Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars Considering about one out of every 5 things I bake is a variation of chocolate chip cookies, it’s safe to say it’s one of my favorite treats. But with kids it’s hard to bake anything that requires dropping cookies onto multiple pans, baking in batches and ensuring nothing gets burned, transferring cookies to cool, etc. This…
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Simple Girl’s Room Updates It’s been so fun re-doing our daughter’s room with some simple girl’s room updates… when we moved into the house, her room was hot pink – a bubble gum explosion (see below)! She of course loved the color but we worked hard to talk her down to something more neutral. A simple a pretty, dusty, muted…
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Top Pot Blueberry Cake Donuts While I’m not a huge fan of random seemingly made-up holidays, I can get on board with #nationaldonutday … A couple years ago a good friend sent me the Top Pot cookbook for my birthday. What a gift! It makes you salivate just turning the pages. Trust me. These Top Pot Blueberry Cake Donuts were…
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Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Caramels A couple years ago we got a big container of dark chocolate sea salt caramels for Christmas (these are the ones we got – they’re amazing if you’d rather not make any and grab some online). Once they were gone, we kept craving them. And once we realized how easy these were to make, it…
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Weekly Printable – Leave Others Happier This week’s weekly printable is a quote from Mother Teresa included in all our 2017 Plum Street Planners. It’s one of my favorite quotes. “Let no know ever come to you without leaving happier.” I recently read about a woman who has been feeling down lately and treated poorly by those around her. Many…
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Summer Planning Printable I remember the care-free summers before we had kids – we’d schedule a trip or two, take some early days off work, hike, explore, eat where we’d like, see some fun movies, and go out with friends. Summers with kids are just a tad (completely) different. Planning in lessons and camps and house projects and family trips and…
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Weekly planning is a topic I’m passionate about because 1) it helps me immensely in all areas of my life when I do it, and do it well, and 2) if I don’t do it, I find things spiraling out of control and extremely hectic during the week. These simple weekly planning tips help me every day. I run a…
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This week I finally read this book – The Magnolia Story – by Chip and Joanna Gaines. I just bought it as my next read because of what I’ve heard – that these two were not an overnight success. That they’ve worked and failed and worked again and failed over and over for years before HGTV came to them. I love…
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One of our favorite rooms in our house is the master bedroom. It has great light, great windows, a good shape, really nice floors, pretty crown molding, and a calming paint color. The previous owners had a different style than we do, so we were excited to get in this room and give it a pretty and simple master bedroom…
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