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Spring Break Bucket List {Add Your Link}

Spring Break starts here next week. We will be staying around home for the break, so I’d like to do things with my kids and as a family to make the time feel more special. I’d also love to know what...

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Help Your Neighbor! {a really fun family game}

My husband introduced me to a game that is a favorite for our family now. He played it as a kid and remembered it as a game we could easily teach our girls. We love board games! We probably gather...

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2 Years of Crazy-Awesome

Dreaming is my favorite kind of planning! Yours too? Last week I celebrated a pretty big milestone. I have been in business for two years. Two years ago, I started three businesses in the same week. I...

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Mom, I really am truly sorry for every cavity.

We expect ourselves to do all the things our moms did and more. Is your to do list never-ending? There is a reason moms today feel worn out and stressed out. We can only do so much! We expect so much...

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Ready for Summer

Because of snow days, tomorrow is our last day of school this year. This spring was such a whirlwind that I was feeling really nervous about going into summer feeling totally frazzled. I hate feeling...

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FIRST LEGO League: Organizing The Junior Kit

We are LEGO fans in our house, which hasn’t always been the case. When my three girls were younger, I didn’t want to stick to the stereotypes, so we loaded up the playroom with LEGO Duplos and Mega...

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5 Minutes Well Spent

5 Minutes was all it took to change how I felt as I walked in my room and looked at my nightstand. Sometimes you just really need a win to start the momentum for more winning. Last night I needed a...

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Emotional Intelligence for Kids {What you’ve been waiting to hear}

“This shop is part of a social shopper marketing insight campaign with Pollinate Media Group® and EQtainment, but all my opinions are my own. #pmedia  #Qsracetothetop http://my-disclosur.es/OBsstV” I...

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Stop Lying To Yourself

Procrastination can be a powerful tool. Sometimes I’m so busy procrastinating something I don’t want to be doing, that I get a ton of other tasks done in the meantime. And it is true, there is...

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Teach Piano Lessons at Home {FREE Lesson Plan PRINTABLES}

Last year, I posted about teaching piano lessons at home. I had no idea that people would be so interested! I just thought I was sharing something helpful that a few readers might enjoy. It is my...

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Big Change Requires Big Effort

If you’ve read very much on my blog, you know that I am all about a balanced approach to keeping up your home. A little here, a little there, and it really does add up. This realistic, more balanced...

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5 Habits to Start Now

Goals are good and all, and I say go ahead and make some this year. Goals give us a vision of where we want to go, but in the end, it is usually our habits that take us there. This year, whether or...

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Week 2 of Cleaning and Laundry (The Keeping House Mini-Challenge)

{If you’re just joining us, get caught up with more about the Challenge HERE and read about Week 1 HERE …} You probably noticed I didn’t ever post some of the links from Week 1 that were “coming...

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Learn To Live Imperfectly

For years, I’ve struggled with perfectionism and I’ve come a long way with a lot of effort. Perfectionism is just so stifling and sometimes crippling. Recently, I had an experience that made me...

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Good Moms and Sticky Floors

There is a very popular quote that is one of my biggest pet peeves. Hearing this quote spoken is the equivalent to me of nails scratching chalkboard. On Etsy, you can even buy beautifully stained...

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That time I bought Lady Bugs

I really wish that I had written this post immediately after we released the lady bugs, so that I would still be optimistic that the lady bugs were going to stay around for a while and eat all the bad...

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Taking A Break {Remembering 3 Weeks Ago}

My husband encouraged me to write a blog post to say that I will be recycling favorite blog posts while I prepare for my new website release and the upcoming planner season. Another friend encouraged...

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I Lost My Emails and I’m Okay

I could tell you this really boring story about how I accidentally deleted all my emails. I’d include details like how user files were stored in a strange folder on my computer. My hard drive was...

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Tutorial: Easy Pillow Covers

Pretty tablecloths are an indulgence of mine. When I saw this tablecloth at Target, I knew just what I wanted to do: turn this tablecloth into Christmas Pillow Covers. Tablecloths are a very...

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What You Can Do

There are things I don’t do well, and sometimes I get so caught up focusing on those things, that I stop doing the things I can do. One of John Wooden’s best pieces of advice is “Don’t let what you...

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