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Laundry Tips for Busy Moms

These laundry tips for busy moms make my life so much easier! Between housework and chores, drop-offs, pickups, homework, extracurricular activities, and everything else, anything that makes my life easier is welcomed. Since laundry is one of those things that are necessary and can be a lot depending on how your household operates, tips are always helpful, even if you don’t use all of them, all the time.

About a year ago, when my then three-year-old started school, I was introduced to my...

Practicing Grateful Living as a Lifestyle

Practicing grateful living has literally been my lifeline since the start of the pandemic. I started out with living in a state of constant gratitude years before, but for obvious reasons, I’ve needed to pull on it more than I ever have. It has helped me to stay hopeful and focus on the good in my life. The truth is, at this particular point, my mental health is scraping the barrel on most days. More so than at the initial onset of this global crisis.

It’s weird because it seems like a...

Drinking Green Juice for a Month – This Happened

Just a few weeks ago, I shared the green juice recipe I tried for the first time; Today I am sharing the results of drinking green juice for a month. This wasn’t the plan (I didn’t have one) but after I liked it, I decided to keep making it. So every morning, I make the time in our routine to get that green juice ready for my husband and me (uh-huh, I’ve dragged him right along into the mess with me) before we head out. My goal was to get something healthy into my system to see whether I would ...

How to Encourage Kids’ Hobbies

When I was a little girl, my parents allowed me the freedom to pursue my hobbies (which were pretty tame) so long as they didn’t interfere with schoolwork (Nothing really interfered with that. I was an autonomous kid.), but as far as encouraging them, well that’s another story altogether. Like I mentioned, my own hobbies were pretty tame. I really just liked to read, write and play netball. All of which you can imagine wasn’t too time-consuming. But what if I did have time-consuming hobbies? Wo...

5 Great Benefits of Blogging for Business

If you’re new to my blog, you may not know that I have a business writing agency and that I started blogging for business shortly after starting this, my personal and lifestyle blog. You may also not know that I had tried to start an online business plan writing business a few years before I started blogging, but it went nowhere. What was the difference between the two attempts? If you said blogging, you are absolutely correct.

My first rodeo was around 2014. I had a personal Facebook ac...

3 Jamaican Scented Candles to Try

I’ve been very deliberate about trying Jamaican scented candles for the past few months, while I’m enamoured with homemaking. It just makes sense that supporting local brands are at the top of the list for products to try while I go about my mission. Local brands with great products (and customer service), that is. I know we are all into pushing the ‘Buy Jamaican’ tagline; which is great, but I will not spend my hard-earned money if the product is subpar, just to say I’m ‘buying Jamaican’. So o...

Good Money Habits to Teach Kids

Most of us appreciate the importance of having good money habits and discussing money matters with our spouses. Nonetheless, individuals from lower to middle-income homes are often left to figure it out for themselves. This was my experience. I had one parent who was terrible with money and another who budgeted within an inch of their life. Then there was me, the child, left to simply observe and ‘figure’ it out. That won’t be my child(rens)’s experience.

Economic and Lifestyle Consider...

5 FREE Blogging Tools For Beginners

Managing a blog is not an easy thing to do. It takes a lot of creativity, research, constant learning and man-hours to successfully maintain and grow a blog. These last few years of blogging recreationally, I’ve learned a lot; some things intentionally through research and reading, others through experiences. This includes information I had no desire to use at the time. With this redirection, I’ve been able to implement them as I go along and watch the effects of my upgrades and tweaks impact nu...

Stalked at My Gate

I said I wouldn’t share any more doom and gloom stories on my blog, but the past few years and in particular days have been a heavy ordeal for women. Since I have a blog, as a Mother, Daughter, Sister and Wife, it is my responsibility to use it t share this too. The catalyst for anger has been the rape and murder of a young woman, Khanice Jackson on her way to work. On Friday, was hurt and angry, much like I am every time I hear a sort similar in nature. About an hour before reading the news t...

How to Create a Family Budget

A family budget is crucial if you are serious about financial planning and stability for the family. I don’t know about you, but one of the major life lessons of the past year is that the proverbial ‘rainy day’ can actually be a monsoon. For many of us, providing financial stability for our family is a work in progress. It’s a bid to learn, share and put into practice healthy financial habits that will facilitate that stability. One major way to do that is with a family budget. Even though I ha...