The last couple of weekends, we have been able to make a few really good pushes forward with decluttering and organizing our home. They were all somewhat small projects, but in the grand scheme of things, they make a huge difference. One of the things I've been...
How many emails do you receive per day on average? 20? 40? 100? 200?? For me, it's not always that simple to count them up because I have so many different email accounts for my various blogs and businesses. I guess that on a usual day I get somewhere between 100 and...
We have had a lot going on here in the last year or so, and I haven't been able to devote all the time I'd like to this project, but we have started decluttering a few spaces around here. There is just so much stuff that we have collected over the last 10 years,...
When you’re a working mom, there can be little time to get all of the daily business around the house done. Here’s my own personal tips about how I keep our home from looking like a bomb just went off.
With the start of the new year, you're probably thinking of a few things you'd like to accomplish in 2012 and new habits you'd like to form. I've heard that creating a new habit takes about 3o days of constantly doing that task before it will stick. But the first 10...
You may not know this because I haven't talked about it much lately, but I am a big fan of aromatherapy and essential oils. I guess you could say that I have a strong belief in many alternative ways of medicine. I've sort of always had an interest in the power of...
This weekend, I tackled the extremely needed and long overdue project of organizing the craziness under our bathroom sink. Usually I buy bath stuff on sale that we always use, so there are always a few of them around. And we have ended up with enough sunscreen over...
"How we live our days , of course, is how we live our lives." -- Annie Dillard Do you ever feel like a hamster on a wheel, trying to get 1,000 tasks done in a day, knowing it's impossible but somehow feeling like it's all important and necessary for your life to keep...
The start of another week and another month. How is it August already?? This year is just flying by at light speed. I recently just finished reading an ebook that has made a huge impact on my life. You know that I don’t often promote products for other people –mostly...
Hi friends! Because we had a pretty mild end to our winter, and there was no freeze to kill off hatching bugs, the creatures are out in full effect. Ticks, mosquitoes and maybe even some fleas are running rampant around here. And I think mom and dad might actually be...
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