Welcome to Week #5 of the Spring Cleaning Challenge! I’m going to be completely honest with you. When I announced the Spring Cleaning Challenge, I had a five-week plan in the works and announced 5 weeks. But then Coronavirus came and I decided to change everything up. Then my new Spring Cleaning plan only needed […]
A Flood, Again
This will be news to almost everyone, because Matt and I have hardly mentioned this in the last month. But, the same day Matt’s dad passed away from Covid, there was a leak in our master bedroom. Also that is the same day I cut my own hair, which I did after we dried everything […]
Spring Cleaning Week 4: Start a Cleaning & Laundry Routine
Congratulations, you’ve made it to the 4th week of the Spring Cleaning Challenge! This means that you’ve gone through your home and deep cleaned!!! I could probably use about 100 more exclamation marks because WHAT A GOOD FEELING. Now, I want to help you keep your home feeling good all the time. Having a home […]
Spring Cleaning Week 3: Household Jobs
We are on week 3 of our Spring Cleaning Challenge. Remember that Spring Cleaning just really means “deep cleaning,” so if it’s no longer spring when you do this, that’s okay. This challenge is just a plan on how to get your home deep cleaned. It’s always a good time to do that. If you’re just […]
Knife Skills & Life Skills
When I was feeling so sick last week and my husband was feeling really overwhelmed with all of his responsibilities at the time, a thought occurred to me. I wished my oldest kids, twins Allison and Michelle, could cook more meals independently. They have dinners they can make that are easy, but they don’t know […]
Quarantine Haircuts
We couldn’t help it. We just needed wanted haircuts. I jokingly suggested it to all of my kids one day, but the idea instantly perked Izzy’s ears for reals. She had a lot of hair and she was ready for a change. I’ve cut her hair before, I’ve cut all my kids hair before. It’s […]
No testing for us – yet.
I shared this on my personal facebook page, and it brought about so many comments with good suggestions for battling the symptoms. I wanted to bring up the conversation here on the blog because I’m interested in your perspective too. One of the most interesting things was that by bringing it up, I found out […]
Spring Cleaning Week 2: Deep Clean Your Private Areas
We are on week 2 of our Spring Cleaning Challenge. Remember that Spring Cleaning just really means “deep cleaning,” so if it’s no longer spring when you do this, that’s okay. This challenge is just a plan on how to get your home deep cleaned. It’s always a good time to do that. If you missed […]