Always evolving, Never Average
Last week my parents came up to the house and helped me clean up my disaster of a house on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. My dining room in particular remains a challenge for me to keep neat and uncluttered. My dining room table always ends up as the dumping ground for laundry and inevitably, a …Read More
About a month ago I came across a blog post entitled “Decluttering Burst: let go of 100 things in less than an hour” on the website Be More With Less, and I decided I was going to start with my clothes. And that led to the decision to try to do a one-hour, 100-item decluttering burst …Read More
Today was day sixteen of summer vacation. It was the first really rainy day since the kids have been out of school, and after two weeks of sun and outdoor swim practices and a few late nights and a nine-hour-long 4th of July party the other day, we were all in need of a lazy, …Read More
You know how a kid can totally suck at baseball and make like ten errors in one game and start to feel completely hopeless and dejected, but then out of nowhere he can make an amazing catch that no one ever thought was possible? And even with all those errors in one game, that one awesome …Read More
Yesterday I wrote this post about one of the things I’ve done that has really helped my children to be more responsible. And I received this comment: I so struggle with this. With only 2 kids and a very part time baking business out of my home, I waffle between getting my kids to do …Read More
People very often say to me, “I don’t know how you do it with so many kids at home.” Sometimes I don’t know how I do it either. It’s often a shakedown cruise here at my house. But sometimes, we are a (sort of) well-oiled machine. And it’s for one reason: our kids have responsibilities …Read More
A couple days ago a friend of mine posted a picture of a pumpkin her daughter made. I had never seen anything like it before, but I thought it was so cute. I Googled how to do this, and all you needed was some crayons, a little glue, a pumpkin and a hair dryer. I …Read More
For the first time in my life, I made my own pasta sauce tonight. I have no idea why I waited so long. It was so easy. And it’s definitely much more delicious than any of the jarred sauce I’ve been getting. Plus, it’s way cheaper. Before I got started, I put a call out on the …Read More
School starts in a little more than ten days. Every September I do the same thing. I vow to start the school year off differently. And then I disappoint myself by not following through. This year will be different. This year I will not disappoint myself. Because this year I will be realistic. Here is …Read More
I really enjoy cooking. And if you’ve been here a while, you know I like the Food Network. A lot. And you probably know that Trisha Yearwood and her cooking show annoy the crap out of me. But she always talks about her mom. And she makes a lot of “Mama’s” recipes. Mama’s roast beef with …Read More
