Category: Home + LIfe
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Do You Hate Freezer Meals? Three Reasons to Try Them Anyway
I used to hate make-ahead freezer meals. They never, ever appealed to me. But now? Now I can’t stop talking about how much better they are. We’ve been freezer-cooking for six or seven months now and I can’t say enough good things about it.
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How Meal Planning Helps Anxious Kids
This week I’m writing about simple ways that you can add structure to your homeschooling life. Look. I know that children — my children — thrive on structure, but as a hopelessly disorganized homeschooling mom, I struggle to give my kids that structure that they crave. It doesn’t come naturally to me. If my kids went…
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A Printable that Teaches Kids How to Clean Their Room
My mom loaned me her laminator once. Needless to say, I did not get enough sleep that night. OK, I know what you’re thinking: please tell me this isn’t a post about what you laminated. That’s crazy. In my mind, this could be a whole SERIES about the things that I laminated. In fact, it occurred…
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Your Year-Long Meal Plan
I LOVE meal plans — but I hate writing them up. I usually make them for 4-12 week periods, but this being the year of structure, I made one that would last 365 days. It seems a bit extreme, doesn’t it? The thing is, making a year-long plan didn’t take me all that much longer than…
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DIY Doll Beds with Storage
These DIY doll beds are made from plastic bins, decorated to look like beds but leaving lots of room to store a growing collection of doll clothing. My favourite part? When your child outgrows dolls, you get a new plastic bin for your storage room. I have a child who has trouble falling asleep. She’s…
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Let Go of Perfect
My grandma made me a ceramic music box with Santa Claus on it when I was little. Every year, my mother put it out on the coffee table on December 1 — and not a day sooner. I so clearly remember the ragged cardboard box that we stored it in, and the way that the old shredded newspaper fell…
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My Favourite Decluttering Tips from The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
I reached a point sometime in June where my house suddenly felt clean. Not as clean as my mother-in-law’s house, of course, but clean by our standards. And then it was still clean the next day. And the day after that. On that third day of cleanliness, I panicked and took the kids camping for…
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Why I Wouldn’t Let My Child Do A Ropes Course
Thank you for visiting my blog! If you enjoy it, you might also enjoy Mom vs the Wasps, which is a fun post about facing my fears for the sake of my children. Well, mostly it’s about me running away from wasps. Do ropes courses teach our kids valuable life lessons? I sure hope not,…
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Stop Feeling Like the Family Chauffeur
The year-end dance recital was last Saturday, so like moms everywhere, my week was a blur of rehearsals, sequins, makeup, and hairspray. And that was just me. That’s right, I danced. On stage, in front of hundreds of people, I stumbled across the stage in a sparkly Irish dress that was used in a dance competition some…
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When You Can’t Find Your Child
This post first appeared on the Huffington Post Canada:To Those Judging The Mom Of The 4-Year-Old Boy At The Cincinnati Zoo You will lose track of your kids at some point. Maybe for a moment, maybe for an hour. It does not matter how carefully you watch them. And I think that it’s the worst…