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Life as a mom of 4
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You are Enough
Wednesday was a hard day. In order to avoid crowds at the grocery store, I changed my grocery day to Wednesday. I woke up with a slight headache. nothing too terrible but I know that if I don’t take anything, it will develop into a migraine. But since it wasn’t a migraine I didn’t want to take too much medicine. Because of that I ended up with that headache all day which influenced my feelings of accomplishment. It took me 2 hours including the drive to take care of the grocery shopping and gas, my 2 year old who is potty training right now had 2 accidents, it took me…
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2020 Budget Wins and Fails
Since we are 4 months into the year and I often try to share some of the budgeting tips that have worked for our family (search budget posts on the blog), I thought it would be helpful to share my budget wins and fails so far. It also helps me celebrate my wins or learn from my fails. January and February The first two months of the year would count as fails in my book even though I was still able to put money into savings. Of course having been able to save they are not total fails. However, my hope was to start the year with a small credit…
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March Favorites
I had a hard time coming up with favorites for March at first. It is not that my life is that much different now than before apart from being stuck at home a little more than before. I have been quite a homebody the past year or two unless we are on vacation but I had started to meet different friends once a week. I think it is more the uncertainty of when this will be over that gets to me. The children are doing well with their home schooling lessons and we really have enjoyed the outside time (minus the pollen) with walks and bike rides as well as…
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Baby room updates
Following with last Friday’s room update, today I am sharing a few things I did to my youngest’s bedroom. He is 2 and a half years old and thankfull still sleeps in his crib. The crib has made it through 4 children so we definitely got our money’s worth! It was purchased at Baby’s R Us 13 years ago! I like that it is a 4 in 1 crib so we can take the front off when he starts climbing out of it. We have one of the boy’s extra mattress and box spring for when he outgrows it. The main reason I wanted to make some updates to our…
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Family fun when quarantined
Today I wanted to share some of the things we have been doing to make our days a little more fun! We definitely have created a loose routine that works for us with school work being done usually between 9 and 12 and meals at our regular times. My teen is very happy not to have to wake up at 7:30 while his brothers wake up at their usual time (for my 9 year old, that is 6 am!!). Do not feel the pressure to entertain your kids all day long. We have electronics time during the 2 year old’s nap and we have some tv time during the day…
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Boys room updates
My 9 year old and my 6 year old share a room. Over the past couple of months, I have made it a priority to declutter our house from top to bottom. I went through the boys toys and after using some of their wall decor they had outgrown in their litte brother’s room, I decided to gave their room a little facelift. My first step was to declutter the top of their shelves: all of those souvenirs and treasure box prizes found a permanent home you know where. I kept their trophies and some pretty souvenirs that would be easy to lift to dust the shelves and dresser. Reading…
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Pantry organization
I have seen beautiful pantries on Pinterest and on some bloggers posts, beautiful shelves, beautiful containers and labels. You won’t see anything extraordinary in my pantry but I thought it would be nice to share my pantry with all of you so that you could see that you do not have to spend a lot of money to have an organized and happy pantry. Over the past year or so I have purchased a few Room Essentials containers from Target and I ordered a few more in the past couple of weeks since I had not seen the color in stores and was worrried I wouldn’t be able to find…
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February favorites
This month my favorites are different as in they are not purchases. I did buy a few new skirts from Shein, a pair of leggings from Go 2 (which I will review and compare with my Zella leggings next month) but my favorites are moments and things I made! Homemade yogurt After at least a year of not making yogurts, I am back at it. My 9 year old kept asking when I would be making some yogurt and while the boys do love the whole milk vanilla 32 oz yogurt tubs from Kroger, we do go through them fairly quickly. If you have a favorite yogurt recipe, please share.…
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Mom’s French Crepes
When I mentioned making crêpes in my last Friday’s post several people mentioned how they enjoyed crêpes so today, I am sharing the recipe my mom gave me. I am not sure whether she found this recipe in France but she probably did since there is where I grew up eating crêpes. Instead of an American breakfast for dinner as I sometimes make me, we would have crêpes for dinner and usually sweet and not savory crêpes. Having crêpes for dinner was a special treat. I do not make crêpes very often for the simple reason that with a family of 6, we go through a batch pretty quickly. While…
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Weekend routines
I strive on routines. I love the school year because I know when the children need to get up, go to school, when I can work on my blog and visit friends. I also do like summers and school breaks and for the long breaks I usually create some routines such as when snacks and meals are, some outings and when we go to the pool for example. That still allows for some freedom and some impulsivity too. Now surprisingly, Saturday can be my least favorite day of the week! Why is that? Here is what I came up with: lack of schedule lack of plans To battle my dislikes…