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Okay. I know you have heard this one before, but I can not NOT mention it. Especially when we are talking about kids and getting back to school.
Every home needs a launch pad. It is just a simple place where you put everything so it is ready to go out the door as you do. [...]

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Working Toward Back To School – The Daily Routine

I don’t know about you, but I think one of the cruelest parts of going back to school is that it comes just after I have really settled in to living without a watch for a good portion of the day. In Summer a large portion of activities are time flexible. To successfully get through [...]

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Working Toward Back to School – List and Gather Day

There are so many little details you need to take care of to prepare to go back to school. There are things you need to do. There are things you need to find or buy. There are appointments to be made. Then, whew, that first day of school arrives. Now you will be deluged with [...]

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Working Toward Back To School. I’m In A Pickle!

Are you ready to send the kids back to school? I’m not. Yet.
I have a bit of a disaster on my hands and I thought I would share ALL of the ugly specifics with you over the next couple of weeks as I belatedly pull my act together to get ready for the school year.
Now, [...]

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You Are NEVER Going to Complete Your To Do List

You are never going to complete your To Do list. It is not your fault, it is just the nature of that particular beast. It is time to quit looking at your own list like a cruel task master, learn to leave the guilt and frustration behind, and begin using it simply as a tool to get things done!

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Goulash Recipes – per Request

When making up your meal plans, try to come up with many meals that will give you a two for one. You can make extra of some ingredients the first night specifically to utilize the leftovers to concoct dinner a second night. I will give you a few examples, but anyone can look at the ingredients of the meals they already typically make to come up with recipes that will reduce cooking time on a second meal.

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Hello All! (And a question on your limitations)

Is anyone still there? I am still healing and rehabbing the ole back, but I am going to try to start writing here again. I have really appreciated the couple of comments and all of the email sending me love. They meant more to me than you could know. Thank you all so much.
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I Am MIA and Counting My Blessings

I have missed you all.
Sometime early in the month, I think while working in the garden, I herniated a disc in my lower back. When I sit, the disc pinches my sciatic nerves. These are nerves that normally go unnoticed. When irritated they send pain radiating through both cheeks, down through the thighs, the calves, [...]

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Menu Planning Part 3 – Cooking Big

Large family gatherings are big around this part of the country. It is very common for brothers, sisters, cousins, moms and dads, aunts and uncles, PLUS additional friends to all gather once a week at Granny’s. Especially on Sunday afternoons. In addition, when I was growing up, our house was where all of the kids [...]

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Menu Planning Part 2

I came up with a way to eliminate the long store trip while working my grocery shopping into the ridiculous hurry up and wait 10 minutes here and there schedule I was bound. It may not work for everyone, but it may be a big help to anyone working full time doing their shopping on the way home, or to anyone else always on the run with errands. I will write a list at the end of the article for many individual things anyone could try to shave a little time or stress from their grocery shopping.

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