An Easy Way to Manage Chaos While Cooking
Posted in Your Home on 14. Oct, 2009
Cleaning as you go is a cooking fundamental that can save lots of time in after-meal cleanup.
The Importance of Menu Planning
Posted in Your Home, Your Money on 13. Oct, 2009
Do you plan your meals, or do you just throw them together? I don’t know how I managed before I started menu planning, but I’m certain that I spent more money at the grocery store. Since I’ve started menu planning, I’m finding it’s making a huge difference in many areas. Not only am I less stressed and more organized, but I am finding that my grocery shopping is much more efficient.
Stay Organized – Keep Phone Numbers and Birthdays Accessible
Posted in Your Home on 09. Oct, 2009
Are you always forgetting birthdays, or digging through papers to find important phone numbers?
Mother’s Helpers – Something to Consider?
Posted in Take a Deep Breath on 08. Oct, 2009
Have you ever considered hiring a “mother’s helper?”
If you have not heard of this sort of help before, I’ll fill you in. A mother’s helper is usually a pre-teen girl who comes over to your house to help out with the kids. She can be an extra set of eyes, ears, and hands [...]
Save Time When You are Cleaning
Posted in Your Home on 07. Oct, 2009
It drives me nuts when I realize that I’ve forgotten to rinse out the dishes from the kids’ oatmeal. I know that if I had taken just a few seconds to let them soak, I could easily rinse them off and put them in the dishwasher. Instead, I spend extra time scrubbing them [...]
Save Time in the Morning – Label Clothes
Posted in Your Home on 04. Oct, 2009
Getting ready in the morning can be pretty time consuming, and I’m always brainstorming ways to cut corners and make things easier. One thing in particular that I run into are arguments regarding clothes. Even though my two daughters are young, they still have strong preferences about what to wear each day. [...]
Do You Need Something to Go on That Wall?
Posted in Your Home, Your Money on 27. Sep, 2009
Not too long ago, I redecorated my daughters’ room. The biggest change was painting their room, but other than that I didn’t do much new. I rearranged the furniture, swapped out my younger daughter’s crib for a toddler bed, and bought a balloon shade. Still, it seems like I could do so [...]
Organizing Your Closet for Fall
Posted in Your Home on 20. Sep, 2009
I don’t know about you, but I’m getting to the point where I open up my closet and realize that I need to be reaching for a long-sleeved shirt, rather than the t-shirts hanging there. However, all of my summer stuff is still out, and soon I’ll need to switch it over for my [...]
Less Really Is More
Posted in Your Home on 17. Sep, 2009
We’ve all heard of “spring cleaning,” but I haven’t really given much thought to “fall cleaning.” It makes sense, though. After a summer of fun, there is plenty of stuff around here I could toss – grass stained kids’ clothes, that old baby pool that is too dirty to save, and of course [...]
Your House Doesn’t Need To Be That Clean
Posted in Take a Deep Breath on 13. Sep, 2009
I think most of us are torn between the image we have in our heads of how clean we think our house should be, and how clean it actually is. When I only had one child, it was much easier to keep my house clean and organized, and it didn’t seem like much of [...]
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