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The Best Gingerbread Cookie Recipe Ever!

How to Make Gingerbread You Want to Eat!

December 17, 2017 By Tanya Gioia Leave a Comment · This post may contain affiliate links

Let’s face it most gingerbread is for looking not eating.  If sandwiched next to a chocolate chip cookie the poor gingerbread boys will die of loneliness. How to make Gingerbread you want to eat is a whole different recipe. Building houses and vintage campers with the gingery dough gets my creative juices flowing!  But eating…

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HOW TO MAKE AN INEXPENSIVE TREADMILL DESK

How to Make an Inexpensive Treadmill Desk

December 2, 2017 By Tanya Gioia Leave a Comment · This post may contain affiliate links

Make a treadmill desk for almost free!  It is crazy how much these new treadmill desks cost! (Looking for how to DIY a sitting Desk in a small space jump to this post.) Even A. J. Jacobs in his book Drop Dead Healthy talks about making a treadmill desk instead of purchasing a high priced…

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Win the Battle with Your Time Wasters

Win the Battle with Your Time Wasters

November 28, 2017 By Tanya Gioia Leave a Comment · This post may contain affiliate links

Time wasters are serious business for a work-from-home mom.  They rob us of the one commodity we must have to be successful–time.   Battle Strategy Against Time Wasters #1 Know your enemy Time is not your enemy, but how you choose to spend it is.  Write down the three biggest time wasters in your day. Examples:…

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10 Simple Christmas Wreaths You Can Make in An Hour

November 10, 2017 By Tanya Gioia Leave a Comment · This post may contain affiliate links

Make one of these 10 simple Christmas wreaths in less than an hour!   We don’t even start to set up our Christmas Tree until after the second weekend in December.  I often make the wreath for the door out of the trimmings off the Christmas tree we liberate from the national forest. This year…

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One Pot Meals for Thanksgiving Week Guests

November 4, 2017 By Tanya Gioia 2 Comments · This post may contain affiliate links

Thanksgiving is not just one meal when entertaining out of town holiday guests.  The  family time that Thanksgiving provides often last 3-7 days.  Delicious, ‘prepare ahead’, one pot meals are essential. Try a few of these recipes this week–be sure to make a double batch to freeze and serve. Having soup on the stove or…

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What to Do When Your Spouse is Hiding Money

October 21, 2017 By Tanya Gioia Leave a Comment · This post may contain affiliate links

I remember sitting in my Al-anon group trying to get my head around my spouse hiding money.  I just could not think through this on my own.  Thank you to everyone who showed up that night and every Thursday night to help me process my hurts, habits and hang-ups. The Pay Check That Never Made…

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5 Good Reasons to Manage Your Money That Will Change Your Life

October 12, 2017 By Tanya Gioia 2 Comments · This post may contain affiliate links

  Money is a strong theme in the Bible. Over 2000 verses about money give a sometimes confusing picture.  See how your money management agrees or disagrees with these strategies. Manage Your Money to Reduce Stress Pay savings like a bill.  It is a habit. Just like exercise, it is a discipline.  If you have…

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5 Positively Powerful Financial Habits of a Woman of Valor

October 3, 2017 By Tanya Gioia 10 Comments · This post may contain affiliate links

5 Financial habits from the Proverbs 31 Woman. Who can ever live up to those standards? Proverbs 31 is too often presented as a check list for women.  Believe me or not, the true audience of this 22 line poem is a husband. Who can find a capable wife? vs. 10 Traditionally, all of Proverbs…

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Do You Know the Risks of a Standing Desk? Truly all the rage right now since sitting is now the new smoking. High priced standing desks being requested in offices. Sitting and standing both have benefits to the body. Find out for you self if standing is the new black.

Benefits and Risks of Standing Desks

May 17, 2017 By Tanya Gioia 3 Comments · This post may contain affiliate links

What are the benefits and risks of a standing desk? Sitting is the new smoking, right?  What does that even mean? That just by sitting I am filling my lungs with toxic smoke laden with tar and other corrosive products? Excessive sitting impacts our body’s metabolic system: “Today, our bodies are breaking down from obesity,…

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Want More Free Time With Your Family?

April 19, 2017 By Tanya Gioia 2 Comments · This post may contain affiliate links

I want more free time with my family how about you?  When I add up the school/work day and see how many hours I truly spend face to face with my kids I feel sad. Before school, I spend about an hour with them and after school about 4 hours which includes dinner, homework, preparing…

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