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My Top 5 Favorite Home Essentials

Maintaining the inside of our home is primarily my job and it is something I take pride in. That being said, is it always perfectly clean? No. Is it always tidy? Definitely not. But, I do try! And these things below either make my job SO much easier or bring me joy, thus making the […]

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Menu Planning Monday #131

Welcome to another Menu Planning Monday! Here I try to plan out healthy, EASY meals that will get me in and out of that kitchen as quickly as possible while still keeping our palettes satisfied. We got more snow this weekend, and that, coupled with the wind, kept us indoors quite a lot (other than […]

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Luxe for Life

Since becoming a mom, taking care of myself has taken a little bit of a back seat; understandably. I just don’t have the time/energy at the moment to do some of the things that I used to do when it was only myself that I needed to care for. It was only a handful of […]

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Menu Planning Monday #130

Welcome to another Menu Planning Monday! Here I try to plan out healthy, EASY meals that will get me in and out of that kitchen as quickly as possible while still keeping our palettes satisfied. We had a wonderful weekend filled with sports, parties and family time, and we are now ready for another week. […]

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The Follow Up

I felt a follow-up post to my story was in need after the completely heart-warming, encouraging, uplifting, and terribly sad, discouraging, and heart-breaking response it received. If you missed it, you can see it here and here. So many of you reached out with words of encouragement, words of praise, and words of compassion. But […]

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Menu Planning Monday #129

Welcome to another Menu Planning Monday! Here I try to plan out healthy, EASY meals that will get me in and out of that kitchen as quickly as possible while still keeping our palettes satisfied. We had a jam-packed, but fun weekend, and are looking forward to a somewhat easy-going week! The kids only have […]

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Five Non-Candy Valentines with Free Printables

**Re-posting this from last year! Still some amazing ideas. Gosh, people are so creative!** I was at Target the other day when I came across this amazing little section of goodies in the Valentines Day section that would make for GREAT non-candy Valentines for the little ones to give to their friends and/or take to […]

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Menu Planning Monday #128

Welcome to another Menu Planning Monday! Here I try to plan out healthy, EASY meals that will get me in and out of that kitchen as quickly as possible while still keeping our palettes satisfied. February?! Already?! How did that happen?? And dang that groundhog! I am SO ready for Spring! Here are this week’s […]

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Battery and Remote-Operated Light Trick

Hello, my friends! I recently learned a new light trick from Brooke at Nesting with Grace, and I just had to pass along the goodness. I HAD to! It’s too good not to. We all know hardwiring lighting is a real pain, especially when there isn’t any wiring in the wall to begin with, leaving lighting […]

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Menu Planning Monday #127

Welcome to another Menu Planning Monday! Here I try to plan out healthy, EASY meals that will get me in and out of that kitchen as quickly as possible while still keeping our palettes satisfied. Our daughter has been requesting Chinese food a lot recently, so I thought I’d make a week of it. I […]

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