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Getting Up the First Time Your Alarm Goes Off

August 31, 2015 By Shannon This post may contain affiliate links and this site uses cookies. Click here for details.

Getting Up the First Time Your Alarm Goes Off

I remember being annoyed during my freshman year of college when my roommate would hit the snooze button on her alarm multiple times before she’d get out of bed. My sleep would be interrupted each time her alarm sounded! Years later I got married and my husband did something similar. He would have several alarms go off over the course of 20 or … [Read more...] about Getting Up the First Time Your Alarm Goes Off

Filed Under: Reflecting on Life Tagged With: organized living

Getting Exercise as a Busy Homemaker

August 27, 2015 By Shannon This post may contain affiliate links and this site uses cookies. Click here for details.

Getting Exercise as a Busy Homemaker

I’ve noticed that exercise occupies a precarious position in the minds of many women I know. Some shun it because they view it as vain, believing it is only a means of losing weight to become more attractive. Others worship it, spending hours each week pushing themselves to extremes to prove they are stronger than their aching muscles. Still … [Read more...] about Getting Exercise as a Busy Homemaker

Filed Under: Keeping the Home, Promoting Healthful Living Tagged With: health and safety

10 Fun, Frugal Ways to Celebrate Your Anniversary

August 24, 2015 By Shannon This post may contain affiliate links and this site uses cookies. Click here for details.

10 Fun and Frugal Ways to Celebrate Your Anniversary

My husband and I are on a tight budget, but we still want to do something fun to celebrate our wedding anniversary. Thankfully, I’ve thought of a number of fun ways to celebrate without spending a lot of money. Fun and frugal anniversary celebrations Relive your first date. What did you wear on your first date? Where did you go? … [Read more...] about 10 Fun, Frugal Ways to Celebrate Your Anniversary

Filed Under: Enriching Marriage, Managing Finances Tagged With: date night ideas, frugal living, i will, just for fun

Getting to Know a New City to Which You’ve Moved

August 20, 2015 By Shannon This post may contain affiliate links and this site uses cookies. Click here for details.

Getting to Know a New City to Which You’ve Moved

As many of you know, my family just moved from the DC metro area to the outskirts of Houston, TX. We’re slowly settling into life in our new city. We’re somewhat familiar with this area because I lived in Houston while in nursing school, but that was many years ago and I was in a very different part of the city. There’s quite a bit we … [Read more...] about Getting to Know a New City to Which You’ve Moved

Filed Under: Reflecting on Life Tagged With: civic involvement

Which Documents to Keep and Which to Toss

August 17, 2015 By Shannon This post may contain affiliate links and this site uses cookies. Click here for details.

Household Document Management

As we prepared for a move earlier this summer, my husband and I sorted through stacks of paper as part of our attempt to purge our home of stuff we didn’t need. Over and over again we found ourselves debating if we should keep various documents. It’s obvious that we should keep records like birth certificates and our marriage license, but … [Read more...] about Which Documents to Keep and Which to Toss

Filed Under: Keeping the Home, Managing Finances Tagged With: organized living

20 Easy Ways to Flirt with Your Husband

August 13, 2015 By Shannon This post may contain affiliate links and this site uses cookies. Click here for details.

20 Easy Ways to Flirt with Your Husband

Because we recently looked at how flirting with our husbands can benefit our marriages, I thought it’d be a good idea to consider some ways to flirt. After all, if we start giggling excessively or winking at our husbands all the time they may think something is wrong! Thankfully, there are a lot of easy ways to flirt. My husband has … [Read more...] about 20 Easy Ways to Flirt with Your Husband

Filed Under: Enriching Marriage Tagged With: i will, just for fun

How to Have a Genuinely Enjoyable Staycation

August 10, 2015 By Shannon This post may contain affiliate links and this site uses cookies. Click here for details.

How to Have a Genuinely Enjoyable Staycation

A week and a half ago I presented several reasons why staycations aren’t as lame as you might think. Today we’re going to explore some ways to make staycations fun and interesting. I believe that one significant reason staycations have a reputation of being boring is that vacationers often don’t treat them as true vacations. Instead, … [Read more...] about How to Have a Genuinely Enjoyable Staycation

Filed Under: Managing Finances, Reflecting on Life, Strengthening Family Tagged With: frugal living, just for fun

Spicy Lemon Chicken

August 6, 2015 By Shannon This post may contain affiliate links and this site uses cookies. Click here for details.

Spicy Lemon Chicken

We eat a lot of chicken. Without a little creativity, it doesn’t take long for this to become monotonous and boring. One of the easiest and most affordable ways to create variety when cooking with chicken is to use different marinades and/or to top it with various sauces. Spicy Lemon Chicken, which involves a marinade and a sauce, is one of … [Read more...] about Spicy Lemon Chicken

Filed Under: Keeping the Home Tagged With: recipes

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