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  Attracting birds to your yard or to a bird feeder can yield some interesting sights.  Below is a photo of a  male house finch feeding a female house finch! Easy to make bird feeders and paint-it-yourself bird houses have always been a part of our family activities and integrated into our homeschool science. Birding can easily and inexpensively be a year-round science study for your homeschool or classroom. We have several feeders right outside our kitchen window where we have watched fledglings follow their Dad around as they are given a lesson on finding food.  We often find ourselves...

Are money issues ruining your marriage or relationship? Every November and into January of the following year I get so many emails about needing help with money problems. In part, I believe that people who don’t budget, spend freely, and hope for the best need far more help than those who do use a budget. Today, I want to explain to you how you can fix your money problems and it only works if you REALLY want it to. At the very  bottom of the post you will see our November budget numbers and how we spent our money. Money...

I am so ready to share with you my “teeny tiny rental bathroom refresh” reveal. It’s been almost 3 months to the day since four of us on the EHD team – Jess, Ryann, Caitlin & myself – shared our rental bathroom woes with you and the design dreams we had for them. I technically completed the 2-month challenge that Jess set out for us since Sara shot my bathroom at the end of August and am so excited to share it today. I love (read: need) a deadline to get those items that are lower on my priority life...

Born for Leaving by Jude Munro (New England State of Mind, #1) Publication date: July 2nd 2020 Genres: Adult, LGBTQ+, Romance When they say be careful what you wish for, do you pay attention? Neither did Oliver Tunstead. Oliver wishes for nothing more than to get his mind off his crappy bartending job, pile of debt big enough to swallow him whole, and playboy ex-boyfriend/boss who refuses to back off. Too bad distractions, like the hot little convertible he has his eye on, cost megabucks. And Oliver is flat broke. Renting the spare bedroom in his rundown beachfront cottage is his...

Romantic Suspense Sale Only 99c. Title: I Dream of Spiders & I Fade Away Duet: Dream Duet  Author: Elle Keating Genre: Romantic Suspense Available NOW 99 Pennies The move to the remote town of Quarry Hill, Pennsylvania was supposed to help Griffin McGuire start over and forget the two people who betrayed him. As a paramedic at the local hospital, he would still have to interact with people, but the rest of the time he could hole himself away in the secluded cabin he was renting. It was perfect. For the first time in over a year, he felt like...