It’s the second week of the year; are you still sticking to your resolutions? For years New Year’s resolutions were just a source of frustration and disappoint for me. I know that I wasn’t alone in this feeling. There are too many articles, blogs, youtube videos, and TedTalks about how you can make changes to […]
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2020 was certainly an interesting year. A year for lots of introspection and change. A year for new beginnings. Here’s my new beginning.
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Kids want to do things themselves. We as parents want kids to be more self-sufficient and to not feel so tied to our kitchen. The creation of snack bins is a no-brainer!
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For living a digital world, we have SO MUCH PAPER enter house every day. Our daily mail includes bills that we can’t seem to move to online form, ad fliers we don’t care about, cards for every holiday relatives can think of, and magazines gifted to our boys. Then between the three kid’s backpacks, we
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Is your To Do list overwhelming? Does it seem like there aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything done, let alone have time for you and your family? Do I sound like a bad infomercial? The answer is yes, yes I do. But I had a bit of trouble figuring out how to
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It’s the most under-represented room in friendly discussions. Really, no one talks about their bathrooms. They should. The bathroom is a place of so much much excess and wasted time. Americans spend an average of 3 hours a week in the bathroom. That’s a lot of minutes that could be used doing more fun things.
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There are few things that give me more motivation than crossing tasks off of my daily to-do list. I love seeing the list get shorter and my accomplishments stack up. I have been making daily to-do lists since college and credit the practice for my ability to get so much done. My husband was list
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Minimalism has been a popular topic for several years now, and for good reason. Reducing the clutter in our lives allows for more of what matters; time with our families doing what makes us happy. I follow several wonderful minimalism bloggers, and spent years trying to apply the principles to our life. I removed around
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No one has said “Let’s make my day harder”, or “How can I complicate this”. We all want things to be easier, smoother, faster. The problem comes in because we usually don’t know how to start, nor do we have the time to figure it out. Frankly, working parents struggle with finding time to sit
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“If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. ” I love this quote by Maya Angelou because it really sums up the thinking behind value stream mapping. How can you get better if you don’t know what’s you status now? Really, how can you know you’re saving time? In
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