My gal Carrie of Normal Level of Crazy is bringing the scoop this month! I think she is brilliant and real and funny, and for the record, I completely agree with her words about our Truly Madly Guilty Book Club. So I’ll leave her to it! ************************************************************************* To say that I was looking forward to […]
Mom of the Year Marketplace Directory
Dude! You know that boss feeling when something you poured a whole lot into goes really, really well? Totally the delight I’m rocking after rolling out The Mom of the Year Marketplace last month! Friends, it was a brilliant win! Among the countless rave reviews I heard from Marketplace users: “Within an hour, two plumbers contacted me […]
5 Easy Ways to Preserve Herbs for the Entire Year
Now that’s been a couple of months since I planted my raised bed garden, I am up to my ears in fresh vegetables and herbs! This makes my wallet content because it means I can dry and store my herbs and never have to buy them at the store throughout the year. With so many herbs, I […]
4 Grocery Shopping Money-Saving Tips
Ever have one of those months where you find yourself saying, “where did all our money go?” or “where did all the food go?” With multiple mouths to feed those two questions usually occupy the same breath. A trip to the grocery store can be exasperating for anyone trying to stay in budget and provide a well balanced […]
The Weekend Bed and Bath Renovation Project
***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
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 […]
3 Smart Benefits of Joining a CSA
We are in the thick of produce season, moms! Every year at this time I tickled to grab fresh, local produce and eat delicious vegetables grown in my hometown. If you followed along with my tutorial on how to build a raised garden bed at the beginning of summer, you may already have an abundance of fresh veggies right in […]
5 Ways to Smartly Shop Consignment Sales
***This post about how to smartly shop consignment sales is sponsored by JBF Reading.*** Long about oh, 7 years, 9 months, and 16 days ago, as I was well into my first pregnancy and solidly representing a whale, a startling realization occurred to me, “Oh crap! Kids need stuff!”. In an effort to manage the […]
How Make a DIY Care Package Gift
My best friend Stacie moved away this year. We were always a few states apart, but this year she moved to the left coast. I’m not sure exactly of the miles, but it feels like a million. It was as if all the distance collected in my heart and sank it to the bottom of my […]
The Trap of Seeing the Trees
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 […]
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