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Staying Home with Kids in 2025? These Budget Tips Will Change Everything

July 7, 2025

Staying home with your kids in 2025 is more achievable—and rewarding—than ever, thanks to evolving technologies, progressive work opportunities, and innovative tools designed for today’s parents. Whether you dream of being more present for your children while managing the household or looking for ways to make staying home financially viable, you’re in the right place. …

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A vibrant dish of fried rice with chunks of chicken, peppers, corn, peas, and green beans in a skillet. Garnished with fresh parsley, conveying a hearty, flavorful meal.

How to Meal Plan When You’re a Busy Mom

February 19, 2025

I’ve worked from home for several years now and recently went to work full time OUTSIDE the home. The hours are 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. It’s about a 15-minute drive to and from. When I got home and started dinner, we wouldn’t have eaten until 6 p.m. Some of you may think that’s early, …

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Beyond the Dream: The Hard Truths About Simple Living on a Homestead

December 17, 2024

Beep, Beep, Beep. My phone is going off at 6 a.m. I can feel my eyes heavy, but the day has already started, and everything is awake and moving with or without me. Everyone is much more pleasant with a cup of coffee already pulsing through my veins. Without my coffee, everyone is much more …

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Stay at Home Mom’s Guide to a Productive Future

September 1, 2022

Are you a Stay at home mom whose kids are now back in school? Is this the first time you will have your house to yourself? What do you do with your spare time? Should you go back to work? Let’s explore what options we have as homemakers whose kids are now all in school. …

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Life on a Hobby Farm

September 22, 2020

There I was. I was driving my new-to-me car for the second month out of the six I’ve had—our first lemon car. And when buying this so-called new car, we opted for the Ziebart package. You know, living near Buffalo, NY, and all calls for significant rust. The car wasn’t familiar to me at all …

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3 Ways to Show Kids Love When Stuck at Home

March 18, 2020

Friends, I know the feeling. When you stay home to be with your sweet babes, the time seems to be in a whole different cycle. The days are long. When they turn 9, the clock speeds up. If we could only find the time clock that is right in the middle. When the kids have …

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How to Be a Highly Effective Modern Homemaker

July 17, 2019

Homemaker. It sounds much better than Stay a home mom, right?! I saw my mom write “Homemaker” on an application as a teenager, and I felt shocked and proud. Staying home has an actual name, I thought?! Homemaker.At least it’s how my thirteen-year-old self perceived it. Now, as a homemaker myself, I view the title …

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How to Survive a Remodel with Your Spouse

April 10, 2019

Are you married to a DIYer? A man who has to have a project to work on? Perhaps even MULTIPLE projects going on at one time? You aren’t alone. I am too. If you are a couple who likes DIY projects and have kids, this post will encourage and provide tips for these stressful times. …

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5 Ways to Declutter Physical & Emotional Stuff

March 27, 2019

I had no idea all the clutter in my life blurred my vision—not the physical clutter: papers on the counter, toys in the corner, shoes here, and cups and plates there. The emotional clutter. The strained relationships. The stiffness you have with your spouse. Building boundaries, you had no idea needed to exist. It can …

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How to Overcome the Pain of Paying Off Debt

February 6, 2019

Every once in a while it surfaces. So and so will share with me how they are going to Disney, in the dead of winter. I imagine for a sweet second being able to feel the sunshine again. I could care less about the characters rides and magic, I’m feeling the want of being in …

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To The Other Moms- Who Cringe at Crafts with Kids

January 30, 2019

As moms, we want everything to be good. Not perfect just good. The thing that comes right along with children is the constant feeling to be good at everything like everyone else. If you can throw out the ideas of what your own parents have told you or made you think, you may realize just …

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How to Set Smart Goals & Crush Them

December 27, 2018

Are you ready to make goals and stick with them? This year set your goals up in a way that inspires you to dream big.    You hear it often, set goals. Or better yet as the new year begins people often ask, What are your goals for this year? I love setting goals. I …

