Finding Grace-Filled Confidence in the Chaos
I don’t know about you, but I always approach the summer months with excitement mixed with some nervousness. I alternate between both loving and fearing the freedom and lack of routine in our home (since the kids are out of school!) Honestly, there are moments where I’m not sure my patience will survive an unstructured summer of being […] Read more…
How I Finally Organized My Life so I Could Enjoy my Family In one of the previous posts in this series, I shared a little bit about how I’m decluttering our house. I got tired of stepping on and over things that we really didn’t need and weren’t bringing any value to our lives and so […] Read more…
This post was first published March 30, 2012. So here we are at the end of Project Simplify. This is the first year I’ve done it and boy, was it fun! (I’m being serious, in case you’re wondering.) There’s nothing like a deadline and some imagined online pressure to purge stuff and post photos of […] Read more…
This post is part of the ongoing Hope for Moms series! To read all the posts in this series, click here! Are you the type of person who actually follows through with all their New Year’s resolutions? If so, then you probably aren’t reading this post ;) More often than not, I fall into the category of […] Read more…
Welcome to 31 Days of Hope for Moms! To see all the posts in the series, click here! I’m writing to you today, a day later than this post should be, from my ancient desktop in our basement. My daughter accidentally spilled a cup of water on my laptop and it no longer works, which set […] Read more…
Welcome to 31 Days of Hope for Moms! To see all the posts in the series, click here! This is what my kitchen looks like on a daily basis. That’s not so bad, you say. But let me tell you what our house is really like more often than I’d care to admit. This is a plaque that hung […] Read more…
How to sort laundry free printable, in two versions! If you want to be more specific about how you sort your laundry for the washing machine, as well as teach your kids how to do the laundry, check out the guidance below! In the past year, since adding baby number four, the amount of laundry […] Read more…
Anyone whose children LOVE doing chores, raise your hand high!! Not all at once please. ;) Perhaps you have children like mine, who started out as toddlers very excited about helping mom with household chores or dad with outdoor tasks but have somehow morphed into a slumped-shouldered, sighing, elementary-aged individual who believes chores are for […] Read more…
Something that every family has in common is laundry! No matter how big or how small your family is, laundry is something you have to tackle and stay on top of. Over the years with our growing family our laundry routine has evolved and changed. When you have very little ones it’s pretty much a task […] Read more…
Guest Post by Meredith Feld While many of us know which corner of our homes to search for when requiring a spool and thread, a lot of us have to scour our memories and shelves when it comes to actually organizing our sewing equipment. Uncovering these supplies within your own house shouldn’t be like “finding needle in […] Read more…
The dishes sat dirty for yet another day. My socks made a slurp-pop sound as I walked across the sticky dining room floor. The house smelled faintly of dirty diapers and a garbage that needed to be taken out hours ago. So is life with a newborn baby and three other children to care for! […] Read more…
So, back in May I started a “three month” experiment to find out how many clothes my kids really need. The reason I have “three months” in quotations is because this experiment has gone on much longer than I originally planned! Let’s just pretend this is the “month 3 update”, instead of month 4 1/2, […] Read more…
About two months ago, I made a really big claim: I was going to pare down and minimize our children’s clothes so we didn’t buy SO many things like we had in the past. After my surprisingly popular post in which I mused about how many clothes kids really need, I thought I’d give you […] Read more…
I used to think my children didn’t have a lot of clothes. Based on the amount of clothing I saw displayed at garage sales, my kids really didn’t have much in comparison, I reasoned. But when we started to be able to go 2 full weeks without washing anything (except socks and underwear), I began […] Read more…
One of the things I’ve been looking forward to doing for a very long time is reorganizing our entryway closet. For about 2 months I’ve been planning, shopping, emailing organizational bloggers for their help and planning some more! We’ve finally rescued our entryway closet from its former self {see below} and the result is a […] Read more…