How to Create a Bullet Journal for Kids - Free Template Included
School Year + Kids
Sarah Brumley

How to Create a Bullet Journal for Kids

Bullet journals are all the rage right now and I have to admit, I had no idea what they were until a friend mentioned it was her New Year’s Resolution to start one. After a bit of research, I found out that I’ve spent a lot of years doing my

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How to Spring Clean Your Spiritual Life (And Your Home, Too)
Household Systems
Sarah Brumley

How to Spring Clean Your Spiritual Life (And Your Home, Too)

It’s the final day of the Lemon Blessings Spring Cleaning Challenge and it’s been a whirlwind of a week! You’ve accomplished seven days of reflection in your family, personal, and home life, and I hope and pray that you are seeing great results come from […]

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How to Spring Clean Your Personal Life (and Your Home, Too!)
Household Systems
Sarah Brumley

How to Spring Clean Your Personal Life (and Your Home, Too!)

It’s Saturday at last! I don’t know about you, but Saturday morning in my home typically finds us doing all the chores we haven’t had time to finish over the course of the week. Afterward, we normally go to the mall, on a hike, or to the library. The afternoon

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How to Spring Clean Your Marriage (And Your Home, Too!)
Household Systems
Sarah Brumley

How to Spring Clean Your Marriage (And Your Home, Too!)

It’s finally Friday, folks, and the perfect day to talk about one of my favorite subjects: marriage.

Justin and I have been married for 12 years this summer. We’ve been through our share of ups and downs, but he’s still my favorite person in the whole world. I love hanging out

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How to Spring Clean Your Friendships (And Your Home, Too)
Household Systems
Sarah Brumley

How to Spring Clean Your Friendships (And Your Home, Too)

We are halfway to the weekend at this point of the challenge. I loved your honesty with regards to our family task from yesterday. It’s wonderful when we can embrace the challenges of change together. If you are joining us for the first time today, I highly recommend that you

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How to Spring Clean Your Family Life (And Your Home, Too)
Household Systems
Sarah Brumley

How to Spring Clean Your Family Life (And Your Home, Too)

We had a great showing for Day 1 of this challenge and I hope you are as excited as I am to have your digital life more organized. I bet I’m not the only one that typed in the old password this morning before remembering changed it. Don’t worry, soon

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How to Spring Clean Your Digital Life (And Your Home, Too)
Household Systems
Sarah Brumley

How to Spring Clean Your Digital Life (And Your Home, Too)

Welcome to Day 1 of the Lemon Blessings Spring Cleaning Challenge. I’m so glad you decided to join us! If you are only in this for the cleaning tasks, feel free to scroll to the bottom of the page and get started. If you are, however, excited about the possibility

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11 Things to Consider When Starting a New Budget
Budgeting
Sarah Brumley

11 Things to Consider When Starting a New Budget

One of the hardest things to do when you are beginning a new budget or starting on the pathway to being debt free is figuring out what a budget looks like in real life. How do you break it all down for your family expenses? After all, we all vary

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A Recipe for Conquering Exhaustion
Family + Personal
Sarah Brumley

A Recipe for Conquering Exhaustion

With both of us working while juggling the girls’ homework, activities, dinners with friends, and church commitments, we are often left struggling to find time to rest. You probably know exactly what I’m talking about – all good things, but no time to recover in between. About a year ago,

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School Year Budget Survival Tactics
School Year + Kids
Sarah Brumley

School Year Budget Survival Tactics

After nearly four months of “extreme budgeting,” I came to the realization that our budget has to have a miscellaneous category with a certain amount of money in it, for the sole purpose of flexibility for additional, unbudgeted expenses. Of course, our goal […]

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Everyone loves household chores - or do they?
Household Systems
Sarah Brumley

Everyone loves household chores – or do they?

One of the hardest things about maintaining a household, especially when kids are involved, is how to get everything done in the mere 24 hours you’ve been given each day. I’ve been asked quite a few times over the past few months, how do I manage to work, raise my

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