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Google is Taking Over! or How I use Google for Household Management

January 9, 2013 by Jill 1 Comment

The beginning of this year also began what I anticipate will be a super-crazy-stressful-two-month period of my life. I'm studying to take the Texas Bar Exam. This inspired Phil and I to look for a new way to keep on the same page for household management. The answer so far has been using Google. "What are you talking about?" you are probably asking. Well, lets back up a minute. The Texas Bar Exam is evil. It's a three day exam covering every aspect of legal law in Texas. I don't know much … [Read more...]

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#28: Progress-Real Restaurant Mojito Recipe

November 5, 2012 by Jill 2 Comments

Mojitos are my favorite cocktail. I've been on a quest to learn to create the perfect mojito at home. I recently made some progress on that quest. I learned how to make a delicious mojito that is restaurant quality. It's not perfect to my tastes, but it's the best cocktail I've ever made at home. Read on to learn the secrets of my real restaurant mojito recipe. A few days before my birthday, I serendipitously received this email from La Duni, one of our favorite restaurants (so far) in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: household management, life, recipe Tagged With: mojito, thirty by thirty

Chalking it up Again! Chalkboard Pantry

October 19, 2012 by Jill 3 Comments

[pinit] While I had the chalkboard paint open working on Jaye's chalkboard dresser,I decided to whip up a chalkboard pantry as well. I used Frog Tape to tape off the inside of our pantry door. I made sure to smash the tape down really well. Then I just painted on two nice coats of chalkboard paint. It would have been better to use a foam roller, but I just used a brush. You can kind of see brush marks, but it's not too bad. After the chalkboard paint has dried for 7 days, you have to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: home, household management, organization Tagged With: chalkboard, kitchen, pantry, projects

How can a stay at home mom earn money?

October 15, 2012 by Jill 3 Comments

Currently, I'm a stay at home mom. An accidental stay at home mom of sorts because I didn't plan to stay at home full time. But before we moved to Texas, Phil and I knew that we were looking at about a year more of me being unemployed and at home full time. We decided that in that year, I should earn $1200 (enough to cover the property management service for the home we own in Minnesota) How? How can a stay at home mom earn money? Here's how I've been doing it. So far, I've earned … [Read more...]

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Veggies and More Veggies: Whole Living Challenge Week 2

October 8, 2012 by Jill Leave a Comment

Well, I survived the first week of the Whole Living Challenge. Now I'm starting week 2 of the Whole Living Challenge. How's it going? I still don't love vegetables. But I did eat a lot of them last week. Until Friday, when we left town for a Settlers Weekend at the beach. Then I cheated all weekend long and ate whatever I wanted to. And it was awesome. But now we're back home, and I'm trying to stick to week 2. This week I can add seafood tofu, beans and lentils. I'm very excited about this. It … [Read more...]

Filed Under: cooking, household management, life, recipe, thirty by 30 Tagged With: whole living challenge

Why Can’t I Love Vegetables?!?

October 2, 2012 by Jill 6 Comments

[pinit] The 30th item (clearly I'm going out of order in completion) on my Thirty by 30 list is to eliminate processed food and learn to eat vegetables. This week, I took a tangible step towards that goal, hopefully. I started the Whole Living Challenge. The challenge is structured as a cleanse and detox, which is good, but isn't exactly my main goal. My goal is to learn to enjoy fruits and vegetables. I don't right now. When I'm hungry, I don't think, "A banana sounds good." I don't reach for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: cooking, life, recipe, thirty by 30 Tagged With: fruit, vegetables, whole living challenge

Pantry Project

September 14, 2012 by Jill 5 Comments

Ever since we moved in our pantry (well, really our whole kitchen) has been an organizational disaster. The kitchen was scheduled for August as the "one room per month" decluttering rule, but that didn't happen for various reasons. However, I recently (finally) tackled the pantry at least. When we unpacked, we just dumped everything into the shelves all willy-nilly, helter-skelter, mishmash, you get the point. It looked bad. And it was impossible to find things. See what I mean? You didn't … [Read more...]

Filed Under: before and after, organization Tagged With: decluttering, kitchen, lorrie house, projects

The Care and Keeping of a Jayebug

September 7, 2012 by Jill Leave a Comment

I wrote out this document for my parents before we left for our anniversary trip. I thought it would be fun to document it here. This is the information one would need about Jaye to watch her for a weekend. A Typical Daily Schedule: 7:30am- Jaye wakes up. Change her diaper, get her dressed. 7:45am- Jaye eats breakfast. She loves scrambled eggs; I usually cook two, and she eats most of them. Offer her a sippy cup of water, too. Otherwise, she likes sliced cheese, fruit, etc. 8:00am- … [Read more...]

Filed Under: household management, jaye, life Tagged With: day in the life, schedule