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Archives for January 2016

Breaking Busy

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Written by Mandy

It's no secret that my 2016 theme is "do less, live more". I have been feeling this nudge for at least a year before I finally gave myself permission to listen to it. At the end of 2015, I basically looked back and realized I'd missed "it". Whatever the IT was, I missed out. A lot of the IT

Snowball Fight…

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Written by Mandy

You know what happens when you shut all your blinds at night because you like to "hide out" so no one can see you? You don't realize that it's snowing. Which means you don't realize when you wake up at 5:30 AM there will be no school. LOL! I should also say... I should probably watch the

Decorating For A Teen Girl

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Written by Mandy

There's a fine line when it comes to decorating for a teen girl... And when I say teen, I mean SEVEN-teen. Which is basically 18 in a teenagers mind. Which is basically an adult. And you know what 17 year olds really dislike? Looking like they live in a room made for a 16 year old.

MM: 038 How to Make a Military Marriage Work

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Marriage is already tough. But a military marriage is even tougher. We've had several readers ask for our tips when Jeff was deployed to Iraq so we thought we would share how we were able to make it work. Even though it was almost a decade ago that Jeff was deployed, it does totally feel like