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How to Easily Remove Pet Hair from Carpet and Upholstery — a Modern Mrs.
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How to Easily Remove Pet Hair from Carpet and Upholstery. Meet Slash. Slash is a golden retriever. If you weren't already aware, goldens (as they're affectionately called) have long hair. It's beautiful. It's also messy. Very, very. Vacuumed or not; you're going. To get hair on your clothes with Slash around. You'll never believe what works. A simple window squeegee will remove pet hair from carpets and upholstery! Quick While it is time consuming, it's extremely. Effective at getting the job done. I...
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Post-Surgery, Cloth Diapers, and {Hopefully} Upcoming Posts #OldSchoolBlogging — a Modern Mrs.
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Post-Surgery, Cloth Diapers, and {Hopefully} Upcoming Posts #OldSchoolBlogging. I love my daughter. I really, truly do. I also love blogging, and I feel like it's impossible to balance the two. Not because I. Can't manage, but because E will have none of it. If she doesn't have 100% of my attention { and person. One day," it has been said to me. "One day." While that may be true, I can't have the blog sitting here collecting dust. I have so much to say! Those fluffy, adorable vessels for housing pee and ...
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What Bedtime Looks Like at Our House #MomBloggersClub — a Modern Mrs.
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What Bedtime Looks Like at Our House #MomBloggersClub. Have you heard of Mom Bloggers Club. It's the "oldest and the largest social network dedicated to mom bloggers in the world." They post daily blog prompts over on their Facebook Page, which is a great resource when you have writer's block, or. If you're like me, when you don't have time to get any new recipes to try { or cook in general. Printables created, or makeup/fashion-worthy looks made. Well, today's prompt. It wasn't that far off from what we...
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Lesson Learned: A Cloth Diapering Update — a Modern Mrs.
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Lesson Learned: A Cloth Diapering Update. When making the decision to cloth diaper, I read it all. I read my manufacturer's information, checked with cloth diaper stores, read blog posts, and even joined a Facebook group. I was set! But more on that soon. For my diapers, since it was made by my manufacturer. So, I asked in group, read blog posts, and devised a wash routine that looked like this:. Rinse and spin, no detergent. { This was to remove the soil from the diapers prior to the wash. Wrong All wro...
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a Modern Mrs.: About
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Welcome to a Modern Mrs. I'm Kristen Alvis; the thirty-something wife and mother of two, new Oregonian, small business owner, chai latte lover, and super rad lady. if I do say so myself. I'd like to say I'm pretty basic, but I do have my challenges. I have OCD, anxiety, and Ulcerative Colitis. I'm a ritualistic, worrisome, autoimmune-deficient mess sometimes, but don't let that scare you away! Most of the time I'm a fun-loving, serial socializer who loves to crochet! Any tech-related products are not onl...
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Cloth Diapering (One Week In) — a Modern Mrs.
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Cloth Diapering (One Week In). We have officially begun our cloth diapering journey! Today marks one full week of using cloth diapers, although we aren't using them at night because I just don't have enough { yet. So I guess I should say one full week of part-time cloth diapering. I'm terribly behind on posts, and I figured this was just what I needed to get back in gear. One Gal's Thoughts on the GroVia System. Well, it's nice, but I have to go with what we're experiencing now. What I need. I also d...
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Boulevard of Chic: A Free Baltimore Holiday Fashion Event #BlvdofChic — a Modern Mrs.
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Boulevard of Chic: A Free Baltimore Holiday Fashion Event #BlvdofChic. You know what occurred to me last night? L and I were looking through our movie collection deciding on what we should watch when she gets home today, and with Halloween behind us, we realized it's officially time to break out the Christmas movies! This realization produced another realization — we only have 49 days till Christmas! I had never heard of this particular. Event before, though I have. For photos from last year's show, and ...
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How to Make a Curtain Headboard — a Modern Mrs.
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How to Make a Curtain Headboard. What feels like forever ago, I had mismatched furniture, a bed with no headboard, and a very long, plain, white wall. With a tiny budget, and a desperate need. To make my bedroom look even marginally better, I opted for a curtain headboard. While my particular project isn't the best, and my bedroom is far from gracing the cover of Home Decor magazine, it will at least. Let's take a quick look at the before photos, then I'll break down the materials. Simple. Just insta...
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Sound Sleeper: Your Solution to Sleepless Nights — a Modern Mrs.
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Sound Sleeper: Your Solution to Sleepless Nights. Remember when I talked about what bedtime looks like at our house. More specifically, the bit about E's lack of sleep in the nap and 8-10pm department? Well, we're still adhering to our E.A.S.Y. and bedtime routines, but we were still struggling with naps and that 8-10pm window. There would be one out of every three or four nights where she'd actually sleep during that window, but it wasn't without much. Here you can see the sound options, which are avail...
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#Truth: Things Don't Turn Out As Planned — a Modern Mrs.
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Truth: Things Don't Turn Out As Planned. I was chatting with a good friend last night about how I feel as if I'm crawling out from under a rock. E will be nine months old on the 16th, and I'm just now. Getting back into my blogging and beauty routines. This conversation reminded me how when I was still pregnant with her, and even when she was first born, I had this vision that I would be able to blog { even just a little. Than daily or weekly blog posts. A lot happened in those early months, between ...
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