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Try Chia Seed Pudding for a Healthy Snack
Have you ever tried chia seed pudding? Have you made chia seed pudding? I finally jumped on the chia seed pudding train a few years ago and for the tip of the week I want to see if I can get you excited about it too! It’s a super healthy snack or side to add to…
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Building Your Marriage One Daily Habit at a Time
Over my life I have learned that creating good relationships takes effort. As our children grew up we had habits that brought us together each day. They included dinner as a family, scripture study, praying as a family and for a period of time we did “family core” which consisted of push-ups, sit-ups, and planks. …
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Supporting Friends with Long-term Illness
Over the years we all deal with long-term or chronic illnesses either ourselves or with friends and family. This is a picture of my Dad when he was dealing with a serious long-term illness. I have recently had several friends and family diagnosed with breast cancer. Treatments for this range from a lumpectomy + 6…
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Keep Track of Gift Ideas
As an empty nester, your family may be growing, and keeping track of gift ideas for all of your family members may be becoming more of a challenge. Over the last 7 years, I have gained 4 son/daughter-in-laws and 3 granddaughters with a grandson due to arrive in the next few weeks. That’s quite a…
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Get Inspired to Plant Spring Bulbs
Last spring I had the pleasure of visiting three amazing flower displays. The first was the tulips in Pella, Iowa. The second was the Tulip Festival at The Ashton Gardens at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi, Utah and the final one was The Flower Fields in Carlsbad, California. I saw so many glorious flowers. I am…
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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…
