Helping Busy Moms Take Back Their Lives!
(This post contains affiliate links) Did you know that your fruits and vegetables can harbor dangerous bacteria in them? That doesn’t sound very healthy does it? You just never know who had their hands on that apple at the store. It could’ve been that sweet little toddler with a nasty cough. And, don’t you just hate it when you bring your strawberries home and don’t realize that one strawberry was
As you all know, I’ve been following the Shaklee 180 program to lose some much needed weight! I’ve been doing well on it, but I’ve found that I’m getting bored with my food choices. Don’t get me wrong, I love the simplicity of having a shake and/or a meal replacement bar for two of my meals each day, but my other choices (i.e. snacks and dinner) are the boring
As many of you know, I’m a procrastinator at heart. I’m aiming to get better about this. Some weeks ARE better and some weeks I wish I could be a little more self motivated! Below are the tasks that I tend to procrastinate the most often on, in no particular order: Leaving the House – I don’t know why, but I always give myself about 5-10 minutes less than I
We have recently been through what I call a whirlwind of medical procedures! I’m sitting in the hospital right now, near my 13 year old daughter as she sleeps. This is a good time to tell her story. Maybe it will help someone else out there. The Short Version: Half of my 13 year old daughter’s face is paralyzed due to an ear infection that reached into her mastoid
Are you curious to know how much weight and inches I’ve lost so far on the Shaklee 180™ program? As you know, I lost 10 pounds in my first 2 weeks. That was exciting! The following 2 weeks, the weight didn’t fall off quite as quickly. My weight in the 2nd 2 weeks, I was seeing go up and down by a few pounds several times. Finally though, it fell 3.4 more
I asked the following question on my Facebook page the other day: What are your best tips to help someone stay on a diet? I got some amazing answers! In fact, they were so good that I thought I’d better share them here, with you. Otherwise, you may totally miss out! Eat to live, don’t live to eat. Know that every bite after the first, tastes the same. Spend a
April showers are right around the corner. Though the days may be getting warmer and you want to get outside and enjoy the sunshine, the rains are bound to send you back inside to keep dry. With small children at home, being kept inside for long periods of time, can be a challenge. It won’t take long before you’re feeling like you’d rather chance it in the mud than stare at the
Today, I’m sharing 3 different posts. I wrote each of these posts as a contributor on their sites and they went live in the past couple weeks. I hope you’ll take a moment to check them out and to say hello! We’re all looking for ways to feed our family’s inexpensively! Here are 35 Frugal Family Meals that I pulled together from several of my blogging friends! Blooming
I’m a homeschool mom of 6 children, 4 of whom are school age. Every year, I attend a homeschool conference and I’m ALWAYS glad that I did! 5 Things I do Before a Homeschool Conference Research the Speakers, taking note of which ones that I would enjoy listening to and that I could benefit from listening to that year. Print out the schedule of the Homeschool Conference I’m going
This is the 3rd in a series on Using Technology in Your Homeschool. For more ideas, go to Raising Arrows or Peace Creek on the Prarie. Don’t you just love having digital books? I know….some of you probably don’t actually love that, but I personally love the variety of books that I’m able to have on hand at all times, without carrying an arm load of them. Books are heavy!!
This is the 2nd post in a series of posts on Homeschooling with Technology. For more posts on using technology in your homeschool, visit Raising Arrows. We all know the power that video can have over our kids. Why not lasso some of that power and use it to enhance our children’s education? There’s videos about everything imaginable on You Tube. If you use them, your teenagers will
Hello friends! Remember a few weeks ago when I told you that I was chosen to be a Shaklee 180 blogger? I’ve been kind of quiet about it since then, but Friday, marked 2 weeks that I’ve been on the program and I am starting to see some exciting results. Before I tell you those, I wanted to tell you a bit about what I’m doing. I started out by
