I started on my bedroom today. Before I began it was difficult to walk around, but now I can actually enjoy my room. My friend and I painted the walls sage green last week. I love the color, it is so relaxing. I still need to find a new comforter for my bed, I think [...]

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I am so excited about the Conquer the Clutter challenge being hosted at my other blog this month. When we moved (and displaced all of our stuff) much of the junk rose to the surface and now sits in piles around my house waiting to be sorted, tossed, filed, passed on, put away, etc…
I have [...]

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Another busy week here! My brother and his family will be coming on Tuesday for a week. As I type this I have 10 children sleeping (or not) in my house celebrating my daughter’s 14th birthday. They made their own pizzas tonight, ate strawberry banana triffle and Rice Krispy treats for dessert and our now [...]

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This week my brother and his family will visiting at the beginning of the week, and then we all head off to a family reunion of sorts. I am bringing the snacks and smores. It will be a blast I am sure! Once again, I will be feeding 13 this week, so I took many [...]

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I have to admit, I had a hard time thinking up something to write about for Laura’s Gratituesday this week. It wasn’t that I didn’t have anything to write about, it was that I have so much. There are so many things in my life, I am so blessed, that I had a hard time [...]

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I hope all of you from Lara’s blog are not sick and tired of my home makeover posts. It is really taking up most of my time, so that is what I am talking about!
The school room was the next room I decided to tackle in our new house. After painting six rooms, I couldn’t [...]

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I am having company this week. I am so excited because I just love visitors. I especially love these visitors because they lived next door to us and so I don’t have to do a super great cleaning job. She has seen my house in every condition imaginable!
We have almost completely finished the moving in [...]

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As I am sure many of my readers know we just moved into a bigger home. I have a dilemma that I would love for my readers to solve for me. There is coat closet right across from my kitchen. We are not using it as a coat closet because I have a wardrobe that [...]

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A few weeks back I wrote a post about the cost of convenience. I have been thinking about the idea for a while and realized that there are many different ways to look at convenience.
As I type this I am in the car headed for the HEAV convention. (Don’t worry I’m not driving). We are [...]

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One thing I love about my little kids is that they still think chores are fun. Unfortunately, there are many chores that they would love to do, but they are just too little. It doesn’t help that I have two really capable older kids that can do any chore in the house as well as [...]

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