Journal of a Busy Mom

living one day at a time

Eversave Deal: TOCCs Boots $19

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Christmas is coming!!!!

I have found some great deals the last few years through sites like Eversave. I am soooo tempted to buy a few vouchers for this deal. I know my daughter would love a pair and I could probably think of someone else who would like them. Last year I purchased at least 3 gifts on Eversave or Groupon. Saves money and time!


 TOCCs – Boots$19 for a pair of comfy, faux-fur-lined boots — choose from 3 colors!

5 AM Wake-up

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I let myself sleep in during the summer and now I am struggling to get up at 5 AM. A few months ago, I wrote about why I wanted to wake up at 5AM in a post called Early to Rise. My main reasons are still the same:

  • Quiet time for 2 hours- even when my children were little I hated when they’d get up early and interrupt my quiet time! I would get annoyed. Usually it happened on the days that I DID NOT wake up early so I really should not have annoyed at them but at myself. Today, I still get annoyed when my children or spouse interrupts my quiet time.
  • What I do during my quiet time is precious- my Bible Study, prayer, emails, blogging and just getting ready for my day ahead. Anytime I wake up late, I feel rushed and even like my day is already ruined. I do it to myself all the time. Today I get up at 6:15 even though I first opened my eyes around 5:30. Now, an hour behind schedule I feel annoyed at myself.
  • Most of all its time for ME-no one asking for things, needing me etc. Really it doesn’t matter if this time happened during the day or evening or night, but realistically for me it won’t so I have to carve it out.
  • Oddly enough, once I get into my routine, I really don’t have any trouble waking up, I just need to do it.

September Reading List 2013

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I am excited to report that I actually did the reading I set out to do this summer! I posted my summer reading list here AND I even started another book. So this month, and possibly even into October since I had a late start, I am going to read the following books:

A Bend in the Road by Nicholas Sparks

Captured By Grace: No One is Beyond the Reach of a Loving God by David Jeremiah

Who You Are When No One’s Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise by Bill Hybels

This last one is the one I started reading at the end of August, so I am hoping that I can get all three done. I should be reading a book about homeschooling or something educational, but right now I am kind of burnt out on homeschool books….

Maybe next month.

Ligia