Creating A Babysitter Folder
A few weeks ago my husband and I were blessed to go on a trip to France and the United Kingdom. If that wasn’t enough, our family and friends watched our kids while we were gone!! A trip for sixteen days without [...]
How to Dispose Expired Medicine
Everyone has expired medicine sitting around at home, if you don’t think so, look again. As I was spring cleaning last month, I realized that half of the medicine in our home was expired! While cleaning each room I collected expired medicine, prescription creams, and vitamins in a large Ziploc bag and set them on [...]
How to Get Tomato Stain Out of PB Curtains
So on Mother’s Day Eve we sat down for dinner. Spaghetti. Red sauce. Very RED sauce. My sweet husband did not want my daughter to get the sauce on the area rug so he moved her away. Near the window to be exact. Bless his heart…he had great intentions. Who knew that she would take [...]
The Power Of YELP
I swear no one has as much trouble as I do trying to find good help. I know everybody wants to hear the violin playing a sad song for them, but I seem to constantly pick the slow line at the grocery store if you know what I mean. The words “Oh that’s weird” or [...]
Baby Too Big For Cradles?
THIS BED WAS TOO SMALL My baby was 10 lbs 2 oz when he was born… so I knew he’d be growing out of stuff at an accelerated rate! There were newborn clothes that I couldn’t even squeeze on him. I have a beautiful cradle that my husband’s grandfather made for our first baby. [...]
Finding Time To Exercise
Walking at 5:45 am? Are you crazy? If someone told me last year that I would be one of thoooose people, the kind that go walking on purpose, with seemlingly no good reason, I’d have laughed in their face. As a kid you never think finding time to exercise will be on your to do [...]
10 Ways To Stop Entitlement Parenting
There are constant news reports about this generation and entitlement, but it didn’t start with this generation. It was actually started by our parents and with our own children we have perfected it. Less than a hundred years ago our grandparents wanted their kids to have a better life so they worked hard to make [...]
How to Spend More Quality Time With Your Kids
If you’re like me you try to squeeze every second out of every day. The problem with our over scheduled lives is the first thing we tend to leave out of the family schedule is one-on-one time with our kids. I debated entitling this post Free Quality Time With Your Kids or 10 Minutes A [...]
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