A few years ago I was certainly not a mom wh0 thought I could ever minimize kid’s clothes. One of the things I loved most about having little girls was dressing them up in cute little outfits. Ruffles, bows, sparkles. I shopped for them a lot and not just in one place. I checked out box stores, boutique stores, small shops, resale shops, online resale shops, anywhere that might have something cute to add to my children’s wardrobe. The other women in my family also have the same sort of problem. We are all a sucker for a good...
September 28, 2019
Surprising Reasons to Minimize your Kids Clothing
A few years ago I was certainly not a mom wh0 thought I could ever minimize kid’s clothes. One of the things I loved most about having little girls was dressing them up in cute little outfits. Ruffles, bows, sparkles. I shopped for them a lot and not just in one place. I checked out box stores, boutique stores, small shops, resale shops, online resale shops, anywhere that might have something cute to add to my children’s wardrobe. The other women in my family also have the same sort of problem. We are all a sucker for a good...
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Having a clean and organized home greatly reduces the level of anxiety that you carry around. Having kids really throws a wrench into the terms of “clean and organized” doesn’t it? Its like they have all this stuff and we have to find places to keep it all! WRONG Your kids don’t need to have all the stuff. In fact, clutter makes your kids feel anxious too! If you are feeling overwhelmed with kids stuff I recommend you start with a little decluttering before you hop right into organizing. I’ve provided a free toy decluttering checklist at the bottom...
Pinterest is flooded with images of super mom car organization with kids. Shoe organizers in the trunk stuffed full of every possible thing that you might ever need for any child type “emergency”. These moms should have a TV show, like Extreme Mom Preppers or something. I’m certainly not knocking being prepared for anything and everything, I mean I basically preach that on this blog. Being prepared totally helps keep that anxiety in check. Here is the thing though. Some of this stuff should NOT be kept in your car! Some products will spoil or become ineffective when exposed...
What to Pack in a Kids Summer Pool Bag Living in the sunshine state I stay prepared for pool and beach weather year round. You never know when a water opportunity might present itself. Don’t be that mom who has to say no because you weren’t prepared! Keep a water bag in your car all summer, or year round if you are lucky like us! I have been caught unprepared a few too many times for me to not know the importance of having a water bag packed. Once we were on the way home from my big girls...
March 1, 2018
How To Use A Planner to Conquer Your Anxiety
Do you have days where its all you can do to just make it to bedtime? Days where the anxiety never lets up and you feel like all you do is wallow in the “what if’s?” As you are finally closing your eyes at night you regret that you let anxiety steal yet another day from you? Do you constantly question how to deal with anxiety? It doesn’t have to be like this. After years of fighting with my anxiety, I have found something that actually works! It is no secret that I have anxiety. I’ve always had it....
September 28, 2017
The Ultimate Guide to Organizing and Decorating a Tiny Home
Do you need help with your temporary home décor? Or maybe you are living in an extremely tiny space? I recently wrote about leaving my home to prepare for Hurricane Irma. I described that it felt so amazing to leave my home and all of my possessions behind and be at peace with whatever happened. Well… whatever happened! The short version of why we are in a temporary home Irma dropped a 100-foot oak tree on half of our home. It is currently unlivable and honestly, we aren’t sure when we will be able to go back. We’ve gathered...
September 20, 2017
How to Let Go Of Your Possessions and Find Real Happiness
Possessions define who we are in society. What we drive, where we live, what we wear, what our kids wear. We always want more. Upgrades, new styles, highest tech. We plug ourselves into the rest of the world and unplug from our physical lives. We are filled to bursting with the need and desire for better and more. A Discovery I used to have a 5-year plan and a 10-year plan. Various hurdles appeared as they tend to do and upset my plans. Fertility troubles pushed my plans to start a family for three years, the loss of my...
Use a cleaning schedule It does not need to take you more than an hour per day to clean your home. You can totally have a clean home in an hour per day. If you have a cleaning schedule you always know what needs to be done, you can put all your to-do items on a rotating schedule and you can spend all that extra time with your kids. Stay-at-home moms are still in charge of homemaking. Homemaking is such a dirty word these days. It somehow makes most women feel inferior, like taking care of household chores is not a...
We are a family of lost items My bother is always loosing his car keys. A few years ago he was living about an hour and a half from me. He and a friend came to visit and after they left he made it all the way back to his home before he realized he didn’t have his keys. His friend had to do another 3 hour round trip to get my brothers keys. I am not just giving him a hard time. This happens constantly. It happens with other items besides his keys too. His wallet gets left...
