Happy Family: Ways to Make Your Home Peaceful and OrderlyAs a mother of five who works from home, there’s one thing I know for sure: aiming for a flawlessly clean and orderly family life is a recipe for stress and disappointment for everyone in the family. Kids can’t thrive in a sterile, rigid environment—they need the freedom to play…
Healthy Dessert: Flourless Chocolate Cake RecipeTwo words: "cake" and "healthy." Yes, I did just use those words together in the same sentence. It is possible to have your cake and eat it too with this Flourless Chocolate Cake Recipe from The New Sonoma Diet by Dr. Connie Guttersen. This particular diet recommends actually enjoying food,…
Simplify: How To Organize Your Closetmom • home management • lifestyle • hobbies-me time
Get organizing ideas for the clothes in your closet. How is your closet organized? Are your clothes sorted by color or by style or by function? Or are they just strung up willy-nilly in whatever order they came out of the laundry or back from the cleaners? If so,…
Simplicity: How to Keep Your Closet Clean and Organizedmom • home management • parenting • home management
The change of seasons is always a good time to clean out your closet. In a perfect world, you would take a day three or four times a year to try on everything you own and assess what’s working and what’s not. In the real world, though, it’s often…
Healthy Eating: Teaching Kids About Nutrition“Because my mom does not allow me to!” was a comment often made by my sister when she was asked something about why I did not join in her (often) rambunctious friends. As much as I loved my sister, I hated the response. I felt that it made my mom…
Easter: Quick and Easy Decorating IdeasEaster is around the corner. This holiday kind of hopped up on me this year. If it's caught you off guard too and you're hosting dinner, I've got some quick table ideas that will make it look like you've been planning and prepping forever. My last post was also full…
