Several months ago, I shared that our house had been feeling out of control and chaotic. It wasn't any one thing but that the things that had worked when we had a bunch of tinies just weren't working anymore. Over the summer, we've been really focused on a few things: 1) finishing house projects (more on this…
I've been sharing my love of tea this year -- both for the caffeine as a busy, nursing mom and for the pleasure of snuggling up with a warm cuppa in a variety of flavors -- and several of you have asked how I organize my teas, so I thought I'd give you a peek…
I haven't talked about it too much here on the blog because I want to guard it as something I do for my girls and not as blog fodder, but one of my goals for 2014 is to celebrate the small holidays that I usually overlook. You see, I realized on New Year's Eve --…
The following post is from Jason & Jennifer Bruce of New Season Design: Our daughter outgrows clothes so quickly. It seems that each season we try on last year's size only to find that half of them don't fit any more. While I'm thankful that she's healthy and growing, I'm ending up with lots of…
The following guest post is from Kristin Sterk of Organizing Life with Less: Every night, do you battle the question with your kids: "Have you finished this?" knowing full well, they have not accomplished everything they have to before bedtime? Helping kids organize their time and teaching time management skills at a young age can…
We are all about the Legos these days, to the point that I think I could get rid of every other toy in our house and no one would notice! Between our fall birthdays and Christmas we may just have every Lego Friends set except Olivia's House, plus two big boxes of bricks. Which means…
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Zubie for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. When Sean and I first got married, we had horrible car buying habits. Between leases and cars that cost entirely too much for our budget, we spent too much money and were always looking for the…
The following guest post is from Anne Simpson of Authentic Simplicity: Creative (and Inexpensive) Storage Solutions Earlier this year, my husband and I moved into an apartment that was almost twice the size of our previous apartment. While we loved the spacious rooms in our new dwelling, we were more than a little stumped by…
The following guest post is from Kristin of Organizing Life with Less: Editor's note: Organizing can be overwhelming, especially if you're not sure where to start. Kristin lays out a simple 7-step process that you can use to organize any area in your home. In order to organize any area, you need to first go…
After several failed attempts at making regular trips to the library, we decided to make it part of a "weekly" Daddy date to the library (and out for an ice cream cone) for one of the girls at a time. Unfortunately, we still don't manage to pull it off every week, but we're still getting…