Welcome to day six of the Spring Into Summer series! I hope you’ll take a few moments to read the previous posts! Be sure to enter the giveaways for Sugar and Spice and The Trip Clip!Twice a year, in the summer and the winter, my family takes a trip to visit my in-laws, who live 12 hours away. Since we […] Read more…
Organization
The Front Closet and the Master Closet Organized and my Rules for Getting Rid of Clothes
I’ve been participating in Project Simplify at Simple Mom for the past three weeks now to force encourage myself to reorganize and declutter some of the most cluttered spaces in our house. I took some time off from blogging to clean and declutter and I sort-of accomplished my goal. Things never go as smoothly as I […] Read more…
Decluttering the Pantry – Project Simplify Week 2
Last week, I decluttered the kids’ toys. This week I moved on to the pantry. I have to admit, it wasn’t too difficult of a job. I don’t have a ton of food in my pantry right now, so it was mostly just a matter of shifting things around to their proper places and wiping […] Read more…
Decluttering my Kids’ Toys–Yikes! – Project Simply Week 1
This year, I’m linking up with Simple Mom’s Project Simplify and also the Spring Cleaning Challenge over at The Untrained Housewife (I write there too!). For Week 1, we were challenged to declutter kids’ stuff. Since we’ve all been sick for the past two weeks, I just went through the kids’ toys and am leaving their clothes […] Read more…
How to Grocery Shop with Kids (and Not Go Crazy)
We’ve all seen it: the exasperated mother in the checkout line with a shopping cart piled to the brim, trying to calm her crying baby (who’s teething) and hungry preschooler (who’s reaching for candy) while attempting to keep her cool all at the same time. Maybe if you’re like me you’ve been in this situation […] Read more…