Home Happenings

  Our schedule always gets super full when we are home in Kansas, but only because we have so many fun and amazing people in our lives!  Here are some of the HOME Happenings and a camera dump so to speak....

  We took a homeschool field trip to Aviate trampoline park with my best friend and her family, and had a BALL!  Great way to get some exercise and play too....

  We hit up all our favorite local restaurants, including Braums!  Mmm good beef for burgers and amazing milk and ice cream.

  Poor Paxton, sometimes your finger looks JUST like a fry, doesn't it?!   ouchie.  But we all had a good chuckle over it.

  School is going well, although I can tell we are ALL anxious for a summer break....

  After 2 years of loving our Chore Sticks, and each kid drawing two to complete each day, it was time to buckle down and get a little stricter again.  
  We made a schedule for the fridge of how the day should go, and a chore chart under the shower schedule on the shower door.

  Isn't it amazing how that pendulum swings too far one way, and then it has to go too far the other before you find a new middle ground?

  After 2 amazing years on the road, we were getting sloppy.  Obedience was going down and voices were going up!  Not cool.

  This has ALREADY changed EVERYTHING!  We are getting yes ma'm, we are seeing the kids quicker to obey (slow obedience is no obedience). Avery says, oh mommy, I LOVE our new schedule, I cannot WAIT for tomorrow when we can use it again!  

 Seriously?!  Pretty awesome, and proof kids crave boundaries....

  It rained and rained and rained and then it rained some more....sigh.  We can only play so many games, and read so many books, and play playdough for so long, before its time to get creative!

  We decided to play Dictonary Pictionary:

  Sooo, it was still dreary and raining!  Ugh ugh ugh.  (this cloudy overcast weather went on for a WEEEEEK)

​ Time to break out the big guns.......movie time, but FIRST, a picture scavenger hunt!

  I hid in the back and quickly made clue cards....while they cleaned up our other activites, I meandered around the house and hid them in the correct spots.  
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  It hurts my brain to do these but I LOVE THEM!  The key is to flip them over and write the correct location of where each clue should hide, to lead to the next clue in the right order.....

  In the end, it all ended happily with the new SING movie! 

  All that rain made the ticks come out in force, good thing we have an awesome homemade bug spray!  I am so so thankful for doTERRA, and how we have literally replaced all the products in our home with something simple I can buy or make myself.  When you are ready to makeover your home, I'm your girl! :) 

  I did 10 drops of each oil listed with water to the top, shake and spray. Smells amazing!  
 
  For Sophie the wiener dog, I do a mist on her legs and belly and use the terrashield oil dripped on her collar as a natural flea repellent.  You can shop products here at www.mydoterra.com/rvoilers but I'd rather you message me on this website so I can help you get everything at cost!  Friends don't let friends shop retail!!!!!  

   I am so so thankful for doTERRA, and how we have literally replaced all the products in our home with something simple I can buy or make myself.  When you are ready to makeover your home, I'm your girl! :) 

  We are blessed to have about 3,000 people on our doTERRA team.  We call ourselves the Dorothys as a little nod to our Oz Kansas roots, where it all began.
  While we are home, we try to get together with the builders and just reconnect and encourage each other...this time, we had some new paperwork to cover, so we planned a business training.  It went great!

  Did you know you can cook with your doTERRA oils? You sure can! They are like the most beautiful cooking extracts, straight from nature.  Lemon rosemary chicken, cilantro lime rice, lemongrass ginger stir fry...the list goes on.
  For our meeting we made Wild Orange Dark Chocolate brownies, Double Chocolate Cinnamon Brownies and Triple Fudge Peppermint brownies. YUMMO!  They were all amazing.
  We did like 6 drops orange in the batter, maybe 4 peppermint and 8 cinnamon.

  A trip home would NOT be complete without a GIRLS NIGHT.....

  We started off with a ditch your bra party!  Yup, its a thing.  And yes, you can be comfortable and much healthier for your body when wearing these awesome cami's!   UNDERWIRE is HORRIFIC for you, it blocks the flow of your body and causes all kinds of issues for womens health, so does deo.  That's a different subject for a different day.  

  I choose a molded cup non wire bra carefully, but this is even a step better.  (*Note, since writing this post, I have had it for nearly a month, and I NEVER want to take it off.  The day I wash and hang it to dry, I am sad to have to go back to regular bra.  I am LOVING how it makes my tummy feel too. SO stretched out from babies!!!)

  Ruby Ribbon is the name of the company.  I haven't worn my regular bra since this party.  Why would I when I can lose 2 inches, have a smooth back, all while being FREE in this cami bra?! ;)
  Check out www.rubyribbon.com/stephaniearnold  She'll take SUCH good care of you!!!

  After checking out, we went back to Momma B's house for cards and homemade PEACH pie with ice cream.  (Oh my lanta was it good!)

  And DigestZen essential oil shots to help us deal with ALL THAT FOOD in our bellies.  

  And then, for fun???? we all ate some kind of nasty year old fermented pickled stuff that helps your tummy.   My mom is into all that.

  It worked amazing!!!
  Unless your me.

 Then it just makes you gag, and dry heave and bloat and get gassy.  Pffft!

​Just sayin.... ;)  Guess I need to eat year old food more often???

Slide show of all the fun

  That's it for now....we are hard at work on the apartment we are building for our Home Sweet Hub to stop through as we travel.

  Hopefully I can blog that soon, but right now, its just kinda the boring stuff like HVAC and electrical.  All important, but not that fun to take photos of! :)

​Hugs, T