5 Fun Father’s Day gift ideas!

Father's Day is coming up and that is a pretty important holiday in our house.  Let me tell you why-- it is simple really.. my kids have the best dad!  They're pretty lucky 🙂  I really want to make this Father's Day special for him so I will have to get creative. I've kind of set the …

Hello June

Well, after a long and painful May/beginning of June-- I'm back.  I don't even know where to begin regarding the last few weeks.  I guess at the beginning.  Monday the 15th I took my son to school and got a walk in at the lake with my friend emily. It was a perfect day and …

FYI

Hello everyone.  I'm sure you noticed there was no Quick Tip Tuesday.  You're probably thinking, she's late... again.  But actually, I thought about it a lot and really just wasn't up to it.  It is hard to think of much else lately other than family. A few weeks ago my father in law was admitted to the …

Quick Tip Tuesday: Target Red Perks & Cartwheel

I am addicted to Target.  There, I said it.  Admitting it is the first step right? hahaha.  My first job was at Target, so this has been a long obsession.  As for me, I didn't need any reason to go there more often... but good o'l Target is always looking out for me and they …

Parenting during stressful life events: 7 things to remember.

This week has been a whirlwind.  We planned out our dinners on Sunday, made it through school drop off on Monday and I even got a walk in at the lake with my friend Emily!  It seemed that the week was starting off nicely (aside from an extremely hard drop off at school Monday morning-- …

Blogger Recognition Award!

To my surprise I was nominated for the Blogger Recognition Award!! I'm so excited.  I've been blogging for a few years but just recently started my "mom blog."  I love it!  Blogging is a wonderful release! (Accidentally typed Clogging at first and that image made me lol) I love sharing my tips and tricks, recommendations, opinions and …

Recipe: Perfect baked chicken

Last week was long.  Last week was difficult.  Last week, we ate out 5 times.  Every single night of the work week we got take out.  It is awful.  I'm ashamed.  So... yesterday I was determined to cook this weekend!  I went to the store and bought a pack of chicken with 0 plans on …

Quick Tip Tuesday: Diaper Bag Dispenser

My quick Tip Tuesday is late again 😩. In my defense ...this is due to my computer issues. The fan broke on my laptop and it won't be back until tomorrow. So... this got delayed! Doing updates from your phone is hard!  Anyway...here we go. (edit: got my husband's work computer to complete this... mobile …

Sunscreen review: Badger Kids SPF 30

Ahhhhh! My computer died. This is the ultimate mom thing...my kids used my computer as a trampoline and suddenly it was really loud and finally died on me. Now it is at the computer store getting a new fan 😩. I am lost without it! So this is why I've been MIA. I have missed …

Quick Tip Tuesday: One Weird thing!

Okay, so...  the tip this Tuesday is a bit weird.  Bear with me.  I discovered this very early in my mom life.  My son was 5 or 6 months and he wouldn't stop crying.  Nothing was right, everything was wrong.  I didn't know what else to do so I started singing a high pitched note …