5 Tips for Making Home a Heaven on Earth

Making home a heaven on earth is more of a Journey than a Destination!

If you step into my home on any given day, you will most likely not see perfectly clean floors and walls or even clean children half the time. My home is not a museum, it is a place of learning and growth! Sometimes that growth is not pretty! I dream of a perfectly organized, clean home […]

9 Ways to Happily Survive on a Small Budget!

Tips to survive on a small budget? DONE!

 7 Ways to Happily Survive on a Small Budget   Okay, in the past, I’ve learned a lot about …MONEY! I’ve had plenty of experiences  “falling behind” with things like medical bills or unplanned ’emergencies’ like fixing a portion of our roof that was damaged by the stinkin’ swamp cooler. It isn’t easy to get ‘caught up’ on […]

Motherhood Memes

A collection of Motherhood Memes to help you laugh at the hilariousness that is motherhood.

Motherhood can be stressful and frustrating and exhausting.  If you don’t take a minute to laugh at it all every now and again, you might just loose it.  So, we thought we would try our hand at some Motherhood Memes to help us laugh at the hilariousness that is motherhood… and to vent a little. […]

9 Great Ideas for the Best Girls Night Out!

great ideas for girls night out with your daughter! young or old!

(I participated in an Influencer Activation on behalf of Influence Central for OshKosh B’Gosh. I received a promotional item to thank me for my participation.) One on one time with our kids is so precious! They all want to have our individual attention ALL of the time, but with 2 girls and 2 boys that […]

How to Raise a Family on a Small Budget

How to raise a family on a small budget...and still be amazingly happy too!

My sweet bloggin’ sisters now tease me about being the “small budget lady” because I’ve written so many posts on this topic. They’ve even joked about changing the name of our blog because of it. Well, here I go again! What can I say? Living life on a small budget is something I know a […]

Tips for Visiting a New Mom

I remember when my sister-in-law, Trisha in fact, had her very first. It was the first grandbaby on our side and we were all BEYOND thrilled. Mom picked us up early from school in our trusty minivan and we high tailed it over to the Ogden hospital, even though it was a blizzard outside and […]