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Friday Favorites: How to clean on TOP of kitchen cabinets.
Okay. So I had a WHOOOOLE other Friday Favorite for today…but then I started cleaning my kitchen and ECHHH…I was disgusted. I removed the decor from my upper cabinets, and there was SOOOO MUCH DUST up there. And not just REGULAR dust…it was that icky sticky super cosmic un-DUSTABLE dust!! Luckily my friend Bobbie came to the rescue (hay girl hey!!) and shared a tip that BLEW MY MIND!! Anddddd that is how THIS Friday Favorites post was born…how to clean the TOP of the kitchen cabinets…AND keep them cleaner!! SOOO as soon as my friend shared this little gem with me, I KNEW I had to pass it along.…
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What home-school curriculum are we using this year??
When I initially decided to home-school Ethan, I was SUPER overwhelmed by all of the curriculum options swirling around the internet. It seemed that EVERY one had good reviews and bad reviews, pluses and minuses. SOOOO when we first started, I chose to just patchwork a curriculum together to get us started. BUT soon I realized that winging it was NOT the answer. SO I jumped into researching again, and that is when I discovered THE GOOD AND THE BEAUTIFUL. I downloaded the free Language Arts files and after the FIRST lesson I knew that I had found the answer to WHAT HOME-SCHOOL CURRICULUM will work best for my family?!?…
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Money Saving Monday–Creating a Christmas Budget WITHOUT credit cards!!
Are you ready for Christmas yet??? We are currently hitting highs over 100 degrees here in eastern Washington, so it is hard to believe that Christmas is coming up fast, but there are only 150 days left until Christmas Eve…less than 5 months…21 weekends!!! Do you have your Christmas budget ready?? Last September I explained ALLLL about how I try to plan ahead by using sinking funds to be prepared for extra expenses, but what if it is now July and you DO NOT have sinking funds set aside for Christmas?? We all know 2020 has started off really crap-tastic and ALL planning has LITERALLY gone out the window. SOOOO…
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Why we decided to home-school
Let me just start off by saying that I TOTALLY understand the strange looks I receive when I say “I pulled my son out of public school this year and now we are home-schooling.” I get it. I WAS that person. I would have been at the VERY FRONT of the public school parade pointing at the home-school families and shaking my head. That is until my son needed me. He NEEDED me to step in and make a SUPER difficult decision FOR HIM. Let me start at the beginning. Ethan is a good kid. He is a delightful kid. He doesn’t get into trouble, cause problems, or push boundaries.…
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Kid-Friendly Charcuterie Board
First off…did you see our new YouTube channel yet?? If not, you SHOULD!! We have TONS of new content planned for the summer, so don’t forget to subscribe so you don’t miss it!! This week has brought us temps over 100, and my desire to cook (and will to live) have both left the building. It is just TOO DANG HOT!! At the grocery store, I was at a TOTAL loss. What the heck could I make for dinner that was A. simple enough for my 5 month quarantine self to pull off and B. didn’t require turning on the oven?!?! As I wandered through the cool aisles of the…
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Friday Favorites: new games for family game night
Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, I will receive an affiliate commission at no extra cost to you. All opinions remain my own. In my opinion, there are only two types of people in this world…those who like board games…and weirdos. Haha. I LOVE GAMES!! And when people tell me they DON’T love to play games, it is basically like they are speaking Latin to me…I DO NOT understand. Since March (when life as we know it changed and this crazy thing we call social distancing started to rock my mommin’ world), I have pretty…
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Summer boredom buster activities
Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, I will receive an affiliate commission at no extra cost to you. All opinions remain my own. Are your kids killing you with the I’M bored and What should we do?? Covid has not helped and my kids are needing something to do. SO I set out searching for some boredom busters for those summer afternoons. First off, perler beads. We got our first beads for Easter, and they are STILL a favorite for killing boredom. When Ethan has watched ONE too many youtube videos about Minecraft and I…
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Glitch by Laura Martin
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The Dino Files…perfect for my reluctant reader
Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, I will receive an affiliate commission at no extra cost to you. All opinions remain my own. Being the mom of a reluctant reader can be tough. Being a READER mom to a reluctant reader can be ALMOST heart wrenching. WHY oh WHY would anyone NOT want to read books??? It is also hard not to feel guilt, anger, denial…well let’s just say ALL emotions are pretty fair game. Did I read to him enough as a baby?? Did I let him watch too many cartoons. Should I have…
