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How to Organize Your Planner for a Large Family

These tips for organizing your planner are AWESOME. And they can be used for families of all sizes. This post was originally written and published on November 22, 2015 by my friend, Jeniece, a busy...

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Snickerdoodle Body Scrub

This snickerdoodle scrub smells so amazingly delicious!  Go ahead and make a double batch, you won’t regret it. Winter has me on a sugar scrub kick.  My skin gets so dry when it’s really cold outside!...

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Thursday Three: Utility Vest

A basic utility vest is so versatile!  Here are three looks I shared on Instagram using this easy wardrobe workhorse.   I’ve had this utility vest for a few years and I wear it a ton.  I love how...

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Amazon Essentials Brand Clothing Review

I used Prime Wardrobe to review Amazon Essentials brand clothing.   Amazon has it’s own brand of clothing, Amazon Essentials, and I’ve been eyeing it for a while.  The line is made up of wardrobe...

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The Secret to Teaching Your Shy Child to Make Friends

As a mom to a shy kiddo, these are my tips for helping a shy child to make friends. This post was originally published on February 15, 2015. I was painfully shy as a kid.  I was so shy that when we...

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Why I Can’t Get On Board with Marie Kondo

Marie Kondo’s method of tidying up just isn’t for me.  Here’s why. I really WANTED to love the KonMari method.  When Marie Kondo’s book, The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, came out, I was in a...

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Chores for a Three-Year-Old

Preschool age is a great time to get kids involved with housework.  Here’s a big list of age appropriate chores for little kids. Originally published October 24, 2014. When my oldest kiddo turned...

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Stitch Fix Spring Wardrobe Refresh

My Stitch Fix stylist picked some gorgeous items for my spring wardrobe refresh! It’s not quite spring, but I’m already dreaming of warmer weather.  It’s been a particularly rough winter, y’all!  My...

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Book Review: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

I gave Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, by Gail Honeyman, 5/5 stars.  Here’s my review. Title: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine Author: Gail Honeyman Published: May 9, 2017 In Brief:  Eleanor...

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Amazon Essentials Brand Clothing Review (Box 2)

Amazon Essentials brand clothing review – Part 2! I found so many cute things I wanted to try in my first Amazon Essentials brand clothing review that I had to fill another Prime Wardrobe box and try...

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Free Printable 2020 Calendar

The FREE 2020 Calendar is now available!   Ya’ll loved the 2019 calendar so much, and I got so many requests for a 2020 version.  So here it is!   Last year, many of you suggested I make other...

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Book Review: Little Fires Everywhere

Book Review: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng One of my top 10 fiction books of 2019!The post Book Review: Little Fires Everywhere appeared first on Pockets Full of Wonder.

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The Best Books I Read in 2019

Best Books of 2019 Well, 2019 was a record year for me in regards to reading books! I originally set what felt like a lofty goal of 24 books for the year. That’s 2 per month, or 1 every 2 weeks. And...

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Friends Who Read Challenge

Up your reading in 2020 with this fun and easy challenge! Last summer I did something I’d wanted to do for a long time. I created a reading group for friends who love to read. It’s not a ‘book club’...

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THE BEST Tips for Reading More from Actual Readers

I asked a group of avid readers for their best tips for making time to read and they had LOTS of great advice! Here are all their tips for reading more!The post THE BEST Tips for Reading More from...

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The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

Twin sisters, Stella and Desiree, were inseparable as kids, but diverged as adults. One returned to her small Louisiana all-Black hometown after many years away. The other mysteriously disappeared to...

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The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo

Tensions come to a head in the dramatic fallout of one sister meddling in another’s affairs and dredging up the past. The relationship dynamics are slowly, heartwarmingly/heartbreakingly explained...

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The Fifth Letter by Nicola Moriarty

Four long-time friends grow apart as life changes with marriages, careers, and babies entering the picture. The women gather for a beach vacation and some time to reconnect, but things turn dark when...

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Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

Notoriously competent and accomplished Bernadette Fox is falling apart. After horribly bungling a school fundraiser, she disappears, leaving her husband and teenage daughter to clean up her mess. While...

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In Five Years by Rebecca Serle

Book Review: In Five Years by Rebecca Serle Everything in Dannie’s life is going exactly as planned. Then she has an eerily realistic dream - no, a vision - of her life in 5 years in which she wakes up...

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