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The yummiest ALMOND JOY chocolate chip cookie recipe
Hello Hello Hello!!! I got SOOO many people begging for this recipe on Instagram that I KNEW I needed to get it up on the blog. SOOOOO HERE it is. These cookies are so yummy and gooey…perfect for cool fall nights…or days…or the middle of summer. Who am I kidding?!?! There is NEVER a bad time for chocolate chip cookies right?!?! Disclaimer…I am a cookie dough eater. LIKE A LOT OF COOKIE DOUGH. At 40 years old, my mom still warns me. BUT I CANNOT STOP!! And this cookie dough is divine. The chunky texture of the almonds and coconut PLUS the kick of the almond extract. OH MY HEAVENS…YUMMY!!!…
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Fall Inspiration Blog Hop
Fall is my FAVORITE time of year for decor, food, weather, activities, footwear…haha…you name it!!! I love the leaves and the colors and the baked goods. OHHH THE BAKED GOODS!! But what I do NOT like is that the fall decorating season coincides with both BACK TO SCHOOL shopping AND CHRISTMAS shopping. So in the season where I want to buy ALLL THE DECOR, I have to make the responsible choices. Over the years I have learned some easy tricks on how to decorate for fall (or any holiday/season) on a budget. Start small. Rome wasn’t built in a day…and your home cannot be either. It is soooo hard in…
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Stripping laundry and freshing up workout clothes
Have you ever seen something on Pinterest and thought…”hmmm I wonder if that really works?”…and then just gone along about your day and life?!?! I have seen lots of posts, and IG stories, and pins about stripping laundry, but it seemed really unnecessary. I barely have time to DO laundry, let alone strip it all day in the bathtub. But then someone pointed me to GO CLEAN CO, and I watched them stripping laundry in IG stories, and I INSTANTLY ordered all of the supplies. I am here to tell you that the GO CLAN CO laundry stripping method is the REAL DEAL!!! Why do I need to strip my…
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Friday Favorites: How to clean mattress stains
Ok…two words that just sound super nasty when said together are MATTRESS and STAINS. BUT before I lose you on a technicality, just hear me out. I have kids and I have pets…and sometimes those two beasts living under a roof can cause (said in a stage whisper)…mattress stains. It is gross and I hate to even bring it up, BUT I came across a SUPER easy solution that can help clean mattress stains AND refresh a dirty mattress and I wanted to share with all of my friends in case there are other people with nasty kids or pets who may or may not have caused some stainage of…
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Money Saving Monday–How to cut your grocery bill
Are you always wondering where the heck your money goes each month?! I really did not have a good grasp on HOW MUCH my family was actually wasting on groceries until I started to track my spending. I WAS SHOCKED!! I was WAYYYY overspending on food, but we were eating it…so how was I supposed to cut out anything?!?! We HAVE to eat…right?!?! Well yes…but also no. There are lots of ways to cut back, but let me tell you how I have managed to cut our grocery bill BASICALLY in half. How much should I budget for groceries?? There are lots of facts and figures floating around about what…
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PROGRESS over perfection
Well somehow it is already August and I feel like 2020 has been the year of forgotten goals. SOOO I am going to take this opportunity to start fresh and make some new resolutions. As I was contemplating this, I decided I needed a word…something that would pop into my mind anytime I wanted to sit on the couch and watch Netflix and eat chocolate chips outta the bag. I google searched POWER words and decided on PROGRESS. August would be the month of progress. BUT then as I started to plan my month, my goals became more clear. I have a LOT of un-finished (and un-started) projects around my…
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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.…
