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5 Sick Day Essentials

We have been terribly sick with colds this week. It’s passed through all the kids, and has left Mark and I a bit drained every day.  As I was trying to get some kind of sleep, I started thinking about the essentials my kids need to start getting better.  So of course I had to […]

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How to keep cool in this Heat

How’s the weather where you’re at?  Are you melting yet?  I feel like I don’t need to do any kind of exercise in this heat, and I’ll still burn up enough to lose the baby weight.  We had some storm clouds roll in this morning, and I thought for sure we’d get some rain, and […]

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How to Pit Cherries without a Cherry Pitter

Happy 4th of July everyone!  It is cherry season, and I’m making a cherry pie today for our BBQ. Over the weekend, I went to my mom’s to help pit and can some cherries. She has a cherry pitter, but doesn’t like it. According to her, you still have to check every cherry to make sure […]

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Kids and Dish Soap

What happens at your house when you think your kids are being good?  At my house it usually consists of doing something they really shouldn’t.  The opposite is true too. If I think they’re getting in to things, they’re usually just playing with their toys.  Here’s a good example.  Earlier this week I had been […]

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Preparing Your Home for a New Baby #SeventhGeneration

*This post is sponsored by SocialMoms and the Seventh Generation blogging program.* Whenever I get pregnant I immediately start preparing for the new baby’s arrival. There is so much to do, and although we ideally have 9 months to prepare, it doesn’t always feel like enough time. Between taking care of myself, my Princess’, and […]

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Home Buying Tips

I love that Social Mom’s Writing Prompt today was Home Buying Tips!  I’d love to share a bit more of our journey in purchasing our first home.  The struggles we had to go through, and the walls we hit.  If you are new to the blog, let me start by saying, we just bought our […]

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