They say patience is a virtue – and it’s a virtue that’s running thin about now for many people. The quarantine, social distancing, and COVID-19 are all anyone thinks about these days it seems. And with the focus on social distancing and sheltering at home, we are losing patience with each other, with the government, Read More
Author: Joan Merrell
Joan Merrell is a solo mom to two daughters, a widow, and a security technician at Oregon State Hospital. Oregon native, farm girl and 4H leader, maker of homemade bread and chocolate chip cookies, she balances (more or less) full-time work with caring for a home filled with a teenage daughter, 2 entitled cats, and a hyper German Shepherd. She enjoys gardening and hiking, reading Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti novels, and searches for a few spare minutes to communicate with her grown daughter and son-in-law on her Marco Polo app. Find out more about Joan here.
Being Productive During Isolation
Have we all had enough of the quarantine yet? I know, I’m right there with you. Especially, if you have kids at home. Now my situation is a little different from many moms – I’m at work full-time, and I have to be. I’m not only an “essential worker” (whatever that means these days) … Read More
Living In The Present – NOW: FMF
We can’t help it. We’re worried about the future. But … we need to be living in the present, especially at this time and during this season of our lives. This week’s one-word prompt is: NOW. You can check out all the other great 5-minute posts, or submit one of your own, right here: Five Read More
Crafts To Do While Quarantined
Are you having trouble staying productive during the quarantine? Is it getting harder and harder to find projects to keep yourself (and your kids) occupied and focused? Do you need something to keep you all busy? Here are a few ideas for crafts to do while quarantined. These projects will keep your mind and hands Read More
Stay Productive During Quarantine
I don’t know about you, but this quarantine and social distancing is becoming a drag. What once was a good excuse for being chill and relaxing is becoming an excuse to dump my To Do lists and hang out in PJs all day. And I don’t want to do that! I’m by nature someone who Read More
Adjusting Expectations – FMF
Our one-word prompt for today is: ADJUST. You can find all the wonderful posts submitted today, or add your own, by clicking here: Five Minute Friday Link Up 03/27/2020. We’d love to have you join us! This is an important time to gather together as a community, and share together. The past two weeks have Read More
Delivered Meal Boxes – Dealspotr
I recently wrote a post about what to stock up on for COVID-19 when you are at the grocery store. But then I started thinking – what about folks who can’t get to the grocery store? Maybe their circumstances won’t allow them to make a trip to get what they need. That’s why this post Read More
How To Avoid A Virus
We are in the midst of a pandemic. All you hear on the news is “Corona Virus” and “COVID-19” everywhere you turn. There’s no escaping it. So we watch, spellbound, as the new tally of infections are calculated each evening on the news. And we are left to wonder what to do. The big question Read More
Finding TOMORROW – FMF
This week our one-word prompt is: TOMORROW. You can check out all the other great posts, or submit your own Five Minute Friday creation, right here: Five Minute Friday Link Up 03/20/2020 Now on to the topic at hand. It’s been quite a week; we’ve taken a real wild ride this past week, and it Read More
What To Stock Up On for COVID-19
You cannot escape it. The media’s 24/7 coverage of every detail of it is obsessive. We are in the midst of a pandemic, or so it would seem. Everywhere you go, you see bare shelves. People are buying massive amounts of products, but how do we know what to stock up on for COVID-19? I Read More
Unique and Special – FMF: LESS
Here’s a “unique and special” post for anther Five Minute Friday! Our one-word prompt this week is : LESS. You can check out all the other great posts, and perhaps submit your own post, right here: Five Minute Friday Link Up 03/12/2020 I hope every one had a great week. Mine was pretty good; work Read More
Organizing Clothes for the Week
I tend to write quite a few articles and posts about how to stay organized around the house, and this post will be no exception. I want to share with you a system I’ve found that works great for organizing clothes, specifically clothes I wear to work each week. As a solo mom, working full Read More
A Family Legacy – Five Minute Friday
This week’s one-word prompt is: TABLE. You can read all the other great posts submitted to the link up today, or submit your own 5 minute creation, right here: Five Minute Friday Link Up 03/06/2020 And here we are, once again … setting the timer for 5 minutes … and, GO Today’s prompt is an Read More
Sugar Free February Results
We’re at the finish line! This is the final post about my Sugar Free February, a challenge for myself I started on February 1st. And now that it’s complete, we get to find out my Sugar Free February results! And they are kinda exciting, at least for me. But first, let me tell you a Read More
Artificial Sweeteners – Sugar Free February
I’ve got less than a week to go in my Sugar Free February, and I’m loving the results so far. If you want to bring yourself up to speed with what’s been happening the rest of the month, you can check out these posts: Sugar Free February – It Begins No Sugar February – It Read More