Today is Earth Day! As a child growing up on a farm, each year on Earth Day we would as a family, walk around the farm, pick up trash and make the farm look pretty again. As we all know, winter can do damage and leave it’s mark on our outside spaces so it’s important to […]
Archives for April 2014
Overcoming Our Fears: Lessons Learned From My Kindergarteners
As I’m sure many of you have noticed that I have been including reading and literacy skills in my weekly goals for quite some time. My Kindergarteners have came a long way with their reading skills, but it hasn’t been the easiest skill for either them to master. In fact, at times they are simply […]
Meal Plan Monday
Each week I list out my meal plan on Monday’s in order to keep me accountable to my family with home cooked meals and out of the drive through line. With all the running we do, it is challenging to get meals done where we can all eat together and under my weekly budget of […]
Goals For The Week
My “One Word” for 2014 is present! Therefore, each Monday I list my intentional, present goals for the week. My goals are broke down into relationship, homemaking, self-care, and blogging. I’d love for you to leave a comment and let me know what your goals are for this week as well! I didn’t do very well last […]
Focusing On The Priorities of Life
I have caught myself the last few weeks in particular, feeling overwhelmed with blogging, kids’ activities, our garage sale, and just life in general. Almost all of these “things” were self-inflicted on my part, and I’m sure many of you can relate to the feeling of running around, stressed out, cranky, and looking at your […]
Meal Plan Monday
Each week I list out my meal plan on Monday’s in order to keep me accountable to my family with home cooked meals and out of the drive through line. This week is extremely busy. I’m sure you have noticed, it’s not Monday! It’s Wednesday! I’m playing catch up from last week and this week […]
Goals For The Week
My “One Word” for 2014 is present! Therefore, each Monday I list my intentional, present goals for the week. My goals are broke down into relationship, homemaking, self-care, and blogging. I’d love for you to leave a comment and let me know what your goals are for this week as well! Last Week’s Goals: Intentional Relationships (Marriage/Parenting/Mentoring/Friendships): […]
When Life Has You Running In Circles…
As many of you have noticed, I’ve been absent the last few days. It’s not because I haven’t been thinking about the blog! My family had a garage sale Friday and Saturday, which meant I spent most of the last two weeks getting ready for this sale (and it was totally worth it, I got […]
My Target Trip: Spent $50.37 For $156.12 Of Products & Received $15 of Target Gift Cards
Today I’m off on a field trip with my twins, so I will be explaining how to save money at Target tomorrow (there are numerous tools that you can use at Target as you will see below). However, I’m hoping to get you a little excited about how much you can save with some prep […]
April 2014 Goals & March Update
My One Word of 2014 is “present” so besides setting intentional goals for this year, I’m also setting goals in which I am going to be present for. I’ve been fairly happy with my goal progression except for in the area of reading the last month. It was too busy and some area had to give and […]
