken me until recent years to really appreciate this season in life and I think there are some things I want to carry over from this season into the next ones.

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February 2024 Garden Update

Good morning and happy Monday everyone! I hope you had a great weekend! We’ve been enjoying the long weekend and have been staying nice and cozy during the cold snap we’ve been having! This week I plan to share some things related to winter months, so be sure to come and check it out all throughout the week! I decided, today, I will start by sharing a February “garden update”. In air quotes because there is not much happening out in the garden right now! Well technically there is, we just can’t see those things!

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Let’s Look: Little Things We Do Every Single Day

Happy Wednesday everyone! Today is a Let’s Look prompt where we link up with Shay from Mix and Match Mama blog and Erica from A Little Bit of Everything blog. I’m super excited about all the topics this year – they are just so creative and fun! So kind of them to do these link up parties!

Today’s topic is, little things we do every single day.

This one was fun to think about because it really is mostly my morning routine and some other things I do sprinkled throughout the day!

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What We’re Making Wednesday: Starbucks Cake Pop Dupes

Good morning and Happy Wednesday! Today’s post is part of my “What/how I’m _____ …Wednesday” series. Last week we saw a recipe for these and could not wait to try them. My kids LOVE cake pops, so anything we can recreate, we’re game for!

What I love, is these can be customized in so many ways! We decided to make some Valentine’s cake pops! Giving props to the initial recipe found here!

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Motherhood Monday: One on One time

Happy Monday to you! I’m sure all my Northeast Ohio friends & even Midwesterners enjoyed the beautiful sunshine this past weekend. My gosh, did it feel so good! I honestly think a gained a tinge of sun tan from laying in the sun in our front room! I can’t tell you what that sun does for my mood though!

Today is Motherhood Monday where I share a bunch of randomness related to motherhood, parenting. Today, I’m sharing something that has come up A LOT in our home recently with Audrey in particular. That is one on one time.

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Our Family Favorite: Quick and Easy Breaded Chicken

Good morning and happy Friday! Instead of a typical Friday Favorite post today (since we just did a whole life update for What’s Up Wednesday – you can check that out here!), I figured I would share a family favorite around here. I will share a couple Friday fav photos from the week after I share this breaded chicken with you, so be sure to scroll to the end!

When I say, this chicken recipe is the easiest and most versatile recipe, I mean it! Dinner done in 15 minutes or less…you’re going to want to save this one!

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Valentines Gifting

Good morning and happy Tuesday! It’s almost February (which I can’t believe!), which means it’s almost VALENTINE’S Day! This year I found some cute things I wanted to gift the kids and some other items that would be perfect for gifting teachers or loved ones!

I felt like sharing those below and hopefully this week, we will button up the kids valentines for school and I can share those when they’re complete!

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Goals for 2024 in Flowers & Blogging

Happy Friday everyone! The kids have ANOTHER snow day, so we are bunkering down and enjoying another day at home together! We went out to dinner last night in celebration of the snow day, so I’m behind this morning on the blogging front – and that’s OKAY! That’s the perfect segway into my goals in 2024 for my two favorite hobbies, flowers and blogging!

Last year, my flower business got even more real. Not that it wasn’t real before, but I had orders to fulfill, a group of people to get flowers delivered too, a farm that shared my flowers with the local community in their market daily, a group of growers that provide local florists with fresh blooms including mine AND a community event that ended up using my flowers as centerpieces and decorations in their “Italian Market” theme.

It was a crazy fun year and I continue to learn so much! All that craziness, though, led me to “drop the ball” on my other hobby – BLOGGING here!

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Goals for 2024 in Homemaking

Happy Thursday everyone! Continuing where we left off from Tuesday, today I’m sharing my goals for homemaking in 2024. After nearly 6 years of being a stay at home mom, I feel like I’m finally finding my groove. Could it be that the kids are a little older and it’s a little easier to get certain things done during the day, YES, but I’ve also figured out a routine that really works for me.

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Let’s Look: At Cleaning Our Closets

Happy Wednesday everyone! Today is a Let’s Look prompt where we link up with Shay from Mix and Match Mama blog and Erica from A Little Bit of Everything blog. I’m super excited about all the topics this year – they are just so creative and fun! So kind of them to do these link up parties!

Today’s topic is, how we clean our closets. I plan to share our closet (nothing to write home about), but the true star is Audrey’s “closets”. She has the best organization going on and I’m so jealous! I am also going to share our mudroom closet, because I just reorganized that over winter break!

Okay, lets have a look at our master bedroom closet shall we?

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Goals for 2024 in Motherhood

Good morning and Happy Tuesday! I hope you had a great weekend with your family! This week I plan on sharing some goals I have for myself and our family for 2024. Each day I’ll highlight a different goal in an area of my life/home and provide details behind it.

I’ve learned so much about myself since last year. I’ve also learned that time is precious and I want my energy to be put into things that value time and those I love. Will other goals and “aspirations” I have for myself suffer – definitely, but I know I’m way better off and in a better place when I know where my priorities are.

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