Just a Day in the Life of a Mom with Twins

While I am home sick in bed...I thought I should be productive in some type of way. So here are a number of different household cleaners made with essential oils. I thought this would be fun for my DIYers and fellow essential oil fans. Since everything causes cancer now-a-days I'm trying to get far away from all the chemicals that I can. So... let's get to it! Kitchen Cleaners Lemon Disposal Cleaner :  1/4 cup baking soda 1/4 cup lemon juice (fresh or in a jar) Mix the baking soda and lemon juice together to make a pasty liquid. The liquid will start fizzing - quickly pour down the disposal. Let is sit for at least 5 minutes. Run cold water and turn on the disposal. Run for up to a minute.  Lemon & Clove Nightly Sink Scrub 2 cups baking soda 10 drops lemon essential oil 10 drops clove essential oil dish soap (don't add to jar) container with a shaker top Put the baking soda and essential oils in the jar and mix well with a knife. Sprinkle in a damp sin

Mr. Donald Trump will be the next President of the United States of America I don't usually talk politics or hot topic issues on social media so I debated for a long while on whether or not I would blog about Mr. Donald Trump becoming the President-elect. I finally decided that this is historic and I should be talking about this. So I sat and thought about this subject pretty much all day long trying to figure out how I wanted to articulate my words.  Are we truly surprised it ended like this? I must say, I'm not. What we saw in the American people this year was a want for change. President Obama started that with his campaign in 2009 and it's very much alive and well today. We no longer wanted "politicians" but the "every day man," enter in Mr. Donald Trump and Mr. Bernie Sanders. The second no surprise to me is that we have a Republican in office once again. This is a typical pattern that we often see, one political party will hold the office fou

Let's be honest,  we’d love to make our wedding day a spectacularly affair. We dream of breathtaking styling and fabulous details, but that dream can be a little overwhelming if you don’t know what you’re doing.  Here are fifteen tips from a wedding planner to give you a leg up on the whole wedding planning process. 1. Set a budget and stick to it Be realistic when you sit down with your husband or bride-to-be and discuss what you can afford. Sure, everyone would love to have a royal wedding but is that practical? Start your list with your "must haves." Perhaps flowers are an essential to throwing your garden themed wedding or you'd rather spend a little extra on your guests experience so you rent a photo booth. While there is no right or wrong way to throw a wedding, going beyond budget will hurt you in the end and could cost you much more than you expected.  2. Don't be afraid to show some backbone Keep in mind that this is your wedding and what you says

Can you believe it's the Holiday season already? Someone please tell me where the year goes... I was at the store picking up soup for my husband when I ran into the calendar endcap. I usually pass this section by as the upcoming year is far from my mind. Well not tonight. Tonight I realized it's November and soon we'll be sitting around the dinner table surrounded by friends and family exclaiming what we are thankful for only to realize that Christmas has come and gone, our new years resolutions are once again a thing of the past, and summer is coming to a close. No seriously, where does the year go? I picked up a disney 2017 calendar because yes I'm still a child at heart and love my disney. But more importantly I've been thinking about what 2017 means to me. It means a new hope and adventure. I could sit here and say how 2016 was such a hard year for us (it really was). I could complain about all the stressful endeavors that occurred, the disappointments, the