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How to Organize a Chest Freezer

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May 2, 2018 By Katelyn Fagan 2 Comments

Want to know how to organize a chest freezer so you actually know what's in it and can get to it all easier? Then check out my simple solution for the best way to organize a chest freezer. I don’t know about y’all, but I live in Texas. Hunting, fishing, ranching…we all have deep freezers, and they are fairly well stocked, most of the time. Well, I’ve been on a major kick this year to simplify and get organized in every aspect of my life because doing so saves me time and money! So after I got done figuring out how to clean a deep freezer, I wanted a simple process that would save me time from digging around in a ...

13 Fun Clean/Dirty Dishwasher Magnets

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March 19, 2018 By Elena Gillis Leave a Comment

Looking for some great dishwasher magnets? Here are some of the best clean/dirty dishwasher magnets out there right now! Keep reading to discover the various fun styled clean dirty magnets. I remember as a kid hating it when my mom asked me to wash the dishes. I’d say, “Give me any other chore! I’ll do the laundry, I’ll sweep the kitchen, I’ll vacuum, but PLEASE don’t make me do the dishes again!” Well . . . Mom Life. Those dishes I narrowly avoided in my preteen and teenage years have come back to haunt me. Again. And again. And again. They are there every day. They welcome me in the morning and greet me again at ...

Get Organized at Home with These 5 Unique Organization Tips!

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February 5, 2018 By Jeni Ware 1 Comment

Looking for some tips on how to get organized at home? These five quick organization tips will help you get organized! Let's Get Organized! Welcome to a fresh, new year – the time when everyone makes resolutions, joins the gym, and tries to organize their life! I’ll tell you a little secret about me. As a kid, I was a complete mess. Or should I say I was completely messy? FEMA wouldn’t have wanted to enter my bedroom, and my mother hated it when she had to. Mine was a room where everything lived on the floor. My mom was fed up and thought I could do better, though honestly, she didn't know what to do with ...

Practical Housewarming Gifts for Newlywed Couples & College Students

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January 31, 2018 By Katelyn Fagan 1 Comment

Looking for practical housewarming gifts for a newlywed couple or new homeowners? Here's what I suggest! We went to my niece Samantha's wedding last summer and decided to give her a fun wedding present! We ended up gifting her a fun "Choose Your Own Adventure" Wedding Gift which she said was one of their favorites and made them laugh. But we didn't only want to gift them a funny wedding present. We wanted to be a bit more practical and useful as they worked to set up a home together. As a professional blogger who shares an awful lot of how to clean tutorials on my website, I knew we could put together some practical ...

All Things Spring Printable Bundle! {LIMITED TIME SALE}

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January 24, 2018 By Katelyn Fagan Leave a Comment

Get ready to say goodbye to Winter and Spring into Spring! I am so excited to share the All-Things Spring Bundle with you! It's the very best Valentine's Day, Easter, and Spring printables all in one place! The best part of this bundle is that it is a KILLER deal for you so you can get in on all that awesomeness without breaking your New Years budget! {If you're new to these bundles, trust me when we say- you DO NOT want to miss out on this!} I teamed up with The Dating Divas and 25+ other extremely talented bloggers and designers to put together the ULTIMATE Spring bundle! This bundle is so full of great items, I don't even ...

The Fast (Yet Lazy) Way To Do Laundry Only 3 Days a Week

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January 1, 2018 By Katelyn Fagan 129 Comments

We are a large family of six, and it can be a daunting task to know how to do laundry fast for so many bodies. My husband likes to change his pants (at least) after work for some "chillin' shorts." And my daughters like to play dress up, and my three-year-old likes to "accidentally" get himself soaking wet at the sink, and my baby's poop doesn't like to stay confined to a diaper. Add those to clothing changes because of swimming, ballet class, or colder/warmer weather, along with the sheets, blankets, and towels, and the laundry piles up quite literally day after day. But, I figured out a laundry system for doing ...

