Between work, holiday parties, and managing gift lists for everyone else in your family you might find yourself without a gift list of your own! I know how it feels to be so busy that you don’t even have time to make yourself a gift list. Pretty sure this has happened every year since I became a…
The other day, I asked my kids to unload the dishwasher. They must have been trying to be extra good, because when I came back into the kitchen it was empty. Totally, 100% empty. And there was nothing on the counter. Nothing on the floor. I’d already put away the things that live in a high…
In a busy family, it can be really hard to keep track of what’s happening. Just this week, my husband was traveling for work, my older daughter had soccer and both kids went to Taekwondo. I had a movie night with friends and we had a long weekend trip planned. That’s pretty typical! Things get…
One minute. Sixty seconds. You can do anything for one minute. Right? I initially learned about the value of one minute from a decluttering book. The author’s premise was simple: if the task will take you less than a minute to complete, do it now. Don’t wait, because soon those one minute tasks pile up…
We moved a few months after my first was born. All was well when we were pre-approved for our loan, but when they ran the final credit check TWO DAYS before closing our credit scores had dropped. Turns out we’d forgotten to pay a tiny credit card bill while we were in a new parent…