How to Fly on Cheap Airlines + Other Travel Tips
Traveling on the bare bones airlines has its challenges, but the savings is worth the effort!
Travel Themed Room for Kids
As we go through the house showing you all of the changes we’ve made since the house fire I wonder why I didn’t just do this stuff before. Why did it take a fire to get me to thoroughly clean out my closet or get rid of junk? It’s been so freeing to completely purge. …
Life is Good and Rooms are Clean
We live in a small house with small rooms and lots of STUFF. Until last week it had been 7+ years since we really, deeply cleaned out the “little boys’ room.” As our older kids have left home the younger ones have kind of just slipped quietly into the emptied spaces and I don’t say much about it. …
Taking Breaks and Cleaning Out
This post contains affiliate links Well howdy stranger! Can you believe it’s September and school has started and we are off to a great start once again? I’ve been quiet here for most of the summer. I decided at the end of May that it was time for me to take a vacation from blogging. I had…
Mother’s Day and Other Matters
At last I had an entire day at home yesterday. It’s been a while, between traveling and driving kids to and fro, since I got to just hang out at the house. Well, truth be told, it wasn’t 100% at home all day. I did have a breakfast date with my youngest son. Every Thursday…
Spring Cleaning Anyone?
The bug has hit me. You know the one….spring cleaning, or call it post-wedding-cleanup, or possibly “I can’t take this messy house anymore!” syndrome. Whatever you call it, it hit me hard last week. It was great timing too because all of my older kids were gone to the Christian Worldview Film Festival Thursday-Saturday, so…
The Crazy Wedding Lady Lives Here
In a week I will be decorating the church and getting ready for our daughter’s rehearsal dinner. Right now I feel like Lisa has disappeared and the crazy-wedding-lady has stepped into her body. There is so much to do that I’m getting up before 5:00 am each day to work on my regular life so…
How to Keep a Simple Summer Menu
Do you stick to a tight schedule in the summer or do you keep it foot loose and fancy free? Me, I’m a little of both. When there’s a lot going on I keep it tight, but other times I lounge around like a movie star.
6 Easy Natural Cleaning Tips
Do you do spring cleaning?! I always get a bug to get my house shiny like new around this time of year. What is that?
Covering My Gray Ain’t Easy, but at Least I Got My Closet Cleaned While I Was at It
I decided this weekend was the time to deal with the monstrocity that was my gray roots. Nothing says “I don’t care” like dark brown hair with an inch and a half of gray at the top.