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Lifestyle

Our New Home: Construction Update

Laura

It’s been a minute! We have had a busy few weeks. My husband is just starting the last bit of paternity leave he has from our fourth child and we are busy preparing for vacation and homeschool. To top it all off we have appointments every day this week ranging from the dentist to the vet and our youngest just came down with hand, foot and mouth. Overwhelmed is an understatement. But the show must go on or so they say.

After years of planning, in December(?) of last year, we were finally able to start construction on our new home! It has been an adventure that neither myself nor my husband ever really imagined we would be having, yet here we are. Full of ups and downs, stupid questions and weird requests, we have tried to take every step gratefully (and gracefully!) and we can finally see it all start coming together.

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Homeschool

Homeschool Record Keeping Part One: Binders

Laura

It’s beginning to look a lot like…back to school?!

Well, maybe for the rest of the country but we don’t actually start school in our house until mid September (after we get back from the beach). With two ADHD school aged kids gearing up and starting homeschool just to turn around and go on vacation for two weeks just sets us up for failure when we get home. It’s much less headache for everyone if we just push it back until our heads are in the game…or…books. Whatever.

However, that doesn’t mean our household is totally school free right now. Yes, I’ve been hitting the back to school sales, planning unit studies and creating worksheets. But I’ve also been trying very hard to get our record keeping organized. It was so much easier with one school aged kid to just download some stuff to the computer, send it to a specific folder and forget about it until next year. This year, my anxiety is getting the best of me and I would just feel so much better if I had a better system since I’ll be in charge of TWO school aged kids this time around.

Enter: the binder.

I love binders. I love the way the crisp, clean pages look and smell and feel. I love hole punching and lining up pages. It makes me feel like I’m doing something productive. For this project, binders hit all my marks. Now onto the details.

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Lifestyle

August Monthly Meal Plan

Laura

August is here and I can feel fall in the air! We have a few rollovers from last month that I didn’t quite get around to, but they’re just too good to just ditch for a whole new plan! We’ve been getting take out (and gas station food😬) way more than I like this past month so here’s to a fresh start! I keep everything organized in my monthly meal plan printable (50% off until 8/22/26) and I enter it all on my Cozyla calendar.

Here’s what we’re having at our house this month!

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