Pillows can be a tricky thing to navigate. I’m not talking about throw pillows–which I probably need an intervention with. I’m talking about the sleeping-on-at-night ones, the ones you hide behind 400 throw pillows on your bed because they are always deflated and lumpy and terribly wrinkled. I’ve tried many different kinds of pillows–everything from…
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25 Ways to Make Your Child’s Birthday Special
So today is my eldest-born’s sixth birthday. It got me thinking about my own birthdays as a child, and how my mom always tried really hard to make them special. Now my mother dearest has eleven children. Eleven!! It still boggles my mind. She had many routines to survive parenting her eleven. We had a…
Spread Love, Ditch Negativity
The internet has been kind of hurtful lately. In the space of the last week or two, I have been the victim of many different rude and negative comments. I’ve been blogging for over four years, but it never really gets any easier for me to receive negative comments. I take them way too personally,…
Confessions of a Craft Blogger
I am a craft blogger. This must mean that my house is super cute and perfectly organized and clean all the time. This must mean my kids are constantly sitting down with my undivided attention to do unique and creative crafts with me. This must mean that everywhere I go I carry my SLR camera…
Welcome to Honeybear House
I mentioned before I had some exciting news…I’m pregnant!!! Haha—just kidding. That is the first thing everyone thinks of when people say they have news, right?? Well here’s the real news, accompanied by a long Story of My Life. Congrats if you read it all! About seven months ago, my husband started a new job….
12 Ways to Beat the Winter Blues
January is my arch-nemesis. With the exception of the four years I lived in sunny Arizona, the other 25 years of my life I have gotten seasonal depression in January (on the flipside, I got seasonal depression in September in Arizona.) It’s never been so bad that I needed medication or therapy. And this post…
I Ran a Half Marathon!
So I did it…I ran a half marathon. And just four months ago I couldn’t even run a mile. And I did 13.1. I wish I felt a little more impressed with myself, but I guess I’m just that person who can never be satisfied. But it’s what keeps me going, keeps me motivated to…
Running Basics: What I Do When I Run
If you’ve been following along on Facebook, you know that I hit a new milestone yesterday…10 miles! I ran 10 miles yesterday in 1 hr 50 minutes. That’s not super fast, but it averages about 11 min pace. I definitely got slower as the miles went by. But just thinking about two months ago, I…
Back to School with BIC®
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of BIC® for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. One of my fondest memories of my grade school years were notes. Passing notes was a huge thing back then. (I guess it could still be huge but I would have no idea.) But more than…
20 Healthy Breakfast and Lunch Ideas
5 Tips for Falling Asleep
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of ZzzQuil for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. I sometimes suffer from insomnia. Not all the time, but I go through phases where I just toss and turn for hours before falling asleep. And if my kids wake me up in the middle of…
How I {don’t} Do it All
I love being a blogger. I really do. I have ups and downs, times when I’m super burned out and other times when I’m really gung-ho about blogging and all my projects. I have times when you can’t drag me away from my computer and other times when I have to force myself to get…
