Last week was Show Week. My two boys were in a play and I was directing. A busy (somewhat-stressed) mom plus limited time to get dinner on the table makes it hard to resist the allure of a drive thru window . . . but I succeeded! (Monday through Thursday. I had no intention of cooking on the weekend!) Each night, I used my pre-cooked and … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2014
The Gift of Clean? Yes, Please!
This post is sponsored by Scotch-Brite! Mother's Day is coming. Over the years, I've done some Mother's Day training in our home. Since no one who matters will listen to my suggestion that Father's Day should come before Mother's Day (so moms could demonstrate proper celebration procedures), I've had to create a few rules: #1: Presents … [Read more...]
Parting With An Old Friend Who Just Doesn’t Support Me the Way She Used To
Dear Friend, It's not you. It's me. Fine. It IS you. Here's the thing. We've been together for years. They were good years. Really. It's not that I'm ungrateful. But things have changed. I've changed. You've changed. Part of that is just how life goes. Our relationship, naturally, meant stretching and tugging . . . but over time all … [Read more...]
Grandmas and Forgetting and All That
Look what my mother brought my kids for Easter: You see something fun. You see kids running around the yard, joyfully making a colorful mess. I see everything I ever knew about my own mother and her aversion to pointless messes . . . shattered. Shattered like colorful eggshells strewn across the sidewalk. Hmmmph. (I feel the need to … [Read more...]
Cleaning In the Midst of a Mess
If you've read the blog the whole way through, or even if you've just been around a while . . . you have likely noticed a recurring theme. Nony likes projects, but projects give her tunnel vision. Tunnel vision means Nony's house gets messy*. Again. *Messy: Grocery bags on the kitchen floor, TV trays left out until no one can remember the … [Read more...]
028 Garage Sale Pricing & Set Up Tips Podcast
In this podcast, I'm sharing tips for pricing and set up for your garage sale. Posts mentioned within this podcast: Garage Sale Tips (Includes the link to the counterfeit-money-checking-marker) Pricing Set-up See all my garage sale posts here. How to quickly determine "value" on eBay. Connect with me on my social media … [Read more...]