It’s SUMMER!!! I love this fun and crazy and unscheduled time of year with my kids, but the lack of routine sends my house into chaos! For the summer, I’m focusing on the four simple habits that will keep (or bring) any home out of Disaster Status. Here’s how we did: Do the dishes Sweep the kitchen Check bathrooms for clutter Do …
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Surviving Summer Basic Checklist 6/2
It’s SUMMER!!! I love this fun and crazy and unscheduled time of year with my kids, but the lack of routine sends my house into chaos! For the summer, I’m focusing on the four simple habits that will keep (or bring) any home out of Disaster Status. This past weekend was fun. Busy, but fun. It finally felt like summer since our local pool …
Summer Checklist 5/29
It’s SUMMER!!! I love this fun and crazy and unscheduled time of year with my kids, but the lack of routine sends my house into chaos! For the summer, I’m focusing on the four simple habits that will keep (or bring) any home out of Disaster Status. Technically, summer hasn't started yet for us. With the craziness of the end of school, …
Surviving Summer Free Printable Ultra-Basic Daily Checklist (And Fun!)
It's almost summer!!! Wahoooooo!!! (For some of you, it already is!) If you've been around here for previous summers, you know it's my favorite time of year. I might want to improve my housekeeping skills and make my home more welcoming and blah blah blah and yadda yadda yadda . . . but I lo-ooo-ove basking in the crazy lack-of-a-routine we …
Random Summer Update #3 (And a Special Swagbucks Sign-Up Code)
I didn't post a summer update last week. Last week was crazy. VBS happened. VBS stands for Vacation Bible School and it's my kids' favorite week of the year. But my house doesn't stand a chance in that week. I declared today House Cleaning Day. There were no cheers of excitement, but I didn't care. It was bad. Real bad. So bad …
Random Summer Update #2
Another week of summer down, and this one was crazy. I did laundry, ran the dishwasher at least once, and went to a movie at the 50 cent theater where something with six legs ran over my flip-flopped feet. Yes. For real. And yes, I did say I ran the dishwasher once. But in my defense, I left town on Wednesday morning for the Savvy …
Random Summer Update #1 (2013)
It's possible you've noticed that I only posted twice this week. And the posts were a link post and a guest post. I haven't quit blogging. But I am consciously taking a step back for summer. I say "consciously" because it's actually an effort for me to NOT blog. My mind thinks in blog posts and I generally create cutesy titles for …
Three Fun Summer Activities for Kids
It's summer!!!! We are so excited! Around here, we're making lots of plans for summer fun, so I thought I'd share some posts from years past: How to Host a Water Balloon Fight Our Made-Up Water Baseball Game Apple-Juice Popsicles Kids Can Make Save …
Experiencing End-of-Summer Panic
It hit me last Friday that I had exactly one month until my youngest child started kindergarten. As in . . . one month until things change. Big time. I'll no longer be a mother of a pre-schooler and the nine-and-a-half-year period of my life that has included a little one by my side at all times . . . will be over. Handling it well? Not …
