The holidays can always be a stressful time. Whether you have overnight guests or just dinner guests it can be hard to get your home completely ready for them. Today I have some of my top tips to really make sure you and your home are ready for anything. With these tips you will be ready for anything from one guest to twenty!

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As a working mom who travels often I am always trying to better streamline my day and make my life more efficient. I’ve learned to do this out of necessity, but it has created so many more hours in my day that I can then spend with my family so it is definitely well worth it. Sometimes it’s the little things in life though that we don’t realize are sucking away precious hours. During my last cycle as I sat on my bed cursing what we as women have to deal with every month; it hit me just how many hours are wasted on something that should be way easier. Then I came across THINX and I was floored. I couldn’t believe there was something that not only took out all the wasted hours of buying feminine hygiene products, but a product that really revolutionizes your period. 

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Today may seem like a normal Saturday, but it’s not! Today is Family Volunteer Day! I posted about what our family does to give back to our community here. Family Volunteer Day is a day of service that celebrates the power of families that work together and help their communities. Family Volunteer Day is held the Saturday before Thanksgiving to really help kick off the holiday spirit of giving. This year we did some volunteering before Family Volunteer day and today we decided to keep our volunteering really close to home and help out our community directly. We went around the neighborhood cleaning up neighbor’s yards. We have some elderly neighbors that we know it’s too difficult for them to get out and clean up their yard of all the trash that blows through.

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No other activity has brought our family closer together than volunteering and giving back to our community. Even when my kids were really young I knew I wanted them understand the value and purpose to giving back and volunteering. I don’t always have a set schedule on when or where we volunteer and some of the most needed opportunities come up out of the blue. I am always on the lookout though for causes our family can contribute to. That is why I am really excited about Family Volunteer day!

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This post was sponsored by Our Schools Now in partnership with Forward Influence. I have been compensated for this campaign, all opinions are my own.

 What would you do with an extra $4 a month? Probably not a lot right? You can’t even buy a meal at a fast food restaurant for that, but when you take that $4 and pool it together with more people it starts to become a pretty substantial number. Did you know that $4 a month is all that’s needed to make a big impact with Utah schools?

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