{My Pregnancy Journey} A Company I Love!

I have been wanting to write this post for sometime now to tell you all about a company a friend shared with me. I'm absolutely in love with there Company, Products and Mission.

Its called The Honest Company

*This Post Contains Affiliate links!

My Friend and her husband had been using Honest Company Bath & Body Products and 

Honest Company Cleaning Products for 2 years now and love it, She was always telling me how much she likes it. Well they just had their first baby and was telling me how they are going to be using Honest Baby Products. Well me expecting my first little one I wanted to Check it out more.

Now being over at her house I have use some of the Products before such as..

Organic Healing Balm
I love how creamy it is!

Honest Dish Soap


Honest Multi-Surface Cleaner
Love the the smell of this stuff.

After using these items at my friend's house I have have been wanting to get some but never got around to it. But now that Little man is on his way I really want to use better products around my home and once she told me they have baby Products I knew I have to look into them more.

Here is what I found:

The Company was Founded By Jessica Alba & Christopher Gavigan, They both wanted an Ideal Not only effective, but unquestionably safe, Eco-friendly, beautiful, convenient, and affordable - everyone should have products. And providing us with the best family essentials delivered right to your doorsteps.

There Products are made with safer ingredients for your entire family.

To read more about them visit Honest.com

When I visited the site I seen that they offer Free Trial* so I jumped on that and ordered.

  Honest Diaper Trial
 


Honest Essentials Trial

I'm have received my product and I'm so happy with them I will be writing a review soon on each product that I use.

I can't wait until Little man gets here so I can use my baby items but once I use them I will write a review on them.

I know that for sure I will be keeping my Essentials Bundle Coming as I do really love the products. as for the Diaper Bundle I love the Feel and look of the diapers but because my Little man will not be here until March I can't really say yet because I haven't used them. But once I do you will hear all about it.

Disclosure: Yes this post has Affiliate links in it, But what I write is my true honest to goodness feeling The Honest Company is not telling me what to say. I would Not write about a product if I Didn't agree with it and I would not be a Affiliates of a product that I don't 100% love.

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Have You Used The Honest Company?

What do you think of them and there products?

What you should read next:

-Essentials Bundle Review (Coming Soon)

-Review on The Honest Company (Coming Soon)

-The Honest Company Home Delivery Vs Target (coming soon)

-Diaper Bundle Review (Coming Soon)

{Planner's} 2015 Family Financial Plan!

This Binder is a lot more than Just a Budget. I love my Family Financial Plan, Since I have been using this I have been so much more organized with my bill's and been able to keep track of our spending. 

Here is what is In the Binder:
- 2015 Calendar
- Monthly Budget Worksheet
- Income Tracker
- Expense Tracker
- Loans & Credit Card Tracker


Here is how my Binder is set up:

I use a 2" Binder that has a pocket on the front and back on the inside. With 4 Divider Tabs, Labeled.
- Budget
- Expenses
- Income Tracker
- Loans & Credit Card's
- Past Months

(1) I have my Binder Cover Page and my Binder spine.

Tip: To make it easier to insert your Binder spine, Open your binder laying it flat on your table with the outside facing up (shown in photo below)

Now insert your Binder Spine.

(2) When you first open My Binder on the Left side there is a pocket I used my label maker to make a label saying  "Bills To Pay" and put it on the outside of the pocket.

 In this Pocket I put all the bill that need to be paid in this spot. I also have a pen, Envelope Opener and checkbook in this pocket, and I have a thing of stamps paper clipped to the pocket, This makes everything I will need in one place.

(3) The First thing you see on the right inside my binder is the Calendar. I use the calendar to write when bills are due.so example: as soon as I get a bill in the mail I check the due date and write it on the calendar Like with the Name and amount, then I place the Bill in the pocket on the left side.

(as seen in photo)

(4) Next I have a Tab Labeled "Budget" I have my budget under this.

(5) A Tab Labeled "Expenses" I have my Expense Tracker page under this. Each week when I sit down to do my bills I gather all receipts and add them to the expense tracker. then I throw away any that I don't need to save for Taxes and any that I do I file in my Filing box.

(6) A tab labeled "Income Tracker" I have my Income Tracker page under this. at the end of each month I add up all my hubby's pay stubs and Side Jobs and add them to the Income Tracker.

