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Freezer Cooking Challenge: 6 Weeks to Fill Your Freezer

July 16, 2016 By Aileen 19 Comments This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate and member of other affiliate programs, I earn from qualifying purchases.

Freezer Cooking Challenge: 6 Weeks to Fill Your Freezer If you have been following my blog for long, you know how much I love freezer cooking. Last year, I shared my weekly freezer cooking sessions in an effort to keep a forever stocked freezer. I also love freezer cooking in preparation for a new baby,…

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Join the Freezer Cooking Challenge! 6 Weeks to Fill Your Freezer with aileencooks.com

Filed Under: Freezer Meals, Home and Garden, Mom Life Tagged With: 6 weeks to fill your freezer, challenge, freezer cooking, Freezer Meals

I Gave up on Homemade Laundry Detergent

May 23, 2016 By Aileen 26 Comments This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate and member of other affiliate programs, I earn from qualifying purchases.

I Gave up on Homemade Laundry Detergent I’ve had these great waves pushing me toward being a crunchy mom. Like any mom, I want what’s best for my kids. I’ve gone back and forth with buying organic food, breastfed past a year, and have gone full-on, all homemade cleaning products. I’ve even shared a few…

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I gave up on homemade laundry detergent https://aileencooks.com

Filed Under: Cleaning Tutorials, Home and Garden, Mom Life Tagged With: crunchy mom, homemade cleaning products, laundry

6 Wonderful Children’s Books About Gardening

May 18, 2016 By Aileen 7 Comments This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate and member of other affiliate programs, I earn from qualifying purchases.

6 Wonderful Children’s Books About Gardening After my son showed an interest in gardening this year, I decided to keep up the momentum by reading picture books on gardening. I have included amazon affiliate links for each of these books, but you may be able to find them at your public library. These books are…

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6 books I'm reading my toddler and preschooler about gardening. These are wonderful picture books and a great way to pair reading with starting a spring or fall vegetable garden. https://aileencooks.com

Filed Under: Book Reviews, Home and Garden, Mom Life, Parenting Tagged With: children's books, gardening, kids, picture books, preschoolers, reading, toddlers

9 Reasons to Garden With Kids

May 11, 2016 By Aileen 17 Comments This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate and member of other affiliate programs, I earn from qualifying purchases.

9 Reasons to Garden With Kids It’s spring time. Which means, I have the gardening itch! To my surprise, so does my son. He has been asking to go out in the garden and check the plants for the last month. Our garden was basically just overgrowth from our fall garden, but I took him…

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9 Reasons to Garden With Kids from aileencooks.com

Filed Under: Home and Garden, Mom Life, Parenting, Uncategorized Tagged With: family time, gardening, growing food, kids, preschoolers, spring, toddlers, vegetable garden

Free Laundry Room Printables

April 18, 2016 By Aileen 5 Comments This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate and member of other affiliate programs, I earn from qualifying purchases.

Free Laundry Room Printables In celebration of completing the 7 Day De-Cluttering Challenge, I decided to share two free printables for your laundry room. Now that you have a nice clean space, it’s time to decorate! Both of these prints are size 8×10. One is horizontal and one is vertical. These laundry room printables can…

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Wash Dry Fold Repeat FREE LAUNDRY ROOM PRINTABLE

Filed Under: Diy and Crafts, Free Printables, Home and Garden Tagged With: art, freebies, laundry room, printables, prints, typography

7 Day De-Cluttering Challenge: Day Seven

April 17, 2016 By Aileen 1 Comment This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate and member of other affiliate programs, I earn from qualifying purchases.

7 Day De-Cluttering Challenge: Day Seven Welcome back to the 7 Day De-Cluttering Challenge! Today is the last day of the challenge and I am feeling so good about all of the areas in my home that have been cleared and cleaned. Want to join the challenge? Start here! For the last day of the…

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7 Day De-Cluttering Challenge Day Seven. Today I cleaned and organized our arts & crafts bins.

Filed Under: Cleaning Tutorials, Home and Garden, Mom Life Tagged With: arts & crafts, cleaning, de-cluttering, organization, spring cleaning

7 Day De-Cluttering Challenge: Day Six

April 16, 2016 By Aileen 1 Comment This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate and member of other affiliate programs, I earn from qualifying purchases.

7 Day De-Cluttering Challenge: Day Six Welcome back to the 7 Day De-Cluttering Challenge! Want to join the challenge? Start here! Today, I de-cluttered the pantry. It was a big job and I’m still feeling under the weather, so my dear husband did most of the work. Our pantry had gotten way out of hand….

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7 Day De-Cluttering Challenge Day Six, Today I tackled the pantry!

Filed Under: Cleaning Tutorials, Home and Garden, Mom Life, Uncategorized Tagged With: cleaning, kitchen, organizing, pantry, spring cleaning

7 Day De-Cluttering Challenge: Day Five

April 15, 2016 By Aileen Leave a Comment This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate and member of other affiliate programs, I earn from qualifying purchases.

7 Day De-Cluttering Challenge: Day Five Welcome back to the 7 Day De-Cluttering Challenge. If you’re new, start here. Today I am tackling my dresser. I’m a little embarrassed to show this to you, but I’m committed to getting my arms around the clutter in my house this week. I’ve been feeling under the weather…

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7 Day De-Cluttering Challenge Day Five. Today I tackled my dresser and maternity clothes!

Filed Under: Cleaning Tutorials, Home and Garden, Mom Life, Uncategorized Tagged With: bedroom, cleaning, dresser, junk, maternity clothes, old clothes, organization, spring cleaning

7 Day De-Cluttering Challenge: Day Four

April 14, 2016 By Aileen Leave a Comment This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate and member of other affiliate programs, I earn from qualifying purchases.

7 Day De-Cluttering Challenge: Day Four Day Four is here! I’m glad to be half way through this project. I’m starting to feel really good about the items I am purging and the clear spaces I’m creating. I have been holding on to all of the donation bags, because I would really like to take…

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7 Day De-Cluttering Challenge Day Four - Nursery Closet

Filed Under: Cleaning Tutorials, Home and Garden, Mom Life Tagged With: 7 day challenge, cleaning, closet organization, de-cluttering, organizing, spring cleaning

7 Day De-Cluttering Challenge: Day Three

April 14, 2016 By Aileen 2 Comments This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate and member of other affiliate programs, I earn from qualifying purchases.

7 Day De-Cluttering Challenge: Day Three As you may have noticed, I’m a day late with my Day Three update. I was feeling mighty tired yesterday and just didn’t have the energy to post an update (outside of Facebook). Better late than never, right? My Day Three Challenge was to de-clutter and organize my son’s…

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7 Day De-Cluttering Challenge Day Three Kid's Closet3

Filed Under: Cleaning Tutorials, Home and Garden, Mom Life Tagged With: cleaning, closet organization, de-cluttering, organizing, spring cleaning

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