• 3 Tips To Renovate Your Backyard!

    Backyard furniture

    To renovate your backyard entails tailoring your home’s backyard to meet your ideal vision may seem like a difficult mountain to climb. But if you mix persistence with your own personality and ideas into your backyard landscape design, you’ll be able to create a beautiful, peaceful, accommodating place for family members and friends to experience fun days while soaking up the sun in your gorgeous garden paradise. Whether you’re looking to design a new look for your backyard or need help repairing the irrigation systems & lawn sprinklers in Kansas City (or your local area), there’s always something you can improve. The beauty is that landscape redesigns and renovations will be a lot less…

  • Happy Birthday Zac!

    Family BBQ for our son Zachary’s 29th birthday. I love hanging out with my family. Theres no better way to spend a day!!! I made some really good food choices (and a couple really BAD one’s! Wednesday isn’t going to be pretty!) I DID have skinless grilled chicken. YUM. I did have fresh fruit salad (courtesy of my wonderful daughter Selena!). Then I had potato salad BUT only 1/2 cup. Instead of potato chips I had Quakes rice cake cheddar cheese chips(70 calories for 9 cakes! But if you eat almost a whole bag I think that 70 calorie kudo’s goes out the window. BUT I didn’t have any dip)…

  • Match Your Home Décor To Your Living Situation!

    Beach house

    A Marriage Of AestheticA big part of a happy life is revolved around the home décor which characterizes your house. You don’t want something loud and angled in a space that’s smooth, soft, and visually “quiet”. Rather, you want paintings, furniture, and color schemes which are will complement such surroundings. There are a number of reasons for this beyond what the neighbors think. Your own psychological equilibrium will be reflected in the living situation you’ve built around you. A disorganized, hectic mind will be reflected by a disorganized, hectic house. Meanwhile an ordered, coherent, forward-thinking mind will be organized inside and out. Paintings Of PicturesOne of the best ways to…

  • Soft Neck Support Travel Pillow!! The BEST There Is!!

    Summer is coming to an end. I don’t want to sound too excited here but ….. there are only 19 days of summer left. We’ve been doing some long car trips; mostly day trips and outings that are designed to wear the kid out. So, trips to the San Diego Zoo and San Diego Safari Park; where if I’ve done my job correctly 6-year-old Alice sleeps all the way home! Now; after seeing her little neck all scrunched up and at such weird angles as she sleeps in her car-seat I’ve been on the hunt for a travel pillow. The trouble with most of them; ie ALL of them; actually…

  • What can you do with $1,000 a month for one year? GIVEAWAY!!

    Older couple

    What can you do with $1,000 a month for one year? $250 in AMEX® gift cards? Free Ensure® and more? Enter the Ensure Can Do Giveaway for a chance to find out! For ages 50+ in the U.S. Let’s Ask Google To Swing Around Here Again Updating my blog’s SEO has officially entered the same category as cleaning behind the refrigerator. Necessary. Noble. Slightly horrifying. 🧹✨ Because nothing says “fun afternoon” like opening a five year old post and discovering half the images have vanished, three links lead to businesses that now exist only in memory, and somewhere deep in the code lives a font choice I definitely made during…