Sooooo, I told everyone in this blog post here why I chose to start intermittent fasting as a way to lose weight and get healthy. I have officially been following this plan for a whole month now. Guess what?? I am LOVING it!!! That’s not to say that it hasn’t been without a few struggles here and there, because it has. But, no where near to what I have dealt with when I have tried other diets and weight loss plans. As opposed to those, I can honestly see making this a new way of life. Now for what I know you all really want to know…what are my results??…
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Preparing for Your Foster Child
So, you have made the decision to foster! You found an agengy. Completed your training, and passed your home study. Now what? Now comes the fun part! Getting your house and the kid’s rooms ready for when they arrive! But, what do you need to get? How do you decorate their rooms? How do you know what they will like? How do you make them feel at home? There is so much to figure out!! When we were waiting on the boys to move in, our house was literally flipped on it’s head. We had to shuffle bedrooms for my three biological kids and then make room for three new…
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Setting Routines for Kids After School
I was in Starbucks the other day, and I happened to hear a couple of moms talking about how much trouble they had getting their school age kids to finish all their responsibilities and get into bed on school nights. Homework time took forever. Showers were balked at. They were out of their bed three or four times for drinks or questions. You get the idea. And, I totally got it. I remember those days. These days, though, we don’t struggle with any of it. One advantage of having a lot of kids is you have time to perfect things. My kids are older now and for the most part…
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Why I Chose Intermittent Fasting to Lose Weight
If you know me, you know I am not skinny. I am not even overweight. At this point I am classified in the obese. I have known for a while that I needed to do something to get healthier. The question was what? (This post may contain affiliate links. We may earn commission when you click on them at no additional cost to you.) I know lots of people who had great success with Keto, but…I really like my carbs. Short term, I would do ok on Keto, but from previous experience, I knew that it was not a plan I would want to stay on for months. Besides, once…
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How to Help Your Kids Start Their Own Business
Do your kids have lots of things they want to do this summer, but no money to do them? Help your child learn some entrepreneurial skills and let them start their own business!
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When Video Games Control Your Child
As I was browsing some parenting groups last night on Facebook, one post made me stop and think about how far we had come with a similar issue. The mom was concerned because her son, who was around 14, had no actual in person friends. All of his friends were online through his video games. The boy didn’t go out and socialize, and he didn’t have friends over. Other parents started chiming in about how they were concerned with this as well. Having seven kids, I see this to varying degrees in my own house, but I wouldn’t say any of my kids are not physically social in the real…
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What to Expect When You Adopt a Teenager
I am going to be a completely real with you today. I am going to talk about the reality (at least mine) of teenage adoption. If you read my blog, you know that we have seven kids. Three are ours biologically, three came to us through adoption and one is a bit of a bonus kid who kind of adopted us. When you adopt a teen, you are adopting a child who has an entire other life time full of experiences that you were not a part of. They had an entire other family that wasn’t you. You are signing on to parent a kid who was not shaped by…
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Life Lessons I Learned From My Dog
Last night, our dog passed away unexpectedly. It left everyone sad and a bit shocked at how sudden it was. Our dog, Snickers, was honestly a bit of a pain in the ass. He had a tendency to think any box I happened to set down was a tree. He barked literally at everyone including family members every. single. time. they came through the front door (and with nine of us, you can imagine how often that was!) But, he also sang “I love you!” in chorus with the kids. He amused everyone by making one of the bottom cabinets his home. He would poke his head out of the cabinet…
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How We Became Nine – Part 2
Read part two on our journey through fostercare and adoption to go from a family of five to a family of nine.
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Pumpkin Carving Craziness
One of our favorite family traditions for Halloween is our annual Pumpkin Carving night!
