Summer Bucket List 2022

Good morning and Happy Thursday! Hope you all are having a great week! We have enjoyed the first lazy days of summer vacation and I made an effort on the first day of summer to sit down with the kiddos and put together a summer bucket list! These are always so fun for us! We accomplished a lot on last year’s list, but there were some things we didn’t get to! Excited to have those on the list this year and make an effort to make them happen!

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What’s Up Wednesday [5.25.22]

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!

Had a crazy day that involved a trip to ER for nothing SO extremely grateful for that! Excited to share all the other great things that are happening around here!

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Summer’s here! A list of our Summer Must-Haves

SUMMER IS HERE! While school ending and graduation can take an emotional toll on me – I did okay and I think it’s because I’m ready to enjoy summer and the kiddos. They’ve been pumped about summer and I’m relieved to not have to answer the question, “Mom, how many days until summer?” every. single. day.

Yesterday was the first day of summer and it went surprisingly well! It was a chillier day so we eased into our day lounging in the morning and drcided to make our summer bucket list! I will be sharing all things summer related on the blog this week, so come on back and check it out! I thought it would be fun to kick off summer sharing our summer must-have list! I shared a list in 2021.

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Day in the Life – May ’22

Happy Wednesday my friends! My gosh – we had a 3 year preschool celebration this morning and we have nearly 2 days of school left until SUMMER BREAK! I really am excited to enjoy some lazy days around here, but it is all so bittersweet! I feel like the school year flew by!

Today, I’m sharing a day in the life post – as I always mention, these are my absolute favorite posts! I love looking back on these to see how things have changed/stayed the same/what was happening and I really love reading other bloggers DIL posts too (I’m nosy like that!).

Okay, let’s jump into our Tuesday!

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Weekend Rewind – 05.17.22

Happy Tuesday! Sharing our weekend review today and you can come back tomorrow to check out a Day in the Life post! We were spoiled with BEAUTIFUL weather all last week – even into the weekend! My body is still recovering from multiple days of A LOT of movement! Here are some highlights from the weekend!

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Life Lately: What’s Going On!

Oh my goodness, I have no clue how I am awake to write this! I have taken an unintentional hiatus from blogging and am truly happy to be back writing today! Everything is going well over here, just been very busy and very tired by the end of the day – which is when I write my posts normally! Sometimes, it is so important to just drop one thing off your plate and unfortunately that was my blog for the short time being. I needed to re-prioritize my life and given the kiddos, our home, some invite work and providing flowers for eggshell land – not stressing myself out about blogging helped me get through those times!

I do want to be more intentional about how I utilize my time and the hobbies/businesses that I work so hard to keep all together. Constantly working to be in a better routine and better organized, but soooo many different things can throw a wrench in the plans. I just need to learn to roll with the punches and unload items that might be weighing me down! Anyway, enough about my unintentional break, here is a look at what has been happening in our lives recently!

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What’s Up Wednesday [4.6.22]

Hello again friends! I’ve been on an unintentional blogging hiatus. Sheesh, life moves fast and we’ve been trying to keep up the past couple weeks. Between some sick kiddos, being sick myself and just adjusting to different changes that have been going on (all good things!) I needed to put blogging on the back burner. I lost my voice for about a week and a half, so happy to finally have that back and the kiddos back in school consistently!

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Day in the Life – March ’22

It’s almost the weekend! I think I’m in desperate need for the weekend! Andrew was gone on a work trip from Sunday-Tuesday evening, I decided to launch my new business AND it’s just been a lot! So many things I still need to take care of and hoping to do some of those behind the scenes items this weekend! On Tuesday, I had on my calendar to take pictures for a day in the life post. Finally getting around to sharing today!

This day was seriously filled with a whole lot of nothing – but, that’s what these posts are all about – sharing the uneventful because this is real life! It was not a typical day as I spent most of my time trying to get business stuff figured out so that explains how I only had literally 8,000 steps, yikes!

I was BEAT this morning as were the kiddos…hit that snooze button a TON!

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March 2022 Garden Update + BIG NEWS

Good morning – Happy SPRING and happy MONDAY!! Today I have some big and exciting news to share with you all! I’ve been spending a lot of time working on things behind the scenes, bothering family with voting and questions and I am so happy to finally have that all solidified!

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Friday Favorites – 03.11.22

Good morning and happy Friday! Keeping it short and sweet this week as it’s been super busy around here. A lot of exciting things going on, but also a little stressful! As I mentioned, I’m providing potted tulips and tulip arrangements to a local farm for an Easter event they have going on in a few weeks. I’ve literally been doing everything I can to get these tulips to hurry up and be ready for bloom by the time the farm needs them! Dealing with that and finalizing things for the new business has been very time consuming, but excited to have all that tedious work behind me!

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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Lenten Goals

Lent is here and it serves as a time to grow closer to Christ in love and sacrifice. Back in my teenage years, I used to give up something like chocolate or TV, but it wasn’t until I was a little older that it hit me, lent should also be a time where you DO MORE for Christ. While abstaining from something is extremely important (we fast every Friday), striving to be better servants to Christ and to those around us, praying MORE and becoming stronger spiritually during the Lenten season will ultimately carry over into our everyday lives, which is the goal!

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Tip Jar: Home Cleaning Checklist

Happy Tuesday! Today I am re-sharing my cleaning checklist because I’ve been using it a lot recently and felt it would be helpful to share again! I do not have a cleaning lady – though at times I wish I could! I personally refuse to pay for that service right now as I know it is one of my jobs as a stay at home Mom. In an effort to keep up with things around the house and not get TOO overwhelmed, I put together a thorough home maintenance schedule based on combining multiple cleaning checklists.

One of the main goals my husband and I have been trying to accomplish (and we’ve been doing a great job keeping up with it) is making sure the kitchen is clean EVERY NIGHT. Another area we’ve tried to improve on – making an effort to not get too agitated if the kids play room, aka our living room, is an absolute disaster during the day. It will always look chaotic as long as the kiddos are little and playing so learning to accept that fact is something we’ve made an effort to ignore. As long as the play room/living room is picked up at the end of the day and the kitchen is cleaned, we’ve found the following day to start off better – it just sets the day off on the right foot!

I will share more on this topic later because I have a WHOLE blog post dedicated to some things I’ve been facing as a Mom and a woman (hello Aunt Flo) that have truly come to light over the past year.

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Happy Twosday – 2.22.22

Wishing you a very happy “Twosday”! If two is your lucky number, I hope you go out there and live it up big today(maybe play the lottery?!)! In honor of this special date, (and the fact it falls on a Tuesday!) I thought it would be fun to share two of my favorite things from a handful of random categories!

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