Go to Bed with a Clean House for a Less Stressed Morning

Hello everyone!  I hope that you are enjoying your week!  We have been really busy with family events.  :) When we are busy, I house seems to fall apart really quickly!! I am not sure what happens but we are in and out so much and it’s hard to keep things in line. One of the ways that I try to keep a clean is house is to go to bed with it clean and tidy!   If I take the extra time at night to pick up,  we wake up feeling great and less stressed! :)  My kids go to bed at 7pm so I have time to clean up and relax with...

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Homemade Barrettes

Do you have 10 minutes? In ten minutes, I made several cute, barrettes for my daughter!!! I don’t have great pictures because this was a last minute project.  I keep all my materials in this basket.  I was already in the process when I took this photo, ha!  I wasn't planning on blogging about it but I thought I would after I started.   I just use my hot glue gun.   I use flowers, ribbons, buttons, sequence, etc…pretty much anything that I can find.   (Again, sorry about the blurry photos.  It really...

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When one door closes…

I first started this blog because we were planning on building a home, and I wanted to document the process.  But those plans fell by the wayside, and we assumed we’d be in our current home for several more years.  We were *so sure* we’d be staying that we used up all of the collected items (intended for the new house) on this house instead.  Like our front door.  And our laundry sink.  And the bathroom sink and legs.  And the fireplace mantel.  Plus more… Oh yes, remember this?  It wasn’t so long...

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How to Organize Magazines and Newspapers

Welcome to Week 10 of our Organize your Life series! If you are just joining in, please link up your blog here so we can all help motivate each other! I am reading and using the book called, Organize Now! by Jennifer Ford Berry, to help me organize my life! :) Are you a magazine subscription junkie? Can you remember the last time you actually had the time to read one of the many magazines or newspapers that you’ve bought? Do you have several years of the same catalogs piled high? This week’s challenge is to…   Organize...

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To Your Vitality The Three Colors You Should Be Eating More Of

With spring here and summer coming, I though you would enjoy this post! :)   The Three Colors You Should Be Eating More Of Remember ROYGBIV? I do. The mnemonic is how I learned the seven colors of a rainbow—red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Nowadays I use the acronym to represent the colors of food I should be eating. Because nature highlights the beneficial nutrients in fruits and vegetables by giving them bright colors, eating by color is an easy way to load up on nature’s superfoods. Each color represents phytochemicals—compounds...

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