HMH Books is partnering with me for a giveaway! All opinions are my own. I started babysitting pretty young. This tends to happen when you are the youngest in a family of 8, and where your older brothers and sisters are already married with kids. Babysitting is really an adventure. I remember the first time I had to change a …
Here Is How To Make Magical Moments All Year Long
This shop has been sponsored by Chobani. All opinions are mine alone. #GimmiesFun Is it just me who feels this way or now that the holidays are over the words magical and magic kind of get pushed to the backside? Only to be pulled out for use again the next holiday season? I think though that the whole rest of …
The Happy Now Blog Link- Up #147
Welcome to the Hundred And Forty-Seventh Edition of The Happy Now Blog Link -Up! Hello and welcome! We are excited to have you join us! The Happy Now is a weekly link up of posts that have been posted on websites all around the web. If you are a blogger we would love to have you share the …
My Kitchen Declutter Inspired By Marie Kondo
This post contains affiliate links. By clicking on and purchasing from those links you are helping to support my blog, and my family. Thanks for the love! I saw the Tidying Up with Marie Kondo show pop on Netflix after the first of the year, and truthfully felt very little motivation to watch it. I am not the pinnacle of …
The Happy Now Blog Link- Up #146
Welcome to the Hundred And Forty-Sixth Edition of The Happy Now Blog Link -Up! Hello and welcome! We are excited to have you join us! The Happy Now is a weekly link up of posts that have been posted on websites all around the web. If you are a blogger we would love to have you share the …
Share These Sugar Cookie Bars With Someone You Love
Two magical things happened this Christmas. The first was someone dropped off a plate of sugar cookie bars that were so good they left me wondering how I had made it to the ripe old age of 40ish and never had one before?! The second magical thing was the gift of brand new baking sheets. Now since the alignment of …
The Happy Now Blog Link- Up #145
Welcome to the Hundred And Forty-Fifth Edition of The Happy Now Blog Link -Up! Hello and welcome! We are excited to have you join us! The Happy Now is a weekly link up of posts that have been posted on websites all around the web. If you are a blogger we would love to have you share the …
Celebrate Winter With These Five Crockpot Soups
Now that the holidays are officially over (boo) and my kids are heading back to school, it’s time for my family to buckle down and start eating real food again. And not food like the tamales and copious amounts of cookies that we have been surviving on for a while now. That type of diet is just not sustainable, so …
The Happy Now Blog Link- Up #144
Welcome to the Hundred And Forty-Fourth Edition of The Happy Now Blog Link -Up! Hello and welcome! We are excited to have you join us! The Happy Now is a weekly link up of posts that have been posted on websites all around the web. If you are a blogger we would love to have you share the …
How To REALLY Make & Keep Those New Year’s Resolutions
I have never really been a New Year’s resolution kind of person, but if that is your thing, then I am here to help! Today, I am going to offer some “helpful” tips on how to REALLY make and keep those New Year’s Resolutions. I’ve formatted this for printing so this can stay with you all year long. . . …
Easy Eggnog Shake
My kids love eggnog. A lot. The first time the “nog” hits the store shelves for the Holiday season, you had better believe my kids will start asking when we can bring some home. Something easy and quick I like to make for them is an eggnog shake. I know you can buy them in restaurants, but if you are …
Get Ready For Flu & Cold Season
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc., Abreva, Breathe Right, Clorox, Robitussin and Theraflu. All opinions are mine alone. #SoothesOfTheSeason #CollectiveBias Does anyone else feel like we just rang in the new year and now we are full-tilt into the Holidays, heading for another new year… and cold weather?! I know that for some of us thoughts of …
The Happy Now Blog Link- Up #143
Welcome to the Hundred And Forty-Third Edition of The Happy Now Blog Link -Up! Hello and welcome! We are excited to have you join us! The Happy Now is a weekly link up of posts that have been posted on websites all around the web. If you are a blogger we would love to have you share the …
Get Ready For Christmas Eve: Reindeer Food and Letter To Santa Printable!
Can you believe it is just a few short days until Christmas? As a family, we have a Christmas Eve tradition to write thank you letters to Santa and also, to leave out some magical reindeer food for all of his crew. I love this tradition that we have done with our children. It is kind of a quieting down …
