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How to Speed Up Your Fall Garden Clean-up
Fall is on it’s way and with that many of us will be raking leaves and cutting back plants to get ready for the snow. My tip this week has to do with the tool pictured above. Hedge trimmers are my go-to implement for cutting back perennials. Two or three clips from these guys and…
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Are the Linens Clean? What’s the wifi Password?
Now that I don’t have kids living at home with me, I have a few extra beds in my house. Sometimes when people come to stay with me they take the sheets off as they leave and then I get the bed made up right away. Sometimes they leave them on and I wait awhile…
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Organization – Ideas to help you be successful with it
Look around you. You are surrounded by stuff. Take me for example. I am sitting in a bedroom that used to be one of my daughters. There’s a bed, desk, window seat, typewriter, trumpet, stuffed toys, and a closet that has old electronics, bins of my father-in-law’s journals, old clothes, memorabilia, and who knows what…
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Forget “To Do” Lists! Make a “Done” List!
I don’t know about you but there have been plenty of days in my life when I’ve made a “To Do” list and not completed it – or worse, done nothing on it! Now, that it isn’t because I sat around all day eating chocolate and doing nothing. I admit that I might have gotten…
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Six Tips for Successfully Parenting Adult Children
When you have an empty nest your parenting responsibilities don’t vanish. They change. In a lot of ways you go from being a player in the game to a coach on the sideline watching the game and giving advice here and there or even a spectator who has hardly anything to do with the game…
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How To Have a More Enjoyable Life – Don’t Sit Out
Children are full of energy. They are constantly moving, learning, and doing all kinds of things. So why is it that as adults we don’t keep moving, learning, and doing things like kids do? The answer is simple. We sit out. If you’re at an event, like a wedding, and a dance is going on,…
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Welcome to the Empty Nest Club
It’s back to school time and that might mean you are sending your youngest child off to college. If so, congratulations! Bask in a job well done! Unfortunately, many times we feel more lost than proud – so here are a few ways to cope and even bloom as you join the empty nest club.…
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Stop Procrastinating the Little Things and Take the Quick Win!
Look around. Can you find a few things (even in arm’s reach) that have been nagging at you to do? Most of these will take less than 15 minutes. Spend 5 minutes today working through those things that never seem to get done.
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Figuring out Where to Travel in the USA
Summer is coming to a close but as an empty nester the end of summer doesn’t signal the end of travel since you don’t have kids to send off to school. Fall is a great time to travel since the weather is amazing, there are beautiful fall colors to be seen outside, and the crowds…
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How to Warm Pizza – Skillet Style
Fresh pizza is amazing – soggy pizza, not so much. And soggy pizza is exactly what you get when you warm leftover pizza in the microwave. So how do you get more of that fresh pizza experience with leftover pizza? I know you can warm pizza in an air fryer but I don’t have one. …
