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Quick and Easy BBQ Joes
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Quick and Easy BBQ Joes

If you’re looking for a hearty meal that’s as quick as it is yummy, you HAVE to try this unique version of the sloppy joe. With only 4 ingredients, these BBQ Joes are packed with flavor without all the fuss, and each sandwich costs less than $1/serving!

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15 Minute Macaroni and Cheese
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15 Minute Macaroni and Cheese

Stovetop mac and cheese is one of the easiest ways to recreate your favorite childhood comfort food. This recipe comes together in 15 minutes and uses just 4 ingredients, but tastes so much better than the boxed version. Your kids will love it!

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Flaky Biscuit Pizzas
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Flaky Biscuit Pizzas

These Flaky Biscuit Pizzas come together in minutes and make a quick and easy weeknight meal. Leave them plain, or customize with your favorite toppings…..dinner does not get any easier than this!

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Crispy Popcorn Chicken
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Crispy Popcorn Chicken

These easy popcorn chicken bites come together in less than 30 minutes, and make a fantastic quick dinner or hearty snack. The outside coating crisps up perfectly in the oven and eliminates the need for a deep fryer!

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Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

These Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies are super easy to make and guaranteed to become your go-go snack for school lunches or late night cravings. They’re so addicting you won’t be able to stop at just one!

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Make Your Own Bacon Bits
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Make Your Own Bacon Bits

Make your own bacon bits that taste MUCH better than those flavorless packages from the store. They only take 15 minutes to make, and store wonderfully in the freezer. Great as toppings for pizza, baked potatoes, and more!

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Cookies and Cream Ice Cream Cake
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Cookies and Cream Ice Cream Cake

Don’t buy expensive ice cream cakes when you can make ones that taste even BETTER at home. This Cookies and Cream Cake has gooey vanilla frosting on the inside, crunchy chocolate cake on the inside, and just the right amount of ice cream sandwiched between the two!

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Slow-Cooker Pulled Pork Sandwiches
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Slow-Cooker Pulled Pork Sandwiches

Put your slow-cooker to work with these oh-so-yummy pulled pork sandwiches. They’re soft and tender, have a hint of spicy sweetness, and use one secret ingredient that makes this meaty recipe a dinner-time favorite!

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Make Your Own Fruit Snacks
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Make Your Own Fruit Snacks

Make fruit snacks that are actually good for you {and your kids!} with this easy homemade recipe. Uses all-natural ingredients, is bursting with flavor, and makes the perfect afternoon snack without the guilt!

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FREE Summer BBQ Checklist
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FREE Summer BBQ Checklist

Download this free summer BBQ checklist and ALWAYS remember what to bring for your next picnic. Includes an extra space for notes and is great for planning ahead!

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The Best Strawberry Smoothie Recipe
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The Best Strawberry Smoothie Recipe

Your smoothie search is finally over! This unique recipe uses Greek yogurt and frozen orange juice to make it the best strawberry smoothie recipe EVER. Perfect as a Summer treat on a hot day!

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Lemon Blueberry Cheesecake Bars
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Lemon Blueberry Cheesecake Bars

If you need a Spring pick-me-up, you MUST try these heavenly lemon blueberry cheesecake bars. The filling is to-die for, and the streusel topping leaves a fabulous crunch in your mouth!

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Homemade Chocolate Peanut Butter Eggs
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Homemade Chocolate Peanut Butter Eggs

These homemade chocolate peanut butter eggs are in some serious competition with Reese`s. The peanut butter filling melts in your mouth and makes for a delectable Easter treat!

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Homemade Condensed Cream of Chicken Soup
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Homemade Condensed Cream of Chicken Soup

Although canned soup is super convenient, nothing tastes as good as homemade! Save your chicken broth and whip up a batch on the weekend. It`s freezer friendly and incredibly frugal!

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Valentine Sugar Cookies
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Valentine Sugar Cookies

Make a Valentine`s treat your kids won`t soon forget! These super adorable Valentine Sugar Cookies are so fun to make, and make a great alternative to paper valentines.

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HEADS UP: I’m heeding my own advice and taking a HEADS UP: I’m heeding my own advice and taking a break from this account. 

I’ve felt the tug to step back and reassess what the content here looks like, it’s purpose, and whether it’s time to pivot or not.

I do know one thing—I’ll still be on Instagram! 

I’d love to have you follow the brand new @brainbooklibrary account. Even if you’re not a member, I’ll be sharing allll the productivity and planning tips there that you can use with any tool. But if you’re partial to paper planners, you’re going to be in for a treat.

And of course, I’ll still be active on @openroading as we travel up the west coast and share what full-time RV life really looks like.

I hope to see you again here at some point. But until then, I hope to connect with you on those other accounts! 

Thank you so much for being here. I APPRECIATE YOU. 

Most of all, I hope you give yourself permission to heed that nudge if you’ve needed a break too. Clarity comes when we remove ourselves from the situation long enough to approach it again with fresh perspective. 

