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Follow Mrs. AOK Mrs. AOK, A Work in Progress Twitter Pinterest Google+ Facebook Follow Lisa The Squishable Baby Twitter Pinterest Google+ Facebook Instagram Follow Tiffany MrsTeeLoveLifeLaughter Twitter Pinterest Google+ Facebook Instagram Our Lovely Co-host Meet Allison of The Schumm Explosion Follow her on Twitter Pinterest FacebookGoogle Plus A Giveaway Build your child's imagination with Bookworm Bundle. Bookworm Bundle is a new subscription service that delivers high quality children's books and accompanying crafts straight to your door, every single month for children ages 2-5. It's wonderful. The kit is complete so there is no need to purchase additional accessories. Enter below to win a 6-month subscription valued at $162. US Only. a Rafflecopter giveaway Here are the guidelines of the hop: 1) Follow all your co-hosts. Leave a comment for us on the post and we will know you are a new follower and we will follow back. 2) If you want our button, feel free to grab it from up top! Just remember, more buttons going up means more exposure for all of us! 3) Have you heard how dynamic Pinterest is for blog traffic? Try to pin posts you like! You can even start by pinning the link up before and after yours! THE CO-HOSTS PIN OUR FAVORITES HERE. 4) TWEET about the Blog Hop: Tweet The hosts select bloggers to be featured in the Mommy Monday Blog Hop each week. Next week it could be you! Drum roll please! Copycat Starbucks Lemon Loaf Recipe My Cleaning ad Organization Plan for 2014 /p> Healthy Life Linky Party Definitely very well deserved. If you have been featured on the Mommy Monday Blog Hop, please grab a button and display it proudly! Are you interested in hosting the growing Mommy Monday Blog Hop in 2014? If so, please email Mrs. Tiffany here: Mrstee {at} mrsteelovelifelaughter {dot} com Without further ado...

Do you need a companion in your decluttering journey? I certainly do. I hope the before and after pictures of my decluttering projects encourages you.

Happy Monday y'all! Hope that you had a wonderful weekend! I am so happy to be a part of the Pixie Noel Blog Tour today! Since I a...

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A Halloween Poetry Teatime Picnic! Doesn't it just sound lovely! I admit at first it seemed like it might be a bit overwhelming, but I decided to make it as simple as possible. We already had the Halloween costumes, the poetry books, an old quilt, and some apple cider. The only prepping I had to do was opening a package of Pillsbury Halloween cookies. Seriously, I'm all for homemade and from scratch, but some days...or most days...you've got to make things easier on yourself so you can provide these fun memories for your children. So, you have my permission to break open those prepackaged cookies and enjoy some poetry with your kids!

Magic Moments Monday celebrates the magic in family – moments you have share with your children, living and learning, ones that you want to cherish forever. Linkup ending December 2013. On the first Monday of each month I will be publishing a new Magic Moments Monday post – and you are invited to participate in... {read more}

The other day, I attended Parents Evening for a cohort of my students. After nearly ten years and about seventy similar events, I realised that this was my last ever set of parental meetings. It wa…

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A guide of what to do in Portland, Oregon - this Pacific Northwest city is filled with culture, nature, and excellent food. This Portland, Oregon guide shares the best things to do and see!

5 ridiculously Simple Blog Basics that every blogger needs to implement NOW! You will be kicking yourself for not doing this earlier.

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and The Coca-Cola Company. All opinions are mine alone. #LayerOnLove #CollectiveBiasWhat I love about Coca-Cola® (besides the great taste) is that they are supporting the non-profit organization One Warm Coat® this holiday season. It is their mission to pair together with One Warm Coat to donate half a million... >> View Post

When I took a picture book writing class two years ago through my local community education program, I had no idea that I would be in the company of talented illustrators. Flash forward two years later, and three of us now have debut picture book out (or coming out). Jannie Ho has over illustrated over...

Get insights from both a professional coach and a mom on how to keep girls in sports in this wonderful new book that covers all the major issues that coaches and parents will confront in sports as diverse as ballet and soccer.

Hey everyone! I missed a couple months of TBB Asks, but I’m back this first Monday of December to share the Holiday Edition! I love everything with the holidays, so this was a fun Q&A post to write. Cheers to the holidays and I hope y’all are sneaking in moments of peace, reflection and joy... >> View Post

As a busy family, it's hard to find healthy eating tips for families that are always on the go. Trust me, I've looked. This is why I decided to go ahead and create my own

In a world of "Pinterest perfection," let's celebrate the beauty of the imperfect realities of life and motherhood, even when they don't seem share-worthy.

We’re sharing a roundup of 100+ mom blog post ideas for almost every mom blog and parenting niche. Grab these ideas for your blog!

I used to link up with Becky at Choose Happy for her Currently link up every month, but she hasn’t been doing it. SO, I thought I’d still do it on my own. 🙂 It’s just a great way to update you all on what I’ve been up to besides the usual DIY/outfit posts! Currently…My BirthdayLast Wednesday was... >> View Post

How to help your child apply to art school and 529 college investment plans.

