My new computer will be here today! Hooray! Hooray! I want to get back to regularly posting on this blog during the week and I miss doing so! I would have had it yesterday, but the Fed Ex guy needed a signature and no one was home. Go figure! Hopefully I will have everything set up tonight and will be ready to go. I have so much I want to share with you all and I feel better about doing…
We are back in school again! I usually have mixed feelings about the kids going back to school, but despite my feelings, we have to get into a routine! This helps simplify our lives so much. To help our mornings, we like to have our things together the night before. These are things we do to simplify our mornings: bookbags are packed and ready to go clothes are laid out for the next morning shoes are found, accessible, and ready…
Our August in pictures – we had a lot going on and not nearly enough pictures taken! Family Reunion in Storm Lake at the end of July Paige’s early birthday present! She was ecstatic! Vacation Bible School Program! First Day of School! Storm that came through and did a lot of damage! Others had it worse though. We were so lucky! Dane’s Birthday Party with his classmates! Dane with his birthday cake that Grandma Anne made! Thanks for reading! Have…
Preparedness Monday is slightly off-track seeing that today is Tuesday and what I had planned to blog about is going to wait until next week. I had planned on starting to talk about the ways I have started and added to my food storage as well as what I would like to do. We are switching directions this week because I have felt guided towards this direction by our personal experiences at home. The feeling is strong enough now that…
Have you ever heard the saying you can not plan too much? I didn’t believe that saying either until 2-3 years ago. When Shali went to high school, I suddenly understood this saying in all its glory. One of the areas I knew I had to get my act together in was meal planning. Meal planning is extremely important! I pride myself on having a thorough pantry that I can pull a lot of meals from, but when the clock…
I have Cleaning House Guilt (CHG). Does anyone else ever get this? I think it should classified as an illness, but I doubt any doctor would take me seriously. I just know that when I get CHG, it takes over my life. I start to view myself as lazy and undisciplined. I come home from work, sit down for a few minutes and…see a mess. I see everything I promised myself I would get done. Yesterday. Three weeks ago. Last…