11 Habits that Help Keep Your House Clean Even With Kids

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December 4, 2017 By Katelyn Fagan 3 Comments

If you want to know how to keep your house clean, I'm sharing my best tips below, so keep reading! Big thank you to Endust for sponsoring this post. Trying to keep a clean house while raising young children seems like an oxymoron. Am I right? I have not one child, not two, but four children at home with me, all day long, as we homeschool. Their current ages are 2, 4, 7 and 7. They aren't exactly super responsible for their own messes they make every day, especially the two-year-old who is notorious for making a lot of the messes around this home each day. They're kids. I get it. Play and mess-making is a huge part of their ...

What to Pack for a Family Vacation – FREE Packing Checklist Printable

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November 7, 2017 By Katelyn Fagan 3 Comments

Heading out on a family road trip or vacation for the holidays soon? Here's a family vacation packing checklist so you won't forget anything! This post is sponsored by Pampers at Sam's Club but all opinions are my own. We are not native Texans. In fact, we've only lived here for the past three years. Both my family and my husband's family live in other states, which makes traveling for the holidays (and other occasions and vacations) difficult, especially as we have four kids, and I am currently pregnant with baby number five. Thanksgiving is coming up soon, and my large immediate family is getting together at my brother's ...

How to Completely Digitize Photos, Journals, and More So They’re Safe in Disasters

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September 18, 2017 By Katelyn Fagan 8 Comments

I'm a sucker for old photos, old letters, and old journals. I love the tie they are to our past, our personal family history, of eras gone by. It was a very rare occasion that my mother actually opened up our trunk of old family photos and let us rummage around in them, as well as look through our old family film slides. Once or twice my dad got caught up in the nostalgia himself and put together a reel of old film slides, mostly from his early Army and college days. It was hilarious to see pictures of my goofy looking dad (who still had a smidge of hair on top) and amazing to see pictures of my parents once so young (I'm the ...

What Questions to Ask During a Back to School Video Interview with Your Child

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July 20, 2017 By Katelyn Fagan 2 Comments

Awhile ago my husband and I watched this documentary series called Two Brothers and I loved how a father did video interviews over the years and compiled it together into a moving piece of family history! My friend and blogger Jennifer Borget of Cherish365 is great at doing these video interviews with her kids on their birthdays (and is a way better videographer than me!) and it's inspired me to want to do it with my kids too. Plus, all those wonderful and touching video montages and other great things you see on Facebook of parents doing every year with their kids to document their growth over the years, is just so touching and ...

What Foods and Drinks to Pack for a Long Family Road Trip

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July 10, 2017 By Katelyn Fagan Leave a Comment

This post is sponsored by BabbleBoxx.com on behalf of Tree Top. All opinions are my own. At the beginning of June, our family went on a massive family road trip. We drove from Central Texas to Omaha, Nebraska and then from Omaha, Nebraska to Indianapolis, Indiana, and then back home to Central Texas, in a massive 2800 mile road trip with four children over the course of only six days. My oldest niece got married in Omaha and we wanted to go to her wedding. Coincidentally, my husband's grandmother, and our only remaining grandparent between us, would be visiting his parents in Indiana the same week as the wedding. Our ...

Get Ready for Summer with these FREE Summer Printables!

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May 23, 2017 By Katelyn Fagan 4 Comments

The first day of summer is Wednesday, June 21, but the end of school comes even sooner, meaning summer break starts very soon! We have a trip planned in a couple weeks to attend my niece's wedding and then go on to visit my in-laws and then come back home, driving each leg of the trip, for a combined distance of 2700 miles. In a car with four children. In less than a week's time. Yeah, we're probably nuts. It's okay to think that with us. I do know we'll listen to several audio books (Harry Potter among them), have the kids watch movies on our portable DVD players, and pack lots of snacks, drinks, toys, games, and to ...