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7 Habits That Are Making You Feel Unworthy

December 14, 2018

Life. Why is it the older you get things start to click? I had a dream three days ago- panicking, shouting to everyone who was involved in it how when you turn 30, life is over. “IT’S OVER! ” I kept yelling. I woke up and forgot all about the dream until I started my …

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How to Slow Down This Holiday Without Ruining the Fun

December 8, 2018

Whether you are stressing over family coming into town, chatting with your uncle who makes your skin cringe or dealing with kids who are whining and screaming; the Holiday season can be one of the most hectic stressful times of the year. What if we could just stop and try to simplify things? Throw out …

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How to Be Joyful While Recognizing Your Situation

December 4, 2018

JOY. What comes to mind when you read that word? Such a tiny word but packed with the key to life. Joy. Unspeakable joy.   Wouldn’t you want that to fill your soul every day?   Let us wake up and decide it is going to be the best day. The key to enjoying this life …

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All I Want for Christmas is More of Less

November 19, 2018

I have two small children who aren’t quite so small anymore. You know how that is right? Our oldest started kindergarten and the youngest started preschool. We have a new routine and they have found a bit of independence. My husband and I have probably worked harder in the past year than any other year. …

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How to Live Life Without Being Exhausted

June 7, 2018

Don’t let exhaustion be your idol this summer. Just one measly year ago, I was drowning- in my kids. My life was just THAT exhausting. I was drowning in the thoughts that got me tangled up in a web of self-pity. “I can’t do this.” “I don’t have any freedom.” “I’m trapped.” “I’m broke.” “I’m …

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3 Simple Ways to Clean Out Your Closet

June 6, 2018

I don’t know what it is about the sunshine finally peeking out and the chance to open the windows in spring, but it creates a sense of purge. So if you want to declutter your wardrobe quickly and easily, I have some tips for you below. I’m not one to have a huge wardrobe. My …

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Why You Need Tree People In Your Life Right Now

January 21, 2018

Are you tired of the filtered relationships on social media? Are you feeling the ache of building a relationship in today’s world? Discover the tree analogy that changed my relationships and will change yours. I remember that day. My head was so heavy. In my heart, I wanted to lift it up. I so wanted …

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Are you looking for tips to let go of perfection? Tired of striving for more to be better, bigger, and keep up with the others? Never forget these three things to help you overcome a fear of failure. They have worked in incredible ways. You can discover ways to always embrace new beginnings.

Three Ways to Let Go of Perfection

January 1, 2018

Are you looking for tips to let go of perfection? Tired of striving for more to be better, bigger, and keep up with the others? Never forget these three things to help you overcome a fear of failure. They have worked in incredible ways. You can discover ways to always embrace new beginnings. You know …

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Are You Letting God Absorb Your Pain?

October 10, 2017

Adulthood. Motherhood. Wifehood.  It all has caused me to shed tears of joy and gratefulness, something I never did 10 years ago. I used to think tears were only for when you were beyond your limits and hopeless. When life couldn’t possibly be throwing you another curveball that comes to hit you right in the …

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Netflix of The Bible- Best New Christian Media App

September 7, 2017

When we first started a marriage bible study group about 7 years ago the couple leading the group at the time shared with us they won’t watch rated R movies. I went with the notion that is what works for them but it doesn’t have to be what works for us. Through those seven years …

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How to Stop the Noise and Live a Joy Filled Life

June 18, 2017

Noise.  We hear so much of it on a daily basis we don’t hear it. Every day that goes by, year that passes the noise drowns us. You suffer from a loss of hearing. Where has our joy-filled life gone? Does it really have to be like this? Do we really have to conform to letting …

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Are you Hustling for Your Own Self-Worth?

April 25, 2017

Hey there. You are here reading because a little tiny piece of you may be thinking about your own self-worth. I mean how can you not? Look at the culture that surrounds us. We live, breathe and eat for more. We are constant consumers of everything that comes to mind. Our culture tells us especially …

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