Commitment to Loveliness!

I'm participating in the Commitment to Loveliness. According to Emma at Charming the Birds from the Trees, "This is a fun way to increase femininity and beauty in our lives each week without even trying! All you have to do is choose five things that you would like to work on or do during the week that will increase the loveliness in your life!"

Here is my list for this week:

1. Make and take a meal to a family in need.
2. Bake the cherry sour cream coffee cake from this month's Cooking Light and share it with neighbors.
3. Pray the Our Father, Glory Be and Hail Mary with my oldest every day.
4. Catch up on laundry.
5. Go to the gym four times and take one class I've never done before.

That's it! Click here to read about others' commitments!

How to Make Vacuuming Smell Good

1. Spill a bunch of your favorite aromatic spice (curry powder, for instance).
2. Vacuum it up with your bagless vacuum; empty the canister.
3. For weeks afterward, whenever air passes through the filter, it will be scented with above-mentioned aromatic spice. Instant cravings, whenever you vacuum!

Ask me how I know all this ... later, though, I need to go find some curry now.