Meal planning, grocery shopping and cooking are three of my least favorite activities to partake in. Having a personal chef is a life long dream for me. Since I don’t see that happening any time soon and my current job position of “CEO of our home”, aka stay at home mom, holds the sole responsibility […]
Category: Simplify
3 Steps to Declutter Kids Toys
When these declarations are made in our home, “I’m bored.” “That’s mine! Don’t touch it.” “There’s nothing to do.” I can’t clean up, I don’t know where it goes.”, and toys begin to take longer than 10 minutes to put away, I know it’s time to declutter the kid’s toys. In this blog post, I […]
A New Normal
Our family of four is currently home most of the time now, Monday through Friday. Besides an occasional errand or random appointment, none of us leave the house much on weekdays. Our house is no longer serving as just a place to live. These four walls that surround us are serving many new purposes. We […]
My laundry system
I’ve known for sometime the laundry situation in our home was a bit out of control. I can’t even blame it on having kids. Even in my pre baby days the laundry was chaos. Often my strategy to put the clothing away was to dump it in the master bedroom closet on the floor. I’d […]
One dish at a time
There’s a popular hashtag on Instagram, #cleankitchenatnight. It’s consists of beautiful images of sparkling clean kitchens at the end of the day. The desire is to encourage others to take the time to tidy at night in order to start the morning fresh. These pictures are lovely and although I try and make this my […]
Top Ten Played with Toys in our Home
As Christmas fast approaches I’ll take some time to stop and evaluate the toy situation in our home. This involves a quick scan of the toys my kids currently own, sorting through the ones that are no longer played with or no longer functioning. Then I’ll do some donating or discarding. If there is an […]
Decluttering my kids toys
“Time not toys” Over the past four years I have discovered that my kids hands down prefer time spent with them over any new toy. The most exciting toy holds nothing to a few minutes of undivided attention. I have read and listened to multiple books and podcasts on this subject that have encouraged me […]
Holiday Tradition Ideas
“Traditions should not detract from the season, they should elevate it.” ~Joshua Becker We love the Christmas season and our family traditions that go along with it. Traditions are important for kids. I recently read a great Tinkergarten blog post that so eloquently explained why. Traditions have the ability to connect us, give us a sense […]
Go off season
My husband strongly dislikes crowds. He dislikes heat. He dislikes long periods of time in the sun. He does however share my love of the ocean. How does this possibly work, you might ask? We go off-season. For us as a family (I’ll take the kids by myself or with friends the majority of the […]
My Baby Essentials
Upon becoming pregnant with our first child my mind started to come up with lists of what I was going to need to take care of our baby. I began to agonize over what to put on our baby registry. I researched products. I talked to people about what they liked. I spent hours on […]