Yesterday morning, Operation Positive Discipline officially took effect. If you read Saturday’s post, you know that one of the biggest challenges I’m facing is the kids arguing multiple times a day. And I’ve been constantly refereeing and consequently wanting to gouge my eyeballs out with a tiny replica of the Empire State Building. Yesterday morning […]
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Cute Dresser Transformation For Less Than $20
I love the look of Pottery Barn Kids’ Furniture, but my bank account doesn’t. Plus, if there’s anything I’ve learned since being a parent, it’s that new furniture will look new for approximately 30 minutes. Luckily I happen to be a magnet for free furniture. So when I saw this dresser on the side of […]
4 hours + A Professional Organizer = HOLY SHIT!
Last Thursday Sue Duval, owner of the Organized Hive, came to my house to help me get my office situation figured out. We got about half of the floor and surface areas decluttered and organized. Today we tackled the other side of the office. It started out looking like this: Behind all that crap on […]
The Last Time
I’ve had a lot of last times already. The last time I heard that newborn baby cry, you know the one you hear in the grocery store and say to yourself, that must be a brand new baby, was forever ago. The last time I nursed a baby seems like another lifetime. The last time I […]
Time for a new approach.
I’ve been doing a lot of reading on gentle parenting. Yeah, I know. Those two words might be making you roll your eyes. They sound so… I don’t know what the word is… self righteous? Holier than thou? Sanctimonious? Annoying? But I need to start doing something differently. You know I stopped yelling at the […]
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I’m running the Boston Marathon two weeks from today. Fourteen days. I started training fourteen weeks ago. Of course back then I didn’t plan on getting a letter from a lawyer telling me our house was going into foreclosure about ten weeks into it. I had big plans before that letter. This will be my […]
