Happy Homemaker Monday - 06/30/2014

Happy Monday morning everyone, how are you doing today? Well, it's the start of a new week, a new summer week and the blank canvas is before us.  What will you be doing, anything exciting?  This week I plan on taking it easy and relaxing, plus getting some things done around here and finishing …

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{ Weekend Chit Chat }

It's Sunday night....really?  Already? The weekend just came and went so quick and I didn't get to do anything, other than cleaning the old house and housework around this new one.  Seems to be the story of my life lately though. Buuuuttttttt, Friday night I had a most wonderful evening out…

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{ Summer Reading List }

With my busy life lately, I have found that my moments for reading have dwindled, if not completely disappeared. Oh I love reading, I just don't have the time and when I finally sit down for a moment, more often than not I am fast asleep.  Just ask my husband who is quite used to me sitting ne…

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{ Then this happened.... }

Sometimes unexpected things happen....and sometimes they leave you perplexed and wondering, just what in the world??? Aside from a few bruises here and there and some muscle soreness and tiredness, my husband and I have managed to make it through this move, pretty much unscathed.  Then this mornin…

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Happy Homemaker Monday - 06/23/2014

Good Morning dear friends, how was your weekend? Mine was very good, filled with family and good food and a crazy soccer game.  Oh my!!!  Nerve wrecking, nail biting, craziness all rolled into 90 minutes. Here we are again, Monday morning, and this time I'm back.  Last week I couldn't put t…

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{ Beating the dust with Dust-Off }

Dust.....it's just everywhere isn't it?  It's forever been the bane of my existence, not only because it's a constant in the house and on every surface, but because it wreaks havoc with my allergies. Back in Arizona I had the worst time trying to keep it under control, I would dust…

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{ Spiders and cobwebs and dust....oh my }

Guess what I tackled today? The garage.  Yep, the big ol garage.  As we brought things from the other house, we dumped them in the garage and then unpacked from there.  It worked out just fine, but as I stepped into the garage this morning, I was faced with a big ol mess that I just was tired of se…

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{ Beauty in everything }

Do you know that it's up to us to see the beauty in everything we do, and everything that surrounds us? It's very easy to see the mess, the disorganization, the boxes, the fact that random things still litter the living room.  It's all right there, in our faces, a constant reminder tha…

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{ Home Sweet Home }

I woke up this morning to beautiful sunshine streaming through the kitchen windows, and there really is nothing more glorious than early morning light, is there? The first night we moved in was Friday, but we didn't have internet set up here, so I couldn't get online or give anyone an upda…

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