. Hi Reader, I hope you're having a good week so far! Cheaper Holiday Card Tip If you send out holiday cards to family and friends every year but don't want to pay the rising prices, consider designing them on your own in Canva, and printing them through a service like Shutterfly or Walgreens as 4x6 photos. It's significantly cheaper to do it this way. I'm actually trying this out for the first time this year instead of buying the pre-designed ones. There are different designs you can choose...

. Hi Reader, I hope you're having a great week so far! Quick update on my cat...so...she seems to be all better! She gave us quite the scare but it seems that she's on the mend! I'm counting my lucky stars and kind of calling her a zombie cat at the moment, due to the season, but I'll take it! Thanks for sticking with me through that, I appreciate you! Now on to more fun things! Today I'm sharing a Halloween Word Search with you that you can download and print for free! My kids have loved...

. Hi Reader, I hope your week has started out better than ours. I don't mean to be a downer but my blog is "The Way it Really Is" and it isn't all sunshine and rainbows. Trigger warning: death is discussed. A week ago was the 9 year anniversary of when my dear grandpa died, whom I was really close to all my life. Saturday was the 10 year anniversary of when my father-in-law died of cancer at the young age of 65. He never got to meet our kids, which is so sad for all. He would have had so much...