Category: stay-at-home mom

Let’s Start May with a Sprinkle of Joy: Announcing the Giveaway Winner!

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I want to start May off with a sprinkle of joy on the blog today. Let’s see who has won our Kids’ Summer Reading Giveaway! This winner will receive a copy of each of the three recently published books for their kids. Congratulations are in order to………. Linda Jackson!!! Hurray, Linda!! I hope your children will love these books. To read more about each of these 3 books, see my full review here. ***Disclaimer: When you purchase through Amazon links […]

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3 New Children’s Books for Summer & A Giveaway!

4 kids, books, giveaways, grandparents, parenting, stay-at-home mom, summer
summer reading giveaway

This past month I had the pleasure of reading a few new children’s books that I think your kids will love this summer. ***When you purchase through links on my website, I do collect advertising fees from the Amazon.*** Best of all, these books each have a different character-building lesson in them. They are beautifully illustrated too. When you shop online, it is hard to know what exactly is in any book you have never read before. That can be […]

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20 Boy Mom Quotes That Will Make You Smile

4 kids, boy mom, funny stories, stay-at-home mom
funny boy mom quotes

As a mom of four boys, I love coming across cute quotes about being a boy mom. These are all quotes about being a boy mom that anyone raising a boy, or two, or seven, will enjoy. I created fun pictures for some of them too so you can save them on Pinterest. I tend to save more funny quotes than I do helpful articles. Ha! Or I save the helpful content on Pinterest, but I do not actually ever […]

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Where to Begin When You are New to Home Schooling

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new to home schooling

Are you new to home schooling? Have you ever thought about home schooling your children, but you were not sure where to start? I have another Guest post for you! We have Amanda Wilson, author of Heading into Homeschool: A Faith-Based Step-by-Step Plan for Beginning to Homeschool . You can also find Amanda at www.maestramom.com. She blogs about home schooling and parenting, and she has many helpful resources on her website too. Amanda’s book is all about getting started with […]

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A New Blog for a New Phase

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A New Blog for a New Phase

You can now find me at my new blog: gettingmyacttogether.com. It’s still the same me, talking about many of the same things, just less “stories of our boys” and more stories of organizing, decluttering, moving, Army life, and always learning. I hope you’ll join me over there! I’ve also started a YouTube series about getting the house ready to sell and moving. So far all of the videos have been about decluttering and organizing. We are moving again this summer. […]

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What My Realistic List of Daily Goals Actually Looks Like

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I have written about my goals on this website many, many times. Usually I dream moderately big. I mean, I’m not over here trying to be a movie star or anything like that, but I do tend to think I can accomplish a respectable amount of things, and really that isn’t always the case. Truth be told, I usually fall well short of my published goals. Anyway, so I thought it would be fun to share my list of PURELY […]

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How to Make a Revolutionary War Cake

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How to Make a Revolutionary War Cake

It was 9pm, just two nights before my son’s tenth birthday when he said, “I’m so excited about my Revolutionary War cake!” Pause the world. What was he talking about??? I had not plans for a Revolutionary War cake! But as he talked about it, I began to vaguely recall him mentioning wanting one. The thing is he seemed to want something different every two days, so I had not married myself to any one particular plan. I did not […]

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Life in 2021: The Podcast, The Decorated Trashcan, & They Say it’s Not the Covid.

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Poor Alan. He is legit running a hospital here this weekend. Don’t worry. It is not the COVID, according to two tests at our local urgent care center. And yet, Alan and Daniel are the only two still standing. It starts as a scratchy throat, then it is sore. Snot kicks in, and for Caleb and me there is a cough. You can see why we worried it was covid or strep, but it is not. I have been up […]

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Finally Going to Our First Day of Hybrid School on March 1st

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Coronavirus Semi-Lockdown Day #352 I thought this day might not even come this year, but here is it, on a rainy Monday. The boys are back in school! Last night, I thoroughly combed through the newly revised school supply list, making sure both of my elementary school boys have everything they need. It probably took us an hour to get it all ready, but it was a glorious feeling. Today it was easy to get them up in time because […]

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A Day in the Life of a Virtual School Mom

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***This post contains Amazon ads. If you order through these, I do earn fees. Thanks.*** How is year 2 of the COVID going for everyone so far? Anyone else still virtual schooling? I know almost everyone in our area is. There are days I wish I had jumped on the private school bandwagon fast enough to get one of those spots. However, other days I remind myself I need to try to enjoy this extra time I have been gifted […]

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