(7) A "Loans & Credit Card's" tab I keep my Loan's & Credit Card Tracker Page here

(8) A "Past Months" tab at the end of the month I look over the budget, Expense Tracker & Income Tracker, and I use a blank copy of the monthly budget worksheet and fill it out will everything we did that month I label the top of the budget with the month. and place it in my binder under the "past months" tab along with that month's expense tracker and pay stubs I keep up to 6 months at a time in my binder because every 6 month my hubby and I sit down and go over our budget and spending together this way everything is in one spot and i don't have to search and all my totals are there and I can easily compare to past months and see where we need to cut back or where we can afford to have a little flexibility.



(9) In the very back of my folder is a pocket I put all my Recipes that need to be added to the Expense Tracker in there.

So there you have it that's my Financial Binder. I absolutely love it and love this method it really works for me.

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New Shop!

I'm Happy to Announce that I have finally Opened the Becoming the Ultimate Housewife's Shop!

After Looking long and hard I have decided to open my shop up using Esty.

I have been working on many projects to add to the Shop,

Here are some of the things you will find on there or coming soon...

Planners: Family, Financial, Wedding, Pregnancy & Home 

Checklist: Weekly House Cleaning, Monthly House Cleaning, Quarterly House Cleaning, Annually House Cleaning

List: Shopping, To Do's, and more

Kid's: Money Saving Charts, Potty Training Charts, Routine Charts

Home Decor

You can visit the shop By going to the Menu on the right side of the blog under menu you will see (Our Shop!) Or

on Etsy as UltimateHWShop

For my readers I'm offering a 75% Off Coupon for our shop just use code: NewShop

Rush on over to use the code wall it's available it will not be around forever!

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{My Pregnancy Journey} Problem with this weeks Challenge Post! Week 3

I'm Very Sorry I just Now Noticed that Monday's Post for the Challenge (Challenge Week 3) Never Uploaded! I'm so sorry for the inconvenience to everyone who is following the challenge!

Do that now its so late in the week and if I post it now everyone would have a lot to do in a week I Decided that I will post it Friday for next week!

So for this week There will be no Challenge Post!

So Just take some time to putter on your home and give it a good straightening up.

and I look forward to seeing your Progress and how you're doing with the challenge! 

Feel free to comment or send me a email contactus@ultimatehousewife.com with what you have got done and if you would like to send photos I would love to see!

{My Pregnancy Journey} Challenge Week 2!

Don't Know About The Challenge Yet Visit The Post "New Challenge Part 1" Click Here to go check it out!

Challenge Week 1

Here Is what I Accomplished This week!

Monday: Today I was Not Feeling So up To Power!

Cleaning Task: Laundry

• Washed My Daily Laundry Load
• Folded Laundry
• Put away Laundry

De clutter Task:Magazines

Go through You stack of Magazines and clean them out.

Tuesday:

Cleaning Task: Fridge

Clean Out Your Kitchen Fridge!

• Take Everything Out
• Clean shelves and drawers.
• Wipe Down items that you took out
• Once all done give the outside of your fridge a good wipe down and shine.

De clutter Task: Fridge

Do You Have Food Items that you never use? (Sauce that you found on sale but nobody in the house likes it? Etc...) Throw them out they are just making clutter.

Organizing Task: Fridge

Organize the Inside of your Fridge. Putting with like items together.

Baby Task: Do something good for you and your baby.

Do something good for you and Baby, do 30 minutes of a pregnancy workout, walking or prenatal yoga. My personal favorite is yoga.

Routine: Cleaning out your Fridge.

Set a time each week that you do a quick clean and wipe down of your fridge, Preferably the day you make you meal plan or the day before you go shopping.

Also Set a Time each month that you give your fridge and deep clean.

Wednesday: 
Most homes have some Kind of Paper Clutter. Today we are going to get all our paper stuff in order by sorting and filing.

Cleaning Task: Paper

• Go around your home and gather all Paper, Mail, Junk Mail, Recipes, Online Printouts, Manuals, Tax papers, Piles of paper work, That pile of mixed papers that you have know clue what's in it. Gather it all and put it in one place.
• Now Get a Box & a Trash bag

De clutter Task: Paper

• Sort Through The Pile Making piles that need to be filed or need a home. throwing trash into the trash bag and things that can be recycled into the box.
• Take out the trash & Recycle Box

Organizing Task: Paper

• File all Paper Piles. If you don't have a File make one.
• Start a sorting system that will work for you. so these piles don't happen all over the house. 
• A bin for mail
• A Bin for things that need to be filed
• A bin of papers your Hubby needs to look at etc...

