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20+ Rustic Christmas Projects

September 22, 2018 By Rose

Thanks so much for visiting stopping by! I’d love for you to Sign up for FREE updates in your inbox or in your feed reader to keep up with all the latest things I’m sharing! I cannot believe it’s the time of year to start thinking about this, but since I saw aisles and aisles…

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Why I Quit Buying Laundry Detergent to Save Money!

September 10, 2018 By Rose

Today I want to share with you Why I Quit Buying Laundry Detergent to Save Money!  What?? Yes – I quit buying and using any form of laundry detergent. I’m also not making homemade laundry detergent like I used to.  I actually haven’t used one scoop, cupful or pod of any kind of laundry detergent…

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4 Comments Filed Under: Frugal Living, Home Management

17 Ordinary Things I’ve Never Done…

April 23, 2016 By Rose

17 Ordinary Things I’ve Never Done… This post is just for fun.  It’s meant be lighthearted … not serious.  I’m fully aware that many of these things would not be considered ordinary for a lot of people… but I tried to cover a broad range of activities 🙂  1.  Had surgery. Other than having babies, I’ve…

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13 Comments Filed Under: Miscellaneous

Why We Have 8 Savings Accounts… and how that turned our finances around.

April 12, 2016 By Rose

We have 8 Savings Accounts… and how that turned our finances around.  For years and years and years and years, my husband and I struggled to save money. I don’t mean “save money” as in, use coupons to cut our bills, I mean we struggled to build a savings account, an emergency fund… a safety…

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41 Comments Filed Under: Being Debt-Free, Frugal Living, Goals, Home Management

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

January 26, 2016 By Rose

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing Have ya’ll read this book? I’m going to give a very short review. I absolutely loved some of her methods and techniqes and can see how following those would greatly reduce the amount of “stuff” we have in our home. She’s inspiring…

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Be a “Yes” Mommy this Christmas!

December 21, 2015 By Rose

Be a "Yes" Mommy! RoseAtwater.com

Would you do me a favor?  Be a “Yes” Mommy this Christmas! A few days ago I shared this on Facebook and it’s stayed on my  mind since then.  I’m expanding on the thoughts a little for this post but overall… the sentiment is the same! I want to be a “yes” mommy. Learning to…

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3 Comments Filed Under: Being Mommy, Family

Top 15 Pumpkin Patches of Mississippi (and surrounding areas)

October 13, 2015 By Rose

Top 15 Pumpkin Patches of Mississippi (and surrounding areas) Last year my family, along with my best friend Kathy and her family (that’s all of our kiddos below!) went to visit a fantastic pumpkin patch and corn maze down in Louisiana.   The kids all enjoyed it so very much and have been asking if…

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3 Comments Filed Under: Family Tagged With: Fall

DIY: Recycled Pallet Ceiling

January 15, 2015 By Rose

We’ve lived in this house for almost 5 years and finally, we have almost finished updating one room.   Ha!  I would say we’ve reached 99% done on our family room.  My husband worked for over 4 months on doing the Recycled Pallet Ceiling. Granted, if he didn’t work full time and we didn’t have other…

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42 Comments Filed Under: DIY Homemaking, Frugal Living

Words Hurt

November 9, 2014 By Rose

Words hurt.  That little childhood rhyme, “sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.”… that’s a lie.  Words can be some of the single most painful things you ever have to deal with in your life. A couple of weeks ago I posted this picture (on the left) on Facebook….

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47 Comments Filed Under: Faith, Family, Weight Loss

Fire & Ice Pickles

July 20, 2014 By Rose

This past Christmas, my Aunt Louinda bought us (and all of her nieces and nephews families) jars of Fire & Ice Pickles for Christmas.  They were from a local restaurant and man, oh man, were they fantastic. In fact, my sister-in-law Ariel was pregnant at the time with sweet Perry Kathryn and she became completely…

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