Helping Busy Moms Take Back Their Lives!
Disclosure: Affiliate links included within post The Messy House: Encouragement for Coming Clean “My house is such a mess!” “You can stop by, but I hope you don’t mind stepping over things.” “I hope you can overlook the mess.” “Do we even have ANY clean dishes?” “Does anyone DO anything around here?” Yes, those phrases are some that bring on a bunch of tension, but I’ve found myself saying
Exercise. Sometimes, I hate it. Sometimes, I love it. I always need it! Our family has been trying to get a bit creative in finding time to exercise, but it can be tricky when we have 8 people living here. It seems like there’s always something to do and always mouths to feed, but I do believe we’re getting better at it. Here are some of the ways that we
Have you ever seen a tree that was struck by lightning but it didn’t fall down? We were at my in-laws house in December and noticed that the bark was stripped from a tree from the bottom of it, all the way to the top and wrapping all around. It was the strangest thing. It had happened in a lightning storm in the early part of December. Here are some
My sweet little baby boy will be 7 months old in a few days. It’s weird to think that only 5 short months away he’ll be one year old! The time is already flying by. This week we’ve had some fun milestones with him. He started saying Mama on Sunday (melts this mama heart!) and today, his first tooth finally broke through. He’s been soaking
You can never be too careful with your children on the internet. It seems that evil can lurk at every click. You have swearing, pornography, nudity, bad lyrics, predators, malware, viruses….. you name it. Being an adult, I can be purposeful in where I click so that I don’t get the latest virus and to make sure that some bad picture doesn’t show up on my screen, but
Last week, we talked about eating salad. Our family did really well at the beginning of the week eating salads every day. The kids couldn’t be happier getting to eat as much salad as they wanted and it was sooooo nice having all the veggies cut up and ready to go for our salads, but then it happened. We ran out of lettuce! That’s not good. I HATE going to
Today, we went to our monthly girls club called Bright Lights. It is for a few girls in our homeschool group that are between the ages of 9 and 12. We are teaching the girls to be strong for the Lord in their youth by focusing on Biblical principles and spending time in the Bible and in prayer, as well as being accountable to one another. Bright is an acronym
Our dishwasher, our poor 2 year old dishwasher was having problems. Sometimes, our family of 8 people have to do 3 loads of dishes a day! We would do a load and all of the top rack dishes were either greasy (even when they weren’t greasy before we put them in!) or just plain dirty. I was getting frustrated. The kids were putting away dirty dishes without noticing it. We
Today’s guest post is brought to you by Kasey of These Five of Mine Plus Two. The most vital of all earthy relationships is the marriage. Yet, it is one that finds itself too easily pushed onto the back burner. The demands and pressures of the average life make marriages very susceptible to death by neglect. I hit up my husband for some ideas to keep the matrimonial pulse
(This post contains affiliate links) Last week, we talked about drinking our water. How’d you all do? Are you getting plenty of water in? I discovered that I was already drinking my 64 oz, for sure…..but I keep forgetting to measure how much above 64 oz. My sister told me, that we need more than 1/2 of your body weight in ounces and there’s a calculator on the About.com website
This is by far, one of the easiest meals that I make. My mother-in-law taught me how to make this. I happen to love Mexican food, so of course, I jumped on the Monterey bandwagon really quickly! In fact, I like to make it a couple times a month. I save it for those days when you forget to thaw anything out and don’t get anything into the slow cooker
Hours old Earlier this week, I told you about my unexpected birthing experience of having a C-section. Today, I wanted to talk a little about fussy babies. Have you ever experienced an extra fussy baby? I hadn’t until this one. Sure, babies cry and they want to nurse all the time, but why would this baby not be happy for anything? The only thing I could do, all day, every