Click Here to read how I Organize my files

Routine: Sort Your Mail & Files

Find a time each week that works for you to sit down a sort your mail, sort your files and file them.

Baby Task: Start a Baby Binder

Get a binder where you can put all your baby info in.

10 Minute Only Task: Clean Off one Shelf in your home

Thursday:

Cleaning Task: Office

• De Clutter Office Desk
• Empty Trash
• Dust all surfaces
• Give Computer a good clean. Read How 
• Clean Window
• Pick up items off of floor
• Pick up item off of the floor so you can vacuum (Trash can, chair etc...)
• Clean Baseboards
• Vacuum Floor
• Place items Back on floor.

Organizing Task: Office Desk

• Organize your top of your desk in a way that works for you.
• Organize each drawer of you desk

De clutter Task: Top of Your Office Desk

De clutter Your Office desk! Do you have to many things on it? deco, supplies, pens, paper, junk. De clutter your desk find new homes for things that don't need to be on top of your desk. Put the stapler in the drawer. clean out some of the pens etc...

Routine: Desk

make it a Routine that before you leave your desk that you put everything away. never say you will come back to something! even if you're not completely done with something put it away or it might never get put away.

10 minute only task: Email

Unsubscribe from emails you don't want to get anymore

Friday:
Cleaning Task: Ceiling Fans

Clean all ceiling fans in your home
Read How Here 

Organizing Task: Calendar

Go throught the year and put all important Dates in your calendar, Anniversaries, Parties, appointments etc...

De Clutter Task: Junk Drawer

All homes have some kind of Drawer where it's kinda a throw all. In some homes this drawer can have order and be neat in other homes it can be the i can't ever find anything in here drawer. Today De clutter your junk drawer.

• Clean drawer out
• Give it a good Wipe down
• Place items you want to keep in there back in. Do so in a organized way.

Baby Task: Calendar

Add any baby stuff to your calendar. and look and see what dates will not work for the baby shower and be sure to give them to the host so they know not to plan on those dates.

Well That's It For This week! 
It May seen like a lot or it may seem like a little to you, Whatever the case work at your own speed. And never over work yourself remember you're pregnant and need rest, and you and the baby come before anything else so if you're getting tired take a break, drink or eat something!

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{My Pregnancy Journey} Challenge Week 1

Don't Know About The Challenge Yet Visit The Post "New Challenge Part 1" Click Here to go check it out!

My Kitchen

Challenge Week 1

Here Is what I Accomplished This week!

Monday:

Cleaning Task: The Kitchen

• Load Dishwasher
• Wash all Dirty Dishes
• Give Sink a Good Scrub
• Picked Up Counter
• Clean Microwave 
• Wiped Down Counter
• Cleaned Window 
• Wipe down the the outside of cabinets
• sweep floor.

De clutter Task:

• Picked up clutter on counter
• Paper clutter
• Food Clutter
• Appliances and Knick Knacks

Organizing Task: Under your Kitchen Sink

Take everything out and give the shelves a good Clean. Put everything back neatly and in a organized way. Toss anything that you never use or that is trash!

Routine: Dishes

Do your Dishes Right after dinner. If you are finding that after dinner you are too tired to do so then maybe think about serving dinner a little earlier so you're not as tired. 

also think about running your dishwasher at night and then emptying it in the morning.

10 Minute Only Task: Dining Room Table

Clean off your Dining Room Table and give it a good wipe down.

Tuesday:

Cleaning Task: Laundry Room

• Sort Your Laundry
• Clean Vacuum out your Dust Trap of your Dryer
• Wipe Down Your Laundry room Walls (They can get very Dusty)
• Wipe down the outside of your washer and dryer
• Clean your Countertops'
• Wipe Down the outside of your cabinets
• Take out any Trash
• Refill and Laundry soap dispensers
• Do a Load of laundry

De clutter Task: Countertops & Top of Washer & Dryer

If you have a lot of stuff on your counter or on the top of your Washer & Dryer like socks, Loose change Figure out a System that looks less cluttered Like a Jar for Loose Change or a Basket That lost socks can go in. But try to put a stop to this clutter.

