What a Difference Hair Makes!

Rocky our Great Pyrenees was shaved today. Amazing difference. He went from 98 pounds to 92 pounds.

How to Check for Ticks

I love our animals but sometimes they bring us an unwanted critter.Ticks carry diseases such as Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever and ehrlichiosis. Eeeewwwww!

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Menu planning is something we intend to do when we get around to it or “when I’m get organized.” But this is backward thinking, menu planning should be your first step to getting organized.
A lack of meal planning means wasted money, extra trips to the store, frustration and cooking boredom. [...]

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Our Two New Shichon Puppies

We went to choose our Shichon (pronounced She Sean) puppy from two different litters and ended up with one puppy from each litter. We named the white puppy Frosty but we need help naming the second puppy. Submit your dog names in the comments for a chance to win the prize listed below.

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How to Cut a Mango & Mango Salsa Recipe

If you haven’t had mango salsa you are in for a real treat. Serve with tortilla chips or on fish(Orange Roughy or salmon).

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Christopher’s 8th Birthday Party

Anthony turned 18 and Christopher turned on May 15. Happy Birthday Boys! Anthony was home from college and celebrated with friends. We had a party for Christopher at home.

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LeapFrog Didj: Educational Handhelp Game

Have you been in a game store? Thousands of games on a wall with almost no educational value. What are they thinking?
Can you imagine the conversation in game company boardrooms. “I know education is in critical condition in America but the kids want shoot-em up games–and we make billions on them–so lets make more shoot-em [...]

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Homemaking is Not About Perfection

Homemaking is a calling, a blessing and an art. Raising a family and taking care of your home is NOT easy! Be kind to yourself.

The Home
Remember that the home is also where you “live”. Things are constantly changing. Things are being used. People sleep, eat and breathe at home. Most family members are home more [...]

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Kids and Clutter: Teach Kids to Clean Up After Themselves

My boys are messy. Lord, Grant me patience to endure my blessings. I spend way to much precious time picking up after them.
Yesterday I took them at by the hand–room to room–to remind them of basic instructions.

I started the tour using my Nice Mommy Voice, “You are not house guests. You are members of [...]

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Must Have for Lego Fans: Lego Digital Designer Free Download

My boys are in Lego heaven since we downloaded FREE Lego Digital Designer. I am too becasue it keeps them busy for hours and I don’t have to pick up a zillion Lego pieces or pay the high prices for Lego kits!
This is one cool program. You can build the things you wish to [...]

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Announcing Our New Kid

Our new Billy Kid arrived yesterday. He will breed with our twin girls and Lord willing, we should have babies in September! (Goat gestation is 5 months). . He is a tri-colored Nigerian Dwarf. He’s the color or dark chocolate, light chocolate and a marshmallow so we are calling him Cocoa. He is 4 [...]

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Organizing and Storing CD and DVD Disks in Binders

Are those little round disks are taking over your house and car? Are these expensive disks in stacks and junk drawers all over the house getting scratched?
I’ve tried several different cataloging and organizing systems and I am happy with my CD Binder System I started using about 5 years ago (no more jewel cases). [...]

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Disease Can be Cured Naturally

One quarter of what you eat keeps you alive. Three quarters of what you eat supports your doctor.
With nutritionally-depleted foods, chemical additives and our tendency to rely upon pharmaceutical drugs to treat what’s wrong with our malnourished bodies, it’s no wonder that modern society is getting sicker.
According to a 2003 medical report Death by Medicine, [...]

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Reclaim Your Garage

Garages are often a dumping place for all of our dirty, messy, unused, unneeded stuff. After all, who wants that stuff in the house! What’s wrong with this picture? just because you can’t see it - why keep dirty, messy, unused, unneeded stuff in the first place? Instead, think of your garage as part of your home, part of your life, and a space to utilize in a way that enhances your lifestyle!

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Unleavened Bread Recipes

This week begins the Feast of Unleavened Bread (Lev 23:6, Exodus 12:15-17). During this week-long feast, nothing with leaven (yeast) in it may be eaten. Leaven is the symbol of all that is unclean and evil and therefore must scrupulously be removed from all houses before the Passover feast.

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17 Ridiculously Useful Tips to Make Life Easier

Heating leftover pizza, easy deviled eggs, expand frosting, reheating bread, newspaper weeds away, picking up broken glass, squirrel away, flexible vaccumm, foggy windshields, get rid of ants and more ideas.

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Benefits of a Square Foot Garden

The last few weeks I’ve been studying the benefits of Square Foot Gardening. The concept is brilliant. It involves creating 4×4 raised beds. You never walk on your garden only the paths between. Conventional gardening demands using heavy work to loosen the soil, but here the soil stays loose and loamy. Weeding is easy too because of the soil.

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Why You Should Take Probiotics

I began taking probiotics a few months ago to help with digestive problems. I was diagnosed with Crohns and began a nutritional regimen. Two months later the doctors said I did not have Crohns–it must have been a wrong diagnoses. Where they wrong or was I getting healed?
I’m still not sure what is going on. [...]

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How Did We Survive?

Looking back, it’s hard to believe that we’ve lived this long…
As children we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat.
Our baby cribs were painted with bright colored lead based paint. We [...]

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7 Amazing Benefits of Fish Oil

Hubby and I have been taking Omega 3 fish oil tablets for years as recommended by our cardiologist. It makes perfect sense. Mankind was meant to live near the water and fish was to be a mainstay in our diets.

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Steam Cleaning Frenzy

The two dirtiest, yuckiest, stained places in my house were my stove and refrigerator. When we bought this house, the top of the stove and ice/water area on the refrigerator were terribly stained. I have scrubbed each many, many times with every natural cleaner, chemical cleaner you can imagine. I could not get either clean.
I [...]

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The Clutter Diet

Are you ready to declutter for spring?
The Clutter Diet is a helpful, motivating blog, I recommend subscribing to it. Don’t know how to subscribe to a blog? See What is RSS and How Can it Make My Like Easier. I subscribe to The Clutter Diet Blog on my Kindle.
I love the Clutter Diet’s diet [...]

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Washington Redskins Cat

Yes, we are Redskin fans. Even our animals are Redskin fans.

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March Snow?

“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”
Edith Sitwell
March 1 and we have snow. I’m a Florida gal. I can’t wait for spring. But the boys had a ball [...]

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Organize Your Purse

Organizing your purse can be easy with our new Pouchee Purse Organizer! Are you always hunting for your glasses, can’t find your lipstick, have to dig for your check book? Now those days are over! You can find all your essentials as easy as 1-2-3!

One side has credit card pockets and a smaller pocket (pen, [...]

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Tackling a Stuffed Closet

A stuffed closet is mentally draining. The clutter of clothes that do not look good on you or or don’t fit will only cause frustration. Getting dressed in the morning sets the tone for the entire day. If your closet is a perpetual state of disorder you start out each day irritated.
Steps

Sort clothing and [...]

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12 Alternative Uses for Coffee Filters

All these handy uses for coffee filters! ..who knew! Be frugal, uy 1,000 at the Dollar stores very cheaply.

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ER Nurse’s Description of a Heart Attack

I had emergency open heart surgery at 52 years old. My left main artery (aka window maker) was 90% clogged. My only symptom — fatigue. I received via email and its worth passing on:

I am an ER nurse and this is the best description of this event that I have ever heard. Please read, pay attention.

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Baking Soda, Banana Peels, Baby Oil, and Beyond!

I like home remedies and prefer alternative uses for things like baking soda, vinegar, etc. for household cleaners over fancy packaged expensive cleaners.

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