Love you all! 🤍
I WAS INTERVIEWED FOR A PODCAST! I always assumed I WAS INTERVIEWED FOR A PODCAST!

I always assumed podcast interviews were for really important people that run multi-million dollar companies. Not for little ol’ me. 🤣 

So I was extremely honored that
@dr.laurencook from The Boardroom Brain invited me to be a guest. We had the most delightful conversation that I know you are going to LOVE!

We talked about: 

➕What it looks like to run a business when you battle depression
➕How to fall in love with Mondays (for real!)
➕Where to start when you’re completely overwhelmed by your to do list

…and more! 

Grab your headphones and listen on Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, or Amazon Music.🎧

I’d love to know what you think after you listen! ❤️
Who wants to win a cart FULL of stylish office sup Who wants to win a cart FULL of stylish office supplies? 😍📒🖊

In honor of 10 years of blogging (I know, I still can’t wrap my head around it!) I’m giving away a $100 gift card to my favorite discbound planning company @levenger. 

Their notebooks are SO high quality, but also a little pricey. So this should give one lucky winner permission to grab a few things without feeling guilty! 

✨TO ENTER: ✨
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All you have to do us tag a friend who would adore some new office supplies below. 👇🏻
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Technically, I’m not allowed to ask for a follow, but if you feel compelled to click that blue button, I won’t stop you. 😂

FYI: Neither Levenger or Instagram is sponsoring this giveaway. I just want to show my appreciation for all the love and support you’ve shown me over the years! 

🌎Open to all
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Have you ever waited over an hour to respond to a Have you ever waited over an hour to respond to a text? Or let a week go by without replying to an email? 📱

As much as you’re tempted to, you don’t need to start the conversation with “SO sorry for my delay.” 📣

All this does is perpetuate an unreasonable standard of responsiveness.🙅

Who gets to decide the appropriate response time while you are living your life? 🧐

Just because our phones are by our side 24/7, we don’t owe our undivided attention to them. 🧘‍♀️

In fact, I’d go so far as to say that real-life community and experiences are more important than our phones. 🌵

So when you hear that buzz coming from the small black rectangle in your pocket in the middle of a conversation or chore or work project, remind yourself that you don’t have to answer it. 🚫

You can get to it later. On YOUR time. Without an apology attached to it.✨

▶︎ Do you start your replies with an apology if you don't think you've responded quickly enough? 
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It’s okay if you skip a day. 😅 I know that p It’s okay if you skip a day. 😅

I know that permission slip doesn’t jive with the unrelenting pressure you put on yourself to maintain a perfect streak of habits. Because if you’re anything like me, the moment you “break the chain” is the moment you give up on that habit entirely. 

I mean, I almost threw my journal in the TRASH. 😱📔🗑️

At the beginning of the year, I purchased a regular planner and turned it into a daily journal.🖊️ 

I'm proud to say that I kept this habit... for about 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝘀. Eventually, I began skipping an evening here and there. 🥱

Now, my “journal” looks like a puzzle that isn’t quite complete. I’ve already shattered my vision of me, next January, looking back over an entire year of memories. 💔

What is the point of keeping up with it now, when I’ve already missed so much? 🤔

Maybe that sounds silly, but I know there’s someone out there who struggles with this all-or-nothing mentality too! 👌

The thing is, we can’t rate the success of our habits by a “streak.” We can certainly use that data to see how consistent we are.🔥 

But if we:

- skipped day 5 of our workout program,
- forgot to write down our daily gratitude list,
- or missed doing the Wordle of the day,

𝗶𝘁’𝘀 𝗼𝗸𝗮𝘆. ✨ 

We have to remember that 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗱. 💯

What really matters is that 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸 when you miss a day. Because 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺 has nothing to do with yesterday. 📅

▶ Are there any habits you’ve been subconsciously applying this all-or-nothing mentality to?
I’ve never really shared this before. But the I’ve never really shared this before. 

But the reason I’m so passionate about sharing organizational systems, productivity strategies, habits, routines, and goals is because they are critical to my own mental health.

If you’re new, you might not know that I battle depression and anxiety on almost a daily basis. I wake up never knowing which days will be good or bad. 

And while I extend myself a lot of grace, I also don’t want my struggles to control me. 

✨STRUCTURE ✨helps put the pieces back together when I feel like I’m falling apart. 

That’s what I want to do here. To share the same topics I’ve been sharing for the last few years, but also bring mental wellness into the conversation as the foundational WHY behind everything else.

Because if I’m being truly honest, I can’t help but notice its subtle existence behind all of the content I share... I’ve just never called it out before because it feels really scary and vulnerable! 

And yet, I’ve never more sure that this is the next right step.

Even if a struggle with mental illness isn't part of your story, we all experience challenging days where we're just trying to survive. You are always welcome here.

But if you’ve been waiting for someone who gets how hard it can be to do something as simple as take a shower some days, who knows you’re not lazy, and understands the need to balance doing hard things with grace and rest, I'm here to guide you in the right direction... and to help you feel a little less alone.💕

➤ If any part of this message resonated with you, leave a comment so I can meet you!
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