Make learning to tell time fun by creating a hands-on math manipulative clock out of a CD or DVD. Great or common core math games.

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I don't know about you but getting my kids back to our normal routine after taking a break for more than a couple of days is not an easy task. I have been struggling for a week now. During our winter break, they were staying up about 2 hours later than usual and getting them to sleep on time this past week has been a fail. I always say I am going to keep them on schedule during our breaks, but then things happen and we end up having late night game sessions or guests over that get us off routine. So last night I started to think that I was fretting over something that I could easily remedy by allowing our family to ease back into our routines instead of expecting it to happen overnight. Instead of fighting with them, I could move their bedtimes back 30 minutes each night until we get back on track. That would also fix our morning routine as well. So why didn't I think of this last week? Oh I remember... it is that perfectionist rearing her thoughts again. I just wanted to get back to work, but I wasn't thinking of the kids. I wanted my routine back, yet it was not happening. I was just causing frustration. I woke up this morning knowing what I needed to do and the kids are going to be glad that mom finally thought this through. Even after 19 years of homeschooling, I am learning! We will be easing back into our normal routine and if all goes well, we will be back on track by this weekend. WIN! No more fussing and mom will not lose her temper. Today they will be waking up a little later than normal but I think that will help them function better. I want to them to be able to do school well, and I believe sleep helps that happen. I will be apologizing for allowing them to get off routine then expecting them to hop back on immediately. It wasn't their fault that I let them stay up late for over 2 weeks. I will also apologize for getting so frustrated and I will tell them we will work together as a team to get back on track. Another big mistake I made during our return to the school schedule was expecting them to jump right back at the books and be happy about it. They are kids and they love to play and have fun, and as fun as I try to make school, it doesn't compete with video games, toys and television. They needed to be transitioned back gradually, but again I wanted my routine NOW, so we have been struggling with school. I am going to correct this today too. We are going to do some hands on activities for science and history and play a couple of learning games for spelling and math. I know this will be fun for them and will assist us in getting back to our norm without us feeling irritated. So I have made myself I checklist that I can follow after we have had a long break and I would like to share it with you. I will learn from my mistakes and I will be following my checklist from now on! Do you have some ideas in helping homeschooling families to ease back into normal routines after a long break? I would love to hear from you!

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Having a Halloween party or you just want to treat the kids? Serve these Halloween drinks for kids. Fun, spooky, creamy and perfect for Halloween.

