We’re really moving along in our series (Managing the Day-to-Day) on refining the way you manage your household. And by refining, I mean figuring out a way to manage it at all in the first place. If you haven’t read the previous posts in this series, I’ve linked them all at the bottom. Basically, up to this point we’ve: Gathered…
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When Preschool Teachers Hate You Welcome back to my series (Managing the Day-to-Day) on getting it together and rocking the mom stuff. If you haven’t read Setting Yourself Up For Success (Managing the Day-To-Day Series: Post 2), I suggest going there now. Because unicorns are real. Also When Mental Notes Make You Mental: How to Keep Ideas from Disappearing Into…
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Take a Drink Every Time I Use the Word “Box” In This Post* Boys and girls frolicked across the shiny new box. Under the hinged lid, the assurance of fresh beginnings beckoned. From inside wafted the aroma of freshly shaved pencils, Crayola-scented-wax, and (the always delectable) Elmer’s school paste. This year would be different. This year, I would keep everything…
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What Are Daylights Anyway? And How Do You Tell If They Are Alive or Dead? You can Pinterest the living daylights out of your kitchen cabinets. You can chuck everything you own in a fit of decluttering. Go all out organizing and purging, and you will have a downright beauteous house. For awhile. You might even get a month or…
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My family is so sick and tired of hearing me say the word “snickers.” I’m obsessed with this dessert. I eat it pretty much every night. What can I say? When I like something, I really like it. I found this one during one of my more intense diets (Trim Healthy Mama –an excellent plan, just not for me –…
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