Issue #5: Welcome to the Life Your Way weekly newsletter, where you'll find the latest posts from the blog plus special features to help you live more intentionally and creatively!
Giveaways: This week, 10 readers will win a copy of both Easy Homemade and Better Than a Box to help them keep their food resolutions for 2013. Click here to enter.
These homemade fried biscuit "donuts" are a fun treat any time of the year, but they're especially fun with heart-shaped cookie cutters for Valentine's Day!
Directions:
Combine dry ingredients. Cut in butter with two knives or rub into the flour with your hands. Slowly add milk, mixing until a ball is formed.
Roll dough out on a lightly floured surface, to about 1/2 inch thick. Use cookie cutters to cut shapes from the dough, re-rolling the excess dough until you use it all.
In a small or medium skillet, heat oil over medium-low. Drop in the dough and let sizzle until brown, then flip over and repeat. Remove from oil and immediately sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.
Serve warm -- mmm!
Love & Marriage
"One of the biggest sources of stress in a relationship is money. From how it’s spent to how much is saved, there are hundreds of decisions to be made. And when you have two people who are trying to make the decisions together, it’s even more challenging to find workable solutions." Click here to read more.
"Have you ever been at a place in your marriage where you wondered if you would make it? Or where you felt trapped because divorce was simply not an option but it seemed so hard to consider the future in relation to your present? I have. I should say we have, because I know Sean has felt these same things." Click here to read more.
Printable Routine Chart for Kids
This printable routine chart has space for both morning and evening routines. Cut out the chore reminders that apply to your family and place them in any order under morning or evening, and then hang the finished chart when the kids can see it to help them self-monitor their routines.
I always assumed that once I grew up, I’d be organized.
In high school (as I used my full body weight to shove my locker closed), in college (as I searched through a sea of paper on my dorm-room desk), and in my first apartment (as I stepped over piles of clothes) . . . it truly never occurred to me that my future home would not be perfectly organized.
I loved reading books and magazines about organizing. I could spend hours browsing through aisles of hooks and baskets and dreaming of the day when I’d get my abundance of stuff in order.
Once I turned 35, I had to accept that I was already a grown up.
But when I looked around my home, it looked nothing like I had assumed it would. It was a disaster.
It seemed that every organization technique I’d tried . . . had failed.