This week's Wednesday Hit List post will probably come as a total shocker to everyone! But I am pretty excited to share with you all my 5 most favorite beauty YouTubers. If you don't know me and even if you do, you might be will be surprised to know that I have a huge obsession with beauty YouTube videos/channels. It all started one day when I was at work and I randomly noticed how cheap E.L.F. products are. I decided to Google 'best E.L.F. products' and the first thing that popped up was a Kathleen Lights video... and down the rabbit hole I went. The next thing I knew I was 10 videos deep and couldn't stop. Six months later and not much as changed. The reason why this is so shocking to most people (and to myself as well) is because I rarely wear makeup. Besides mascara (that I wear on days I work), I put on makeup about once a month. It's not that I don't need to, because trust me I do, it's just that I don't make it a priority each day and I don't like putting product on my skin ( I have really sensitive and just overall not good skin). I always feel like putting on make-up is going to make my skin even worse and taking it off every night is too much of a process for me. So it is really absurd and totally ironic that I know more about make-up than 90% of the population, but I rarely ever wear it. Now that you have that little background, let's get to my list. I am counting down from 5 to 1. 5. Tati: Oh my Tati. I have grown to love this woman. Her channel is all about the products. If there is a new product out and you want to know about it, go to Tati. She reviews more products than I ever knew existed, both high-end and drugstore. She does a lot of first impressions where she tries something for the first time, tests it throughout the day, then checks back in at night to give the full review. She also does a fair amount of disappointing products reviews, which many other YouTubers try to stay away from, but I love. In general, her channel is just chalked full of so much information it's incredible. I love her because she is honest, super hardworking (she uploads a new video every weekday), and classy (but not stuck-up)! 4. Laura Lee: To be honest I wasn't so sure about Laura at first. It took me a while to really get what she was all about. Some people seem to take issue with her voice, but I adore her accent and have no issue with the tone and pitch of her voice. What I had a hard time with, at first, was her humor. In the beginning, I thought she was just trying too hard to be weird and different and her goofiness seemed forced and unnatural. But the more I watched her, the more I started to see that she was honestly just being herself. I think it helped when I started following her on SnapChat and I was able to see her in her natural environment. It's funny now because I enjoy her jokes and humor; she can get a laugh out of me! Laura does your typical tutorials, hauls, first impressions, etc., but she also does some really fun and unique videos as well. I love when she tests out hacks and she has some great dupes videos. And, of course, she is just gorgeous! 3. Manny MUA: Manny! I had a hard time deciding between my 2 and 3! I adore Manny, like please be my best friend for life, type of adore. He is soo funny and definitely not bad to look at, a.k.a. ridiculously handsome! I love his channel because I just love him. He is so personable and every time you watch him, it feels like you are just hanging out, having casual conversations with him. It doesn't even matter what his video is about, I just want to watch it because I love his presence. He always does a little blooper reel at the end of his videos and I laugh every time. Even if you don't care a bit about make-up, go watch his videos, it will make you a happier person. Speaking of, I am going to go do that right now! 2. Kathleen Lights: These last three are really all tied for number 1. Like I said earlier Kathleen was the one who started it all for me. I'm not sure I would have fell so hard down that rabbit hole had it not been for Kathleen. From the moment I watched that first video, I just loved her. She is a woman crush for sure; funny, sweet, and gorgeous. But to be honest my favorite part about her is her Cuban accent. I could listen to her talk all day. I never knew how much I loved Cuban accents before I found her. And the way she describes her family and growing up Cuban in Miami makes her even more likable. If you like more soft, subtle looks, Kathleen is the best one to follow. Although she does do more bold looks sometimes, she nails the natural, but flawless look. And she is the only one that doesn't wear false eyelashes regularly. She does tutorials, first impressions, hauls, etc., but she also does more personal videos as well, which I totally love. She doesn't oversell herself on other social medias. She keeps it to a minimum and really seems to balance her life well. 1. Nikkie Tutorials: I would be surprised if you didn't know about Miss Nikkie. If you don't she is most famous for her Power of Makeup video. It went viral and now has over 30 million views. Nikkie is funny, genuine, and ridiculously talented. She is always coming up with unique content and never disappoints when a new video comes out. I die for her her SnapChat filter series, in which she has created the panda, strawberry, and lion. She also kills celebrity inspired tutorials: Kendall, Kylie, Rihanna, Beyonce, etc. She does a monthly favorites video and has some fun collabs with other YouTubers. I am always thoroughly impressed at any challenge video she has ever done: full face highlight, full face liquid lipstick, no mirror makeup challenge, you would never know that it was a challenge. You can tell she is serious about makeup and her job, but is also so humble. And, of course, I just love her accent (she is from the Netherlands). YouTube is flooded with beauty channels and the information out there can be very overwhelming, so I hope this was helpful in giving some direction! What are your favorite YouTube channels, beauty or otherwise? Again, please let me know if you are interested in this becoming a link-up or even better, co-hosting! It would be open for old and new posts alike; the only requirement is that the post contains a list like a ranking or favorites.

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Growing up I loved reading and now I want to instill that love in my children. Heres my tips on how to foster a love for reading in your kids with reading eggs.

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Keep Your PreTeens and Teens Healthy is written in partnership with Rainbow Light® The Fall is here and the weather is starting to get colder, we’ll be having less daylight and be indoors a lot more. My preteen will be busy this fall preparing for testing for his black belt. I want to keep him healthy... >> View Post

Today I’m sharing a collaborative article, which shares 5 Romantic Destinations to Renew Your Vows. Renewing your wedding vows is a great way to reconnect with your significant other and let them know that you would do it all over again. Building a relationship requires hard work and dedication and every couple should celebrate the... >> View Post

My Mother's Day is coming to a close and I've really enjoyed my day. This is my first official Mother's Day with my daughter being right by my side instead of carrying her around during

I can't believe that another year has come to an end! I was able to take a look back at all of the accomplishments I have made with my little slice of the interweb here and must say that I am pretty happy with them. When I started blogging in 2013 with my first blog,

I know that I can’t be the only person who watched The Holiday and thought to myself: I want to go there. And as I often do, I found a way to turn this silly

Last week I spent some time discussing the pros and cons of school-at-home and unit studies. Today I will be tackling a method that truly is the backbone of my beliefs about how children learn best…

I am NOT Patient Enough to Homeschool-Now What? It seems like the ultimate homeschool momma virtue, but it can be learned alongside teaching your child.

My daughters have launched their own clothing company, upcycling vintage and modern pieces, and dying them using a Japanese shibori technique. Indigo Clothing Co. Products: + 100% natural indigo dye + a modern take on Japanese shibori dyeing techniques + upcycled vintage & modern pieces + environmentally and socially conscious They started the company at...

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Today I am partnering with Harry & David to introduce you to the new Harry & David Gourmet collection. Does anyone else remember their family getting Harry & David gift baskets around the holiday season?

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Is everyone ready for Christmas? The kids have their last day of school today (and it is a half day!) and then they are off for TWO whole weeks! Every year I have them make Magic Reindeer Food and this year I wanted to make a special printable for it. Since I had a million... >> View Post

Do you feel overwhelmed? Overwhelmed. It's a word I often hear in the mom circles. We all seem to have more on our plates than we feel like we can handle. Overwhelm means to bury

Looking for a fun and simple Back to School craft idea to get the kids excited for the new school year? Grab the ads and check out this simple craft!