Adventures in Mothering

Homemade Swiffer Duster Heads

One of these days, life is going to slow down long enough for me to get back to blogging all of the great things I want to share. . In the meanwhile, this was too good not to share with you. I shared how to make mock swiffer pads and other cleaning supplies in Put [...]

Enough

Lately, I’ve heard the word “enough” quite a few times, mostly in the form of questions. The question is usually phrased in one of a few different ways: But is that going to be enough? That’s not enough, is it? Sometimes, it’s even phrased as a statement: I don’t see how that’s going to be [...]

We cut almost $1000 from our monthly household budget!

Hi all. I know it’s been a while since I last posted. Life has been pretty busy here at my house.We’ve been focusing, as a family, on saving even more money on our household budget, as expenses keep rising. If only pay rose too! In doing so, I sat down and wrote a brand new [...]

Changing Seasons

I love Autumn in Michigan, because the sights, smells, colors, and flavors are a refreshing treat after the heat of summer starts to wear on me. My dear husband prefers the hot weather. I prefer the cold. You have to love how opposites attract. Seasons in life change too. I started this website almost nine [...]

Learning to Enjoy the Curves in the Road

I recently heard someone say that how we deal with change and the curve balls life throws at us says more about our character than anything else does. I cringed, because I’m really bad at handling those changes and curve balls. I used to think I really, really had strong faith and that I would [...]

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Soft Tacos with Ground Beef, Lentils, and Jicama

Filed under Getting Healthy, House & Home, Kitchen & Cooking by Kimberly on August 4, 2012 at 10:03 am {no comments}

I’m hoping the above title description doesn’t sound gross to you. It was actually pretty good. I had some cooked up brown (green) lentils in the fridge, left over from some other thing I made for lunch a few days ago. I decided to throw them into my taco meat to extend it. What I [...]

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Healthy Eating and Appetities

Filed under Getting Healthy by Kimberly on August 3, 2012 at 9:56 am {one comment}

I’ve noticed many odd changes in my body over the last two months, since I dramatically changed my eating habits in response to having non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and NASH (non alcoholic steatohepatitis). Now, my normal doc acted like it was not good, but “Alot of people have it” as if that makes it okay. [...]

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How to make your goals work for you

Filed under Frugal Living, Motherhood by Kimberly on August 1, 2012 at 10:05 am {no comments}

On Monday, I talked a little bit about why goals fail. Today, my post is going to zero in a little bit on one of those points: how to make your goals part of your every day life. In our family, we created some long term goals for different things. One of those areas was [...]

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Goals: Pressing Forward towards the Mark

Filed under Getting Healthy, Motherhood by Kimberly on July 30, 2012 at 9:28 am {one comment}

Do you have goals that govern you and how you live your daily life? I don’t think it’s a secret that I’m something of an organizational product junkie. I have had to learn to stop looking for “one more thing” that will make me more organized in the proverbial “three easy steps”. But over the [...]

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Is Contentment Complacency?

Filed under Frugal Living by Kimberly on July 27, 2012 at 10:53 am {one comment}

Is being motivated and driven to improve one’s situation (financial and otherwise) contradictory to the call to be content? Does being content mean being complacent? That’s the heart of a back and forth conversation I’ve been having with someone on Facebook. The conversation has left my brain operating in high gear for a while now, [...]

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