Laundry Tips For A Family Of Five

Laundry Tips

Keeping our laundry under control is huge. There is nothing worse than getting the kids up and ready for school only to find that they don’t have any clean clothes to wear. With three messy boys that equals a huge job. So I thought I would share with you our tips for keeping the laundry [...]

How To Keep Your House In Order

Clean Kitchen

I am one who struggles to keep my house together. I love it when everything has a place and it stays that way but the reality is to keep it looking good it takes planning. I believe that your house should rise up to meet you when you walk through the door, thanks Nate Berkus. [...]

All Natural Odor Eliminator

Natural Oder Eliminators

I spent the week doing some much needed spring cleaning and went crazy on the garage and car. I had some seriously disgusting before shots for you all to ohh and ahh over. But wouldn’t you know I took them with my iPhone and then it died. Sooooo no pictures. Sorry, anyway the car looks [...]

5 Steps To Completely De-Clutter & Clean A Bedroom

Laundry

I had been ignoring the disaster growing in the boy’s rooms. We have been so busy lately with school and work that things have fallen into a mess. So this week I decided it was time to dive in. I refuse to spend all day buried in the closets but I if I am going [...]

Organize Your Email Inbox By Turning Off Your Smart Phone

Empty In- box

Time to come clean folks. What does your email look like? When was the last time you had an empty inbox? I know all to well how quickly it can get out of hand. In an average day I get well over 100 emails. I won’t even tell you how many separate email accounts I [...]

Letting Go Of Supermom

Today Dr. Meredith Hansen a clinical psychologist and relationship expert. Is guest posting today!  Take it away Dr Hansen… It isn’t easy having it all, but as modern women, we tend to think we can and should. Over the past few decades we’ve grown accustomed to an unrealistic image of a ‘supermom’ that often leaves [...]

Gettin’ Organized

Local Meal

So the new year is here, yay! And I have once again found myself completely disorganized. I don’t know about you but I seem to go in waves. For  few months I am totally organized and on it. Then the next few, completely disorganized. Hmmm… I’ll have to figure that out later. For me to [...]

I’m Coming Clean For The Holidays

Today I am writing my 300th post, WOW! I actually can’t believe I have done that. This morning I spent some time going through my old posts just to take a look and I realized something.  My life looks so calm an almost serene in my blog posts. Like I just tada magically reupholstered a [...]

How I Try To Fit It All In: My Schedule

I have wanted to write this post for sometime now but kept thinking to myself that I am probably NOT the person to talk about my schedule. I am the person who is always trying to fit 300 things into one day. Most days it doesn’t work out. As hectic as it is around here [...]

Look Younger Instantly!

This weekend I had the pleasure of spending time with my sister in-law Stephani. Since I don’t usually get to do girly things we kind of went crazy playing with all of my skin care products. I haven’t been able to convince any of my boys to play dress up yet. Anyway I was showing [...]

How To Organize Your Linen Closet

For some reason who ever designed this house thought it would be a good idea to put a closet for hanging clothes on the second floor landing. For me this is the obvious spot for the linen closet and a hanging design just doesn’t work… See what I mean? No good. So I went to [...]

4 Ways To Streamline Your Morning And Make Getting The Kids Out The Door Easier

Getting small children ready in the morning and out the door fed, dressed, and packed is a monumental task. Here are a few tricks I have learned that help the mornings go a bit smoother.  1) Pack the back packs and have them ready by the door the night before.  2) Hunt down all of [...]

How To Use Basic H- Video Post

Hi everyone. I hope you are all having an amazing day. I have had a crazy few weeks to say the least! To keep a long story short I now have a new laptop because one of my sweet boys decided my old one was tired an needed a cup of coffee. Oh, and if [...]

How To Remove Oil Based Stain From Your Hands In Under 3 Minutes

So you all know I am a Shaklee distributor right? Well I did not go into this lightly. I REALLY use their products everyday because they simply work better than anything I have found. Let me show you. I know I am supposed to wear cloves when staining but truth be told, I always forget. [...]

10 Minute Laundry Room Clean Up

I have a confession. Remember last year when I showed you how great my laundry room looked? It was definitely cute. Functional? Not so much. This is what it turned into… Don’t judge me. Turns out storing your liquid detergent in a cute glass jar really just makes a GIANT mess. Awesome.  My wonderful hubby [...]

Weekend Cleaning Project: The Oven

Ok folks, this is probably my least favorite cleaning task in the house. Do you have to ask? It is gross, usually smelly, takes forever and a day to finish, and again requires either turning the oven on the cleaning cycle which makes the entire house smell terribly or using super toxic cleaning products. Which [...]

Weekend Cleaning Project: The Kitchen Sink

Happy weekend everyone! I have recently teamed up with Shaklee Natural Cleaning Products because they are effective and NON-TOXIC. I used to save all of my really tough cleaning jobs for the evening when my kids were in bed so they wouldn’t be exposed to the harmful chemicals. Picture me with the windows open in [...]

Five Steps To A Neater House

I am not going to sit here and pretend like my house is immaculate. It isn’t. But after years of struggling to keep my home neat I have FINALLY figured out a system that works for me. If you focus on five main areas in your home, everything else seems to fall into place. I [...]