Easy Two Ingredient Slime

Happy Monday! I cannot express enough how much we needed this extra day off. It turned out that Mike had the weekend off as well (which is very rare), so we just had a well earned "lazy" weekend. We spent the weekend mostly hanging out at home watching movies and football. It was perfect!

Today, the girls wanted to make one of their favorite things...slime! It's super easy! You only need 2-ingredients: liquid starch and glue. Of course, my girls like it to sparkle, so we use glitter glue.

Just mix equal parts glitter glue and liquid starch. At first it seems too runny and messy, but after a few minutes, something magical happens and it turns into slime. Honestly, I don't know how something so simple can keep these girls entertained for so long, but it works!

Stella's favorite thing to do is put a straw in the slime and blow bubbles.

So much fun!

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Yesterday...

The last several weeks have been filled with sniffles, coughs, and general crappiness for Stella. While Madelyn and I had a milder version of it, Stella's sickness seemed to linger, much like it always does. After struggling to make it through the first week back to school, she seemed to improve over the weekend and we actually made it to church on Sunday for the first time since before Christmas. Yesterday was her well check up and I figured after her appointment she would end up sick again after being exposed to doctor's office germs. Turns out, she has walking pneumonia! I would have never guessed it, she was finally feeling better! She was given a breathing treatment in the office and started some antibiotics, so hopefully she will be fully recovered quickly.

Getting Organized

One of my goals for 2017 is to get organized. Not only do I hope to organize our home, I am also looking to manage my time a little better. Obviously, having a big family makes things a bit chaotic at times. In an attempt to keep things under control and keep track of what we need to do daily, I bought myself a new daily planner.

Even though I have a phone, tablet, and laptop, I guess you could say I'm "old school". For me, physically writing things down has always been the way I stay on task. I love making lists and checking things off as I complete a task.

In addition to weekly and monthly pages (with tons of space to write), there are also a few fun pages for goals for the year, and an area to reflect back on at the end of the year.

To add a little element of fun, I picked up some cute planner stickers. Who doesn't love stickers?! I really hope that using a planner to keep track of our schedules, events, and appointments makes things a little less crazy throughout the year.

*I found the planner and stickers on Amazon.