Good morning, good afternoon, good day to you all no matter the time you’re reading! Today I wanted to share all about Audrey’s 8th birthday party!
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August 2023 Garden Update
Good morning – happy Thursday! I am so excited because today we receive our new mattress! I can’t wait to get some good sleep, FINALLY! It’s been almost two months that we’ve been sleeping on a foam mattress (which is crap and a story for another day!), so we are ready!
I’m a little behind on my garden updates so I figured I would share an August & September update with you today! I’ve loved doing these every year and it is so cool to look back on previous years and just a month ago to see how much has grown, changed, etc.
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Let’s Look: Our Evening Routine
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, our evening routine. In some ways, I’m like, “what routine?”, but I realize we are falling into one! School has been excellent, extra curriculars are great, sports have been amazing, but it’s been a bit of a juggling act! Here’s our routine most days!
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Tip Jar: Back to School Checklist
Happy Thursday! I can’t believe we are a weeks away from a new school year beginning! We just got home from vacation and my husband just had a medical procedure done, so it’s been crazy around here! Last year, I put together a list of to-do’s to have completed prior to the first day of school and I figured I would share that here in case you are in the same boat preparing for all things back to school!
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Let’s Look: My Worst Habits
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, my worst habits, boy do I have a bunch of those! There are several that come to mind right away and it makes me laugh that I’m so aware of them and still so terrible at making the necessary changes in my life!
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July 2023 Garden Update
It’s that time of the month – today I’m sharing a monthly post about my garden! I’ve loved doing these every year and it is so cool to look back on previous years and just a month ago to see how much has grown, changed, etc.
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Happy Summer! Here’s our Summer Must-Haves
Happy first day of Summer! We’ve been enjoying our summer so far for sure! Yesterday I shared our routine and schedule, so today, I figured I would share a list of our summer must haves!
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Sharing our Summer Routine and Schedule
It’s the day before the first OFFICIAL day of summer and I am so excited to share some summer fun posts with you! A month ago, the kids and I sat down to chat about our new summer routine and what we wanted our summer to look like this year! I am the type of Mom that NEEDS a structured plan in order to get something accomplished. If I don’t have a game plan, we can fly through a day and look back and ask ourselves, what the heck did we even do today?!
In an effort to make summer fun and memorable (we get limited summer with these kiddos – especially these ages), we put together a summer schedule to encourage us to have the most amazing summer! I’m also sharing a very loose summer routine that I try to follow if I can! It helps give some form to our days and the structure is truly helpful for all of us!
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June 2023 Garden Update
Well, it’s been a bit since I’ve shared a garden update with you! I was working super hard over the past couple weeks to flip some beds and get the summer annuals seeded ASAP as I feel I’m really behind! Some things have hit the ground running (hey, hey weeds….) and others are slowly but surely getting established! It is hard to be patient this time of the season because June is truly a TWEENER month. The end of July is when all the action happens so, it can be tough to be patient!
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Let’s Look: Our Best Travel Tips
Good morning and happy Wednesday! I hope you are having an amazing week! Today, I’m linking up with Shay from Mix and Match Mama blog and Erica from A Little Bit of Everything blog to chat this month’s “Let’s Look” blog prompt – best travel tips.
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Let’s Look: My Morning Routine
Good morning and happy Wednesday! I hope you are having an amazing week! Today, I’m linking up with Shay from Mix and Match Mama blog and Erica from A Little Bit of Everything blog to chat this month’s “Let’s Look” blog prompt – my morning routine.
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Spring Cleaning – Favorite Products
There has been so much “tidying up” going on around here and I thought I would share what happens around the house when spring hits since we are going through it!
In honor of SPRING, I want to share some of my favorite spring cleaning items! Again, we don’t have a cleaning service, so I do all the heavy lifting myself!
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Easter Basket Ideas for Girls
Good morning and happy Tuesday! I can’t believe Easter is right around the corner! Such a beautiful time of year! Today, I’m sharing some fun Easter basket goodies that scream summer and spring. I like to give the kiddos things they will be needing for the upcoming seasons as gifts!
