Bring Back Sanity and Structure To Your Family's Morning Routine I don't know about you, but our morning routine lately has been a total gong show. My kids have always been early risers (why Lord, why!?) and they don't start school until 9:15 and 9:30 respectively. This means that I've basically lived an entire day by the time they go to school in the morning. And I am NOT a morning person. Nope, no talkie until coffee. Something has needed to change in our home for awhile around ...
12 Monthly Table Topics to Teach Your Kids Virtues & Values
3 Tips To Spend Less & Relax More This Holiday Season
Target and Hobby Lobby's halls have been decked for months by now. The catalogs are flooding your mailbox. Your email inbox notification goes off morning and night with notices of more sales and all the things "you must have". Consumer culture is a REAL THING. These giant companies (that we love!) spend, and are paid, BAJILLIONS of dollars to make you spend more and to convince you that you definitely do need that furry table runner in white this year because red is so last year. I get it, ...
3 Reasons Channeling the Nineties Lifestyle Will Help You Solve Today’s Problems: Bring Back Land Lines
As a borderline Millennial (some social scientists categorize me as a Xennial technically), I spent some good quality formative years in the nineties. Saved by the Bell, scrunchies, Caboodles, 90210 - these were all STAPLES of my childhood and adolescence. And if you've walked any of the aisles of Target, or truly most stores lately, you'll have noticed that little things like scrunchies and Caboodles have made a comeback. I mean, I'm pretty sure I saw the EXACT corduroy overall skirt that my ...
5 Must-Haves For Your Fall Closet Under $100
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Things No One Told Me Before Having Kids: Sleep Deprivation Doesn’t Ended After the Little Years
Sleep deprivation is torture. Literally, it's an actual torture tactic (or so I've heard in my true crime podcast binges). And when you begin cranking out children, those newborn days quickly merge into one big blur of an existence because of sleep deprivation. Buried deep in diapers, feeding, crying, rocking, middle of the night life is rough. I remember thinking (illogically) in those days that life would just be so much easier once I could get some sleep. "As soon as she sleeps through ...
Sleep deprivation doesn't end after the baby years. Motherhood is hard in each season. Read why it's important, and HOW, to not wish away today.
How To Throw A Favorite Things Party
For anyone that follows me on Instagram, you'll have seen the pictures floating around that I was invited to my first ever Favorite Things Party, hosted by the ever-talented Allison of Allison Carter Celebrates. Throw Pillows by Linen & Ivory If you'll remember, she also graciously had me on as a guest for her podcast earlier this summer where I got to share all about Not Becoming A Summer Cruise Director for your kids, and family. I can confidently say, 4 billion weeks into ...
