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Improved time management skills for families

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Unless you’re one of those (rare) people who is always on time, this bundle is for you – these books are going on my reading list ASAP!

Running a household, caring for children and still finding time to pursue your passions is not an easy order, but this week’s bundle is designed to give you the tools to make the most of the 24 hours you’re given each day. Discover tips for creating schedules and routines, the importance of rest, strategies to help you be on time and more!

Get . . . → Read More: Improved time management skills for families

Review: Simplified Dinners & Paperless Home Organization

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I’ve recently had the opportunity to read – and try out the methods – from three ebooks by Mystie Winckler of Simplified Pantry. The first, Paperless Home Organization, helps you create, using tools available freely online, a paper-free recordkeeping and to-do system, using a streamlined, easy-to-follow workflow. The second and third, Simplified Dinners and Simplified Dinners Gluten Free/Dairy Free, are recipes books designed to make a busy family’s menu planning, grocery shopping, and cooking much easier and . . . → Read More: Review: Simplified Dinners & Paperless Home Organization

Five Healthy Real-Food Cookbooks

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Bundle of the Week is a fantastic deal; each week, a themed ebook bundle is just $7.40. (That’s only $1.48 per title!)

This week’s Bundle of the Week contains five ebooks from Katie Kimball at Kitchen Stewardship! There’s a little something for everyone here; titles include:

Healthy Snacks To Go – Heatlthy snacks to go has more than 45 healthy snack and recipe suggestions, including granola bars, iron-packed Popeye bars, and a dozen “larabar-style” varieties. This will quickly become your go-to resource for healthy . . . → Read More: Five Healthy Real-Food Cookbooks

Easy, Homemade Pantry Staples From Scratch

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I love cookbooks. I love simple. I *really* love inexpensive home versions of products that I’d other wise have to pay a premium for the “convenience”.

Put all of these things together, and look what goodie I found?

It’s called Easy. Homemade. And it has more than 60 recipes for pantry staples from scratch.

Though it’s also available directly from Amazon and Barnes & Noble for Kindle and Nook, if you purchase straight from the web page, you’ll receive both the Kindle and Nook versions in addition to the PDF . . . → Read More: Easy, Homemade Pantry Staples From Scratch

Happy Easter!

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

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Best last minute cookie recipe ever

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I have a secret recipe that I use for those OH NO WE FORGOT WE’RE SUPPOSED TO BRING A DESSERT moments…

It can be mixed in a minute or two, spooned onto cookie sheets in a couple more, and if you bake just the single recipe, it makes about 24 generously-sized or 30 smaller cookies – so it really *can* be done and cooling in a half an hour.

Double the recipe, add some baking time. Count in time for frosting if you do that – or just add chocolate chips or sprinkles, and they’re ready . . . → Read More: Best last minute cookie recipe ever

Scribbling on the windows

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The kids love window decor – so much so, that we still had a few of those vinyl Easter clings on the sliding glass door til Halloween, when of course, the Halloween clings went up… and then Christmas… and come January, we needed something new. January is rather barren of cute window clings.

Chey and I were browsing the kid-art supplies in the local discount store when we discovered Crayola’s Window Markers and Window Crayons. In an effort to change things up, some of the “Crystal Effect” Window Markers came home with us. We love the . . . → Read More: Scribbling on the windows

Happy New Year!

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Best wishes for you and yours in the coming year. Do you have any resolutions? What are your plans for school this year? Any year-long or 365 projects in the works? We’re still thinking about ours… we’ll let you know.

Make sure to come back tomorrow for the first of my new blog planner freebies, a great way to start the year off right!