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The Weekend Bed and Bath Renovation Project

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***This post is sponsored by C2 Paint, which truly made all the difference in the success of our bed and bath renovation project. Read on to find out why!*** If you’ve hung with me for any bit of time, you know that our home is a constant work-in-progress. More accurately stated, it’s a mess-in-process, but hey, why […]

A Real Life Back to School Shopping Survival Tale

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I imagine hence forth my life will now settle into two distinct eras: the time before I took my children back to school shopping last week and days following this fated venture. The thing is, I could lie, friends. I could say it was exhaustively draining, and I’m praising God that we crossed that beast off the list for […]

The Trap of Seeing the Trees

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I very much wanted to title this post “The Treeing It Trap”, but Google informs me treeing is a method of using dogs to chase animals up trees for hunting purposes. Huh. While we strive to cover a variety of topics of interest here at Mom of the Year, I can’t say that hunting in trees is a […]

Why You Need the White Space

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I’ve gotten schooled this summer, friends. You see, these overly full, sunshiny days have been teaching me a hard lesson. Albeit, the lesson is effortlessly delivered with a hefty dose of sweet fun to soften the blow, but nevertheless, we’re talking about a cold, hard truth. And the truth is that I need white space.  What the heck […]

Book Club Takes a Modern Twist with Eligible

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Welcome back to book club, friends! Thanks for hanging out with us last month as we did a fun celebration of all the hot summer reads. Hopefully you’re still digging deep into that list while enjoying the sunshiny days of August. We’re now circling back to Eligible: A Modern Retelling of Pride and Prejudice, and my […]

The Children’s Journal that Makes a Difference

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***This post about a children’s journal is sponsored by The Big Life Journal*** As parents, I believe we always try to do it right. The problem is, I don’t think we always know how to do it right. We want to teach our kids the good stuff, the stuff that will help them develop into productive and purposeful […]

Keep Healthy Summer Foods Healthy!

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***This post about healthy summer foods is sponsored by Tessamae’s*** I have a teensy bit of a problem with recipes in my kitchen. As in, I don’t use them. While my methodically-bent husband gapes in horror at my wing-it approach, my favorite season to toss dishes together is summer. Grabbing a bunch of fresh veggies from […]