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"Whatever your reason to celebrate Christmas, there are a lot of us moms who feel completely overwhelmed and overloaded with all the 'stuff' that being a parent brings. This isn’t just a Christmas problem either, it happens at birthdays too. So please take a minute and hear us all out. A lot of moms these …
Continue reading My (sorta minimalist) Advice: Kids Christmas Gifts
Like I anticipated, not everything on my list is finished yet. I guess that just shows me that I need more than 6 weeks to do a room, depending on what projects are involved (like painting cabinets which take f.o.r.e.v.e.r. for this homeschooling mom). BUT, I want to tell you all about my table spread …
Continue reading ORC: Dining Room Final Reveal (Kitchen Coming Soon!)
Dear friend, You just searched google for: "How to balance it all as a seminary wife"... and somehow you stumbled upon me. Yes, I'm serious. My stats tell me what people search for that leads them to my site (cool, huh?) but this one...oh my heart. I want to reach my arms around you and …
Continue reading Google search: How To Balance It All As A Seminary Wife
As I anticipate the 6th week of The One Room Challenge I've been reflecting on my reasons for participating. To be completely transparent, the reason I wanted to do it was to get exposure on my blog, to have more page views, more followers etc... You see, I have this little dream to earn a …
Continue reading Hospitality, Minimalism, and Page Views: Why I Really Did the ORC
If I'm honest, I am nowhere where I wanted to be with this room challenge. I likely won't get everything done that was on my list in time and I think I need to just accept that and keep doing what I can. Between health issues, appointments, Halloween, homeschooling my kids, and normal day-to-day life …
Continue reading Week 5 One Room Challenge: If Only I Was Mary Poppins
I am super behind on this week's blog post! I don't have a huge update but I will share some pictures since that's the best part of our ORC posts sometimes 😛 I got one section of my cabinets onto the step where I get to actually add the color. So I'll show that below. …
Being a vendor at the Junk Crush stretched my marriage and myself in ways I didn't think it could be stretched. There were moments I was in tears, ready to quit the event and give up because of how it was affecting my relationships with my family members. FACT CHECK: I can't do it all. …
Continue reading The Craft Fair and My Marriage: The Collateral Damage
I never thought October 14th would be our first snow fall. I guess that comes with the territory when living in Minnesota. The cold weather has been super unmotivating for me. I've also been battling a cold which I am finally on the mend from and the kids and I have had a lot of …
Continue reading Undertaking the Kitchen Cabinets (DIY style)
