A couple of weeks ago after a long day out at our homeschool group, I told the kids we were going to clean after dinner so we wouldn’t have to worry about it over the weekend. I mentally prepared myself for their whining, but when they finished eating they got started right away, motivated by the prospect […]

A couple of years ago we realized that the systems and clutter busters we’d had in place when we had four girls under five years old were no longer working for us! Those girls were bigger, with more opinions, more stuff of their own, and more mess, and things felt very chaotic and disorganized all the […]

A few years ago, when Life Your Way was more of an online magazine covering a broader range of topics, I posted about the tension between form versus function in home design. My husband and I are complete opposites in this area—as an artist, the form or beauty of our home is his highest priority. […]

  Several weeks ago I sent an email asking you what your biggest struggle was right now. While several of you shared your heartfelt stories of divorce and cancer and pain, for many of you the struggles were more in the everyday—getting organized…and staying that way, feeding your family healthy food without slaving away in […]