Organizing Task: Dirty Laundry

It may sound funny but I organize my Laundry I have 4 Brackets 3 are Under my washer and Dryer and one Between my washer and dryer. I sort my laundry by loads so on the day that its time to do that load i don't have to wasted time sorting i can just throw it in the wash. I also makes it easy for when one basket is getting a little to full i know i need to run an extra load that day. here is how i have mine sorted.

1. Normal Load: Work Clothes, Jeans, Socks and underwear
2. Delicate: All of my tops and Hubby's Shirts
3. Towels
4. Hand Wash: Things that need to be hand washed or washed by themselves.

I sort my laundry different from other's because this is what works for me. some people do Darks, Lights etc... but I Never have a full load of Lights normally 1-2 items a week so i just throw them in with my delicacies.

Most of my tops i wash on Delicate but it don't make a full load that's why I add my hubby's Shirts in with his load. 

Baby Task: Laundry Basket

Now That There will be a baby there will be more laundry and because I'm going to be washing the baby's items in different laundry soap it's going to be a whole nother load. So today add a basket to your laundry room or your sorting system for baby items.

I added another small basket between my Washer & Dryer for the babies items.

Routine: Laundry Schedule

Have a Laundry Schedule so maybe that you do one load a day or 2 or 3 a day Make a Schedule that works for you and your family and make a chart put it in your laundry room and try to stick with it.

Don't forget to add baby Items to the schedule and then just for now you can ignore that part of the schedule.

Here is my new schedule i made:

Monday: Delicacies & Hand Wash Items

Tuesday: Towels

Wednesday: Normal Load

Thursday: Baby Items

Friday: Sheets

Saturday & Sunday I have the day off

10 Minutes Only Task: Windows

Clean All the windows in the main areas of the home!

Wednesday:

Cleaning Task: Master Bedroom

• Remove all bedding
• Wash all bedding
• Place decorative Pillows On the line in the sun to help remove germs
• Vacuum Mattress
• Pick up and put away all clothing
• Pick Up and put or throw away all paper clutter
• Pick up and put or throw away all other clutter
• Dust all Surfaces,dressing table, mirrors, night stands, picture frames, decor
• Clean ceiling fan
• Vacuum the floor and under the bed.
• Make the bed with fresh clean bedding.

De clutter Task: Master Bedroom

Look around your room do you have to much stuff around? (I know I did) To Many Cute knickknacks? These things can be cute but too many of them can make a room look cluttered and messy and can make your Job at cleaning a lot harder. So take a look and see what you can move to another room, sell or Donate!

Organizing Task: Nightstands

My top nightstand Drawer

Take everything out of your nightstand drawer give the drawer a good wipe down. Go through the items that were in there Throwing away any trash, clutter, and things that you want to keep but will not be keeping in your nightstand put it into a Keep Box. Read about My Organizing Boxes Here!

Then Put everything you want to keep in your nightstand back into it in a clean and organized way. move on to the next drawer. and if your hubby don't mind do his nightstand as well.

Routine: Make Your Bed & Open Blinds

Every Morning before you leave your room make your bed, if you say you will come back to it it will never get done. When the bed is made the room looks cleaner. 

Open your window blinds The sunlight will help with any bad odors in the room. and it makes it look nice in there.

Or make a last one up rule! A Friend of mine her and her husband have a rule that on the weekends who ever is the last one out of bed has to make it! This really works for them. (I tried it and my bed never got made on the weekend or when my hubby would do it, it always looked messy to me lol But this might work for you)

Baby Task: Personal Items

You may want to rethink where you keep your and your hubby's Bedroom Personal Items! With a new baby that last thing you would want was for you little one to find that Special little box under your bed. 

(I have a friend who kept hers under her bed in a cute little hat box, one day when she have family and friends over her toddler came running out of her room with something in hand, Very embarrassing.)

So lesson learned hide it were in will be safe or has a key or something. Just something to think about.

10 Minute Only Task: Keep Box

Clean Out Your Keep Box

Thursday:

Cleaning Task: Living Room

• Wash any Throw Blankets
• Hang Decorative Pillows on the line in the sun
• Pick up any Trash
• Pick up any clutter
• Clean ceiling fan
• Dust Pictures, tables, shelves any decor in the room
• Clean window
• Vacuum sofa
• Spot clean sofa
• Vacuum floor
• Put pillows and Throw Blankets Back

Organizing Task: DVDs & Video Games

My DVD Binder I keep This in a Cabinet.

