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January 17, 2024

Time for a 2024 Planning Session!

For my 2024 planning session, I sat down with my calendar, a pen, and the kids’ school calendars and roughly planned out the entire year. Have you ever tried that? It sounds simple, but I tell you. I am not sure I have ever done this before. There is something about the possibility of moving that makes you suddenly go into planning overdrive. I have had this 2024 planning session sitting in my calendar for a couple of weeks now, and I keep pushing it off. Sure, it is definitely time to plan out 2024, but when it comes to […]

February 17, 2023

Put Together an Exciting Summer Bucket List for Your Whole Family

Hurray for an exciting “summer bucket list” AND for actually thinking about summer before it even gets here! I confess I am not always able to do that. Or maybe you just found this and you are in the middle of summer looking for ideas. That is okay too. Sometimes life is too busy or uncertain to get to plan far ahead. Trust me, I have been an Army wife for twenty years, so I relate hard to uncertain futures. I am going to give you plenty of ideas here to make your own summer bucket list. Plus, I made […]

January 10, 2023

9 Easy Gluten Free Meals that are Delicious

Gluten free meals can be a daunting thing to find. This is especially true when you are dealing with a new celiac diagnosis or are cooking for a gluten free family. I do have a medical diagnosis that requires me to eat gluten free in order to stay healthy, so I am always on the lookout for easy gluten free meals. Eating more healthy is one of the ways I am always trying to improve myself. Gluten free meals do not have to be complicated or require special ingredients though. As a mom cooking for a family of six, meals […]

January 5, 2023

Goal Planning Broken Down into the Easiest Steps Ever

When I say I need goal planning to be broken down into the easiest steps possible, I mean that whole-heartedly. I have always loved goal setting and planning, but I’ve had to work on breaking it down into tiny steps as I have gotten older and have so many responsibilities as a parent. I need every cheat sheet in the world. What I want to share today is how I break down a goal into tiny more achievable tasks. What we all need to turn our goals into reality is a solid, doable plan. I spent a large amount of […]

July 3, 2022

How to Have a Successful Personal Monthly Planning Session

This is another one of my FAVORITE new ways I have found this year to truly feel like I am getting my act together: the monthly planning session. I originally called it my monthly meeting with myself. But to sound more sane, we will just say “monthly planning session.” The idea of setting aside time to do a monthly planning session is another tip I learned from vishakablone.com. What do I mean by personal monthly planning session? I’m glad you asked. This is a time during the first week of the month where we plan out the whole month that […]

May 31, 2022

A New, Fun Life Hack: The Monthly Reflection

This is a new habit I am adding in this year: the end of month reflection. I was surfing Pinterest last week, while I had all that time in bed with covid. Of course, it is Pinterest, so I found tons of cool things and new blogs to read. Side note: Did you know almost all of Pinterest is blog posts? Yep. It’s the number one place to search out blog posts on any topic. When there’s something you need help with, Pinterest and YouTube are the places to be. It’s just important to take all those perfectionist Pinterest images […]