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Good morning and happy Wednesday! 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, all time favorite Amazon finds – my gosh that’s a tricky one! I have SO many favorites, but I’ll try my best to narrow it down to my tops in the following categories:
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Let’s Look: What’s in our Medicine Cabinet
Good morning and happy Wednesday! 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, what’s in our medicine cabinet. We have TWO “medicine cabinets” – one that keeps my vitamins and natural supplements, which I like to try natural remedies before going to meds (particularly for myself), fever reducers, allergy meds, etc.
Our other “medicine cabinet” houses all the things needed for first aid, cuts, band-aids, thermometers, essential oils, vapor bath supplies, etc.
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January 2023 Garden Update
Good morning and happy Monday! Today, I’m sharing a garden update with you! Since we are covered in 6” of snow, the only gardening that can be done is all indoors at this point in time.
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What I’m making Wednesday – Lemon Butter Chicken
Hey, hey, hey and happy Wednesday! These weeks are just flying right on by! I laughed with the kiddos – I feel winter break has just extended into January! The kids had a four day week last week and now another one this week! We’re basically part time school over here!
Anyway, today I am sharing a family favorite around here – lemon butter chicken. It is so simple and very tasty!
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I shared at the beginning of the month that we are doing NO SPEND JANUARY in our household. After doing a yearly budget review, it’s a chance to reset and find the areas that put the most stress on our budget and impede on our savings plan.
If you missed it, I blogged about it last year – it was a huge success and a great reset for us!
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Let’s Look: Scheduling/Organizing a Busy Family
I am so excited for today’s post – today is the first 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, scheduling/organizing a busy family. I’m laughing because I realize how boring this one might be as I just wrote about limiting what my kiddos are involved in. We still do SOME things and seem to be running around in some sense, so I’ll share some of the things I do to try and make things run smoother.
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Motherhood Monday: Craving Traditional Motherhood & Homemaking in a Modern Day World
Happy Monday my friends! I hope you had a nice and relaxing weekend! We had some plans cancel on Saturday, so it turned into a relaxing weekend, which I LOVE!
Today’s post is about something I feel super drawn to – that being a more traditional way of living in our household. Sometimes I sit back and reflect on my childhood and compare it to my kids. The amount of times I’ve told them, “when I was a kid, I used my imagination a TON and didn’t need guidance or instructions to play” – recently are too numerous to count.
Don’t get me wrong, modern day technology and living is pretty amazing. We’re able to get almost any items we need on our doorstep the next day, we can order groceries online and pick them up at the store or have them delivered within hours, we have access to countless food choices and can also have them delivered at our doorstep, we can access information at our fingertips and be aware of what is going on with family, friends and the world around us on a minute-by-minute basis. All that sounds amazing until you really think about it.
Technology and those modern day conveniences without limitations are negatively affecting us parents, our children and home structure sometimes we don’t even realize it.
I’ve already witnessed the addiction YouTube has on kids. Opening surprise toys and watching others play has become all the rage – messing with a child’s psyche and their own way of play. Tik tok (which I refuse to have) is another addicting platform that is awful for kids self esteem, their youth, mental well-being and should be banned entirely in my opinion.
The fast food convenience craze upsets me a bit. Now, obviously I love a good McDonalds Coke or Burger King fry once in a while, but constantly eating out just makes it easy for our children to form bad habits (I.e. what they want they get right then and home food is boring) and doesn’t give them the real nourishment they need. They will no longer want the “bland” (I.e regular fruits and veggies) and will crave all the processed sugars, sweets and junk they normally receive. Being able to cook and eat at home allows me to control what’s in my food, have my kids try things (even if they don’t like it) and enforce healthy eating habits and emphasis on such for my kids.
If there is no limit to technology and modern day conveniences – the core fundamentals of being a kid (using imagination, building self esteem and confidence, patience, exploring outdoors, enjoying the simple things in life) and a family unit will slowly be destroyed and our children will have a lack of understanding of how important these core values truly are. It’s my job as mom (and obviously Andrew as Dad) to show them, share with them and be the example.
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