Rethink how you store your DVDs and Games. Do you have them all on a shelf in your living room? This could be making the room look more cluttered and it gives you more things to dust think about putting them in a cabinet or store them like i do in a binder.

De clutter Task: DVDs &  Video Games

Do you have movies or games that you just don't really like but you own them, or movies you know you will never watch? video games you will never play? Then consider Selling or donating them.

Baby Task: Reading

Do Some reading! Start Reading the Book "What to expect when Expecting" or any other baby info book you have been wanting to read.

10 minute only task:

Don't let your Kitchen Get away Give it a straiten. 

Friday:
Cleaning Task: Floors

 Vacuum & Mop all floors.

• Pick everything you can up of the floor
• Vacuum all Floors in your home
• Mop all Hard Floors in your Home (Wood, Tile Etc...)
• Once Dry Place everything Back

Wall floors are drying Give yourself a little break maybe take a nap. You know with being pregnant you got to be tired!

Well That's It For This week! It May seen like a lot or it may seem like a little to you, Whatever the case work at your own speed. And never over work yourself remember you're pregnant and need rest, and you and the baby come before anything else so if you're getting tired take a break, drink or eat something!

Challenge Week 2>>

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What Do you think Of this Week?

New Challenge Part 2

If You Haven't Watched "New Challenge Part 1" Yet Click Here to Go watch It first!

For Info On the Challenge Please Watch the Video Below!

Recap:

How The Challenge Will Work!

Again This Challenge Is not Just For Expecting Families only, We will be doing many Kind of Task so Any One Can Join The Challenge.

This Challenge will be a little Different From other challenges, As to it will Be a Weekly Challenge not a Daily Challenge. This will help with the days I'm really sick and just cant do as much!

I will Be Posting The Weekly Task list No earlier Than Friday Morning And No Later Than Monday Evening. So the Challenge Task Post will Be Posted Sometime Friday-Monday. (Sorry I can't Give a Exact Day and Time, Like I said My days have been so up and down with being sick that its hard for me to plan on when.)

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What Kind of Task will there Be?

Cleaning Task: A Thing or a Place to clean

Organizing Task: Something to Organizing!

Decluttering Task: Something to Declutter!

Routine: Something to add or change in your Routine!

10 Minute Task: A Place or thing to clean, organize or declutter that should only take you 10 minutes or less.

Baby Task: A Thing to do to get ready for baby! (I forgot to mention this in video)

<<New Challenge Part 1

Challenge Week 1>>

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Are You going to join us?

Have anything you want added to the challenge?

Are you expecting?

New Challenge Part 1

I hope You had a chance to watch the Video "BIG Announcement" If You haven't yet please Click Here to watch it! Then come back here and hear about our New Challenge!

I'm So Excited For This Challenge! I know this is really going to help me get everything done!

Watch the video below to learn about the New challenge and what it is!

Recap:

After 6 1/2 years of Marriage, Now my Husband and I are expecting our First baby! :)

We are so happy, But this was not planned so I have not done anything around my home to be ready for a baby.

I'm 8 weeks and that only gives me maybe 7 months to get everything done and that's if I feel good to do it all because I'm so sick and sleepy all the time.(but hey sick is a good thing in this case)

Once I found out I was Pregnant I went online and looked for book, websites, blogs whatever I could find to get List and Tasks that I need to get done around the home before the baby comes. but once I started looking  there was No one place for everything, one book would be about getting baby's room ready and that's it, or a website would have getting your home clean before baby but didn't have any thing for getting your home safe or having the room ready.

 So after looking at many different things and looking around my home at the things i want to get done before the baby I have made my list of what I need to Get Done. That's where This Challenge Comes In!

In this Challenge I will be getting things ready for the Baby's arrival, Its Not Just for Pregnant Ones. Any One Can Do It! Because we are not just going to be having baby oriented tasks there will be things for cleaning and organizing your home as well. So Join us In this challenge!

This Challenge Is going to be a little Different Than Other Challenges in how its going to be Laid out I explain this all in "New Challenge Part 2".

All Post will be Located Under the Tab "My Pregnancy Journey" Located at the Top Right side of the Blog.

<<Big Announcement

New Challenge Part 2>>

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Will you be Joining The Challenge?

Have anything you need or want me to add in the Challenge?

Are you Pregnant Or a Mom?