My oldest daughter has always been really good about knowing exactly what she wanted to spend her time doing. When she was 4 she wanted to learn to crochet. So we asked a friend who knew how to crochet if she would teach her. She brought over a bag of yarn and crochet...
Have you ever tried to create a morning or evening routine but found it difficult to stick with? I think we all have😅! There are a few reasons for this: one is that we don't have our day set up correctly (see How to Easily Manage Your Home Part 1 and Part 2), another...
One of my fondest memories of my childhood is when we took a cross-country road trip when I was fourteen. We took a whole month and explored Civil War Battlefields, Washington DC, New York, and everywhere in between. We started our trip in Oregon and drove all the way...
Now I know routines and schedules can be a little.... well... controversial. A lot of people think that you are either such a schedule fanatic that you are a slave to your schedule, or you have no routine at all and you basically let your kids decide what happens at...
When the new year is upon us, most people start thinking about their New Year's Resolution for the coming year. And I used to do the exact same thing. Every December I would come up with a long list of all the things that I was going to do in the coming year to make...
We've all heard the horror stories from family and friends about transitioning their toddlers from the crib to the big kid bed. The kids get out of bed about a thousand times now that there is nothing keeping them in bed. They need a drink, they want a snack, they...
You know what they say: Christmas is a time for giving! But unfortunately in western society, Christmas is also a time for over-spending, extravagance, and going into (more?) debt. It has become so ingrained in us that we need to buy everyone everything that their...
When our girls were little we decided we wanted to intentionally teach them to listen to us when we talked to them. The biggest reason that we wanted them to learn to listen was safety. Parents can often see things that children can't such as a car coming down the...
A lot of people don't think that the words "Minimalism" and "Kids" can belong in the same sentence. I mean, kids are supposed to add a lot of expense, stress, and... well...stuff to your life! And even if you were able to declutter all of your things while having kids...
Bedtime is often a fight and and a frustrating experience for everyone involved. Parents are trying to get everyone settled. Kids are trying to delay the inevitable. Is there any way to make bedtime easier? Creating a bedtime routine can help everyone through the...
Thing have been crazy recently, haven't they?! In the last couple weeks we went from knowing that there was some virus going on in China... to having it here, closing all recreational public gathering places, wondering where our next role of toilet paper was coming...
My oldest daughter and I had a nice little rhythm in our life that worked really well for us. When my second daughter was about to be born, I figured this new addition was going to shake things up a little bit. Everyone told me that having a toddler and a...