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Simple Hairstyles: Side Braid

Here in Arizona it’s nearly always hot. When my hair is long, I am always looking for ways to wear it down but not have it feeling hot and heavy. Wearing my hair down in a side braid is the perfect solution for a fun style that is…

Homemade Tile and Grout Cleaner

Homemade Tile and Grout Cleaner

Spring cleaning is well underway at my household. With a big move coming up, I have started to deep clean my entire home. Part of this cleaning process includes scrubbing my tile floor. I have tried MANY different methods to clean my tile. However, I recently discovered the…

Household Chores Checklist by Room

Keeping your home in order can be simplified if you tackle a room per day or break down all of your responsibilities and recruit your family members to help. This household chores checklist breaks down all the responsibilities by room. You can use this chore checklist to schedule…

Picasa Free Editing Software Tutorial

Picasa is a completely free editing software that gives you the ability to make simple, and more complex edits to your photos with little effort. I use Picasa nearly daily to edit my photos both for personal use and for adjusting pictures I use on my blog. I…

Visual Chore Cards Cleaning Routine

I got the idea for creating individual flash cards to create a chore cards system for my cleaning routine because I love checklists. I love being able to feel like I have really accomplished something without the only sign of a completed job just being a wiped down…

Spring Cleaning Checklist

Spring is always a great reminder to get our homes clean and organized again! Letting in some of that daylight and getting motivated to get around to some of those jobs we don’t do on a regular basis can help us feel great about our homes again even…

My New Year Goals & Tips to Accomplish Your Goals

Can you believe it is already February? Now is a great time to reassess your personal goals you set for yourself and your family for 2013. How are you doing? Is it time to commit, once again, to those goals you set your sights on for this year?…

Thoughts on finding out baby’s gender!!

I am now 19 weeks pregnant (as of Saturday) and I have an ultrasound scheduled for this friday April 16th. My Sister-in-Law is 2 weeks behind me and they’ve decided (this is baby #2) they aren’t going to find out the sex of the baby at their ultrasound…

my garden

My Garden!

I’ve recently become a huge fan of gardening! My husband and I started our first garden a year ago and had planted tomatoes, jalapenos, watermelons, green onions and a few other things. The green onions we used a lot and got a lot of produce from and really…