Sweet Purple Tulips

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Archives for February 2018

Absolutely Amazing Chicken Enchiladas

Whenever we eat at a Mexican restaurant, 95% of the time I will order chicken enchiladas.  I do branch out and try new things occasionally, but I know chicken enchiladas are always good.  Through the years, I have tried many enchilada recipes at home and they were good.  Then I came across the recipe for Homemade Red Enchilada Sauce from Gimme Some Oven and all we could say was WOW!  Of course, I made some modifications to it to make it my own, and it is HANDS DOWN the most amazing red enchilada sauce that you will ever taste.  I will NEVER buy another can of red enchilada sauce again because this sauce is so easy and so amazing. [Read more…]

7 Tasks for a Clean Home: February

Well, we are only 2 weeks into February, so I am doing a little better about posting this month’s cleaning challenge. 🙂  This post was supposed to go out last week, and well….. life happened.  As a mom, life is just busy trying to juggle everything-taking care of kids, cooking, cleaning, laundry, running kids to activities, church or community responsibilities, work, etc.  The list goes on and on and on, and sometimes you just need a nap. 🙂

Of course, this is why I started this series in the first place.  All these things take over our to-do list, and areas of our home get forgotten. We might notice these things and say, “I really need to do that sometime”. Add some guilt in there that things are not getting done, and we really start to feel overwhelmed.  So take a deep breath and print out this monthly list (and January’s too if you want).  Then pick ONE item that you can take care of this week and make time to get it done.  Maybe it is just me, but there is a feeling of satisfaction that comes from taking care of something you have been procrastinating.  My whole goal of this series is to help you feel good about accomplishing tasks around your home and making it a little cleaner each week.  Let’s get started with February! [Read more…]

Winter 2018 Stitch Fix Round-up

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As winter winds down, I thought it would be great to do a round-up of my favorite winter items from Stitch Fix.  New to Stitch Fix? It is a personal styling service.  You create a profile with your measurements and then your stylist picks out 5 items to send you.  You can have a box sent automatically every 1-3 months or you can manually choose when you want to receive one.  Keep what you want and return what you don’t with free shipping both ways. To learn more about how it works, check out my post Finding Style with Stitch Fix.   [Read more…]

Blueberry Muffins

Years ago, I saw this pin on Pinterest for copycat Costco Muffins.  We decided to try the recipe for blueberry muffins but had to make some modifications.  I usually only have yellow cake mixes on hand, so we used that instead of a white cake mix.  A few years ago, cake mix companies shrunk the size of cake mixes from 18 oz. down to 15 oz.  To make up the difference, we increased the flour.  Then we added a delicious streusel to the top and our favorite easy blueberry muffins were born. [Read more…]

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