Getting Ready for Tax Time

2011 tax documents are starting to arrive.  Getting organized now can save you time, and reduce stress as you prepare to file.  Here are some simple categories to group your tax information.  Use an expandable file, or a three-ring binder with pocket folders to order your information so that filing will be a breeze. Earned [...]

Make your own art

Why spend a ton of money on already made and framed art?? Chances are you already have some beautiful pictures and don’t even realize it. I had a calendar one year that I absolutely loved and hated that the year had ended. I ended up removing the pictures from the calendar and framing them for [...]

Commitment to Beauty

How do you see yourself looking at the end of 2012?  Is this going to be another year of chapstick being the only makeup you wear?  Are you going to run around all year without a pedicure?  Will you spend months on end without a haircut? This year, commit to looking good all the time.  [...]

Holiday Dangers

Christmas is a holiday we want to remember always. Sweet memories of children opening presents on Christmas morning, happy faces while baking cookies for Santa, Christmas carols and stories by the fireplace. But Christmas, like any other holiday, can create terrible memories when we don’t prepare for possible dangers. Food Safety When sending or receiving [...]

Seasonally Organized

Organization is the one thing that will get us through the season smiling and singing!  As long as we stay on schedule we will get it all we need to done in a timely manner! We really need to plan out our month.  Sit down with a calendar and figure out what needs doing week [...]

Thanksgiving Menu

Here is a Menu Planner form – don’t wait til the last minute to organize your Thanksgiving dinner! Now is the time to start picking up some non perishable items. This will help keep from getting hit financially all at once. A little here and a little there doesn’t hurt the wallet so much. Once [...]

Cleaning with kids

With small children your home will have that “kids live here” look! But toys out on the floor and messy jam smeared cabinets are two different things. If your following a daily chore lists and a weekly cleaning lists, the rest should just be picking up after yourself and children as you go through your [...]

Never Too Old!

Don’t let the kids have all the fun! Show up to the party dressed to match! Creating fun costumes can be easy as digging through your house to find the right items! Splurge a little for accessories and you and your husband are the life of the party! Blast From the Past: Have you been [...]

Autumn Scents

The warm, rich scents of autumn remind us of our mother’s cooking, snow working it’s way on the edge of a breeze, and rolling around in fallen leaves. Hay rides and pumpkin patches. Baked pies and roasted root veggies. All of that can easily be brought into the home without needing to buy scented seasonal [...]

Morning Madness

The alarm goes off and you hit the snooze button three times. By the time you fly out of bed, your kids have exactly 20 minutes to get ready before the bus gets there. You throw open their doors screaming to them to hurry up or they are going to be late. As if this [...]

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