How To Manage Your Home When You Feel Alone

Do you ever feel like nobody else is helping in your home? You have to cook, clean, do laundry and more, but you literally feel all alone…so alone, that you’re not sure how to proceed.

How do you manage your home when you feel all alone?

I realize that what we’re going to talk about today can be a bit of a sensitive topic, but please know that it is not my intention to offend or hurt anyone. I am going to give a couple of tips today that I hope you will take as an encouragement. My goal is always to encourage you. [Read more…]

How to Make Homemade Popcorn: The Perfect Fast & Easy Snack

If y’all haven’t tried to make homemade popcorn…man, are you missing out! Not only is it delicious, but it’s also super easy to make. It’s basically the fastest snack in the history of the world! Some of you told me that you don’t make homemade popcorn because you don’t know how. Well, all that’s about to change right now! [Read more…]

Getting Enough Healthy Fats: Peanut Butter Fat Bombs

Today, we’re making Fat Bombs. And not just any Fat Bombs – Peanut Butter Fat Bombs.

What exactly are peanut butter fat bombs you might ask? Well, a fat bomb is just an easy and really tasty way to help your body get enough healthy fats. Why should you eat these? Because they’re good for you! Healthy fat is good for your hair, your body, your belly, and your overall mommy attitude, really.  

How many of you sit down and eat a 1/4 cup or so of butter? No? I wish I could just eat pure butter, but it’s just not socially acceptable. Sad.

Anyway, when I’m breastfeeding I struggle to eat enough healthy fats and calories. I know not everyone has this problem, but I do. And I eat these even now, when I’m not breastfeeding.

Since I’ve had braces, it’s sometimes hard for me to find the desire to eat. And if you know me at all – you know how crazy that is! For several days after I go in for a fitting or a tightening, my teeth ache and my mouth is raw, making it hard for me to eat.

But I always like butter, peanut butter, and carbs. Load ‘er up, buttercup!

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Crate System for Weekly Clothing Planning

It’s fun to talk about something you really like. And y’all, I really, really like this crate system for weekly clothing planning.

Some of you might start reading this and think, “That girl’s crazy! Why doesn’t she just put her clothes in a drawer like a normal person?”  I hear you, man. But ever since I implemented a crate system for weekly clothing planning…  I can’t stop talking about it. This system just works for us.

If you’ve already got something in place that makes getting ready every morning a breeze;  then I say work it – you work it, girl. But if you’re struggling, maybe it’s time to make a change. I mean, if at first you don’t succeed, give it up and try something else. [Read more…]

How to Cook Hard-boiled Eggs in a Pressure Cooker

“I love eggs, from my head down to my legs…”

Today, I’m going to share all about how I cook hard-boiled eggs in a pressure cooker. And y’all, these hard-boiled eggs peel perfectly, every time! I haven’t made hard-boiled eggs any other way since learning this method.

If you cook hard-boiled eggs in a pressure cooker, even “fresh from the chicken” eggs peel perfectly. Normally those eggs don’t peel well; all the white comes off and it looks like a train wreck!  But you won’t have that problem when cooking eggs using your pressure cooker! [Read more…]

How We Use Essential Oils: A Day in the Life of an Oily Mama and Wife

I have had lots of request to share all about how I use essential oils in my home on a daily basis. You probably already know I’m a Young Living Oils Distributor with a lovely team of ladies working with me; but it didn’t always look like this, y’all. I started out very slowly.

This has been an 9 month journey for me. When you see all that I’m doing below, understand that this is where I am now. My essential oils daily routine looked a lot different when I first started out. I know it will continue to look different in the future as I grow and learn. I would like to do even better, like by adding in supplements, for example.

What does a day in the life of an oily mama and wife look like in the Myers house?

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Mixer or Bread Machine: Which Should I Buy?

I get asked all the time: Which should I buy, a mixer or a bread machine? The answer might surprise you. I say both.

I know I always said a bread machine is one of the things I would never, EVER buy. Friends (and strangers) would always tell me, “You should get a bread machine!” And I’d reply back, “I’m the bread machine! I do the kneading over here!” I had a great Bosch mixer and a bread machine seemed completely unnecessary. What changed? [Read more…]

Morning Person or Night Owl: Embrace Who You Are

Let me just go ahead and put this out there – in case y’all haven’t noticed, I’m not a night person.

I am, and always have been, a morning person. And you know what? I’m not going to invest my time trying to become a better night person. If I tried as hard as I could; I’d still fail.

Night for me starts at about 7pm. Sometimes Barry will look at me and say, “This isn’t a good time for you, is it?” If I don’t get something done before 7pm, it’s pretty much not going to happen that day. My head practically stops working after dinner.  The lights are on, but nobody’s home.

Now, if you look up morning person in the dictionary, I’m there. That is me up one side and down the other. And no, not just because I love muffins, butter and coffee. 😉 I hear from people all the time,  “I wish I was more like you!” “How do you wake up so early?” “If only I could be a morning person.”

When did we decide that instead of being cool with who we are, we have to be something (someone) we’re not? Why is it not okay to just be who we are? [Read more…]

A Simple Way to Make Birthdays Special

When Annie was first born, Barry and I came up with a really simple idea for how to celebrate our kids’ birthdays: The Birthday Crown! I know I’ve talked about it already on social media, but I thought a formal post about it may be helpful as well.

Barry and I decided that whoever in our family was celebrating a birthday would get to wear a birthday crown and would be our King or Queen for the day.

On their birthday, the king or queen gets to choose what they want to eat, where they want to go, what they would like for us to do to celebrate. Maybe best of all (at least while they’re young), they get to wear the birthday crown. [Read more…]

The Solution to Your Breakfast Woes

I previously shared with you my 10 easy go-to breakfast recipes and today I want to share another helpful breakfast idea. For a while now, our family has been using a method that has really revolutionized life for us. It just might be the solution to your breakfast woes!

You all know I love to cook. More than anything, I love to cook breakfast. Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day. I love me some breakfast, girl!

Butter, syrup, butter, muffins, butter, coffee, butter, butter in coffee. My first thought in the morning is – I’m so glad it’s almost breakfast time!

I’m definitely not one of those people who’s like, “Rats, I just forgot to eat breakfast today!”

Or you guys that wake up and say, “No thanks, I don’t eat breakfast.” I don’t understand you. I mean, we can be friends, but I don’t understand you.

My kids are the same way – they want to know all about what they’re gonna have for breakfast the next day as they climb into bed.

For those of you who are breakfast people (and those of you who wish you were) – I’ve got the solution to your breakfast woes.

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