Like most of my fellow type-A’ers, I have a thing for office supplies, calendars, and planners. There’s nothing quite like turning to a fresh page in your planner or looking back at a page of completed tasks. My problem is that I tend to get “planner blindness” after a certain amount of time, which means that every planner […]

I started blogging about organizing, home management, decluttering and other related topics more than 7 years ago. Back then we had three small children (and then four under five), and I was working full time, but our home ran smoothly, without much clutter. I don’t know exactly what happened—whether it was the addition of two […]

Let’s face it: homemaking is not glamorous. Oh, there are amazing parts—creating a home for your family, opening it to other people, making memories with your kids, and so on. But the everyday, the repetition, the dirt and the laundry and the dishes? Those parts can mire us down in the mundane. While chores and […]