Category: Balancing the Busy

Get Creative with Your Leftovers

get creative with your leftovers

Just a quick note today because I wanted to share. I had a conundrum when getting today’s lunch ready last night. I was going to have leftover flank steak on a salad but we are having beef for dinner and I didn’t want to go crazy on the red meat. So I scavenged through the …

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“Having Time” vs. “Making Time”

When I talk about balancing life I often think about the concept of “having time” vs. “making time.” A while back I caught myself using the excuse that I don’t have time to volunteer to the excess that the other class moms do. Then I found out that they both work full time. Oops. Guess …

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How to Keep Chasing Your Dreams When Your Feet Get Heavy

Chase down your passion like it's the last bus of the night

***I am celebrating my 100th blog post today! Yay us!!! If it wasn’t for you, my readers, my cheerleaders, I wouldn’t have had the inspiration to keep at this. Thank you!!***   Do you have a dream of something you would like to do someday? Go back to school to earn a degree, travel to …

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How to Shop Garage Sales

How to Shop Garage Sales- 10 tips

A few months back I wrote a piece, How to Make your Next Yard Sale a Success. It was an extensive “how-to” prepare, price, display, etc. Now that garage sale season is in full swing, you may not only be holding your own sale, but shopping at them too. Garage sales are great for finding …

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My Love/Hate Relationship with Pinterest

I love Pinterest. Until I hate it. I love finding healthy recipes and inspiration to live well…..until it starts making me feel guilty for the second glass of wine and dark chocolate sitting beside my keyboard. I love reading inspirational quotes until I go back out into the world, realizing that there are a lot …

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