When you have a big family, inevitably one of the first comments people always make is about laundry. How many loads of laundry do you do every week??? We definitely have a lot of laundry. It used to be impossible for me to keep up with it, and my dining room table almost always looked like […]
Timesavers
If you still need to get someone “something to read” for Christmas, save yourself some money and read this!
From now through December 12, Amazon is offering a $5 off deal on any print book purchase of $15 or more (not Kindle books). If you are doing the something you want, something you need, something to wear and something to read, four gift rule for Christmas like me this year and are still in need […]
More Lessons From Marie
I never used to carry a purse. When I was young and single and way too cool and before cell phones were even a thing, I’d carry my money, ID, keys, and some lipstick in my pocket. Purses were for older women. You know… Moms. Then I had kids and I still didn’t carry a […]
Monday morning didn’t totally suck, and this is totally why.
Knowing that this week was going to be a little crazier than normal with my husband home recovering from surgery and not able to really help out at all, I spent yesterday getting shit organized. I still have a ways to go. I don’t have everything all nailed down. But since a meal train has […]
How I Keep On Top Of The Kids’ School Papers
With one kid in preschool, one in kindergarten, one in first grade, one in fourth, one in fifth, and one in eleventh, the amount of papers coming home each day from school is a little bit crazy. I have sucked in paper organization department every single school year since becoming a parent. But this year, […]
The afternoons just got a whole lot easier.
The next item of business in my quest to cut down on before and after school chaos is for the kids to become a well oiled machine and function on autopilot when they walk in the door from the bus. I was thinking back to my teaching days. You spend the first couple weeks nailing […]