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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.

This post contains affiliate links. My mom loaned me her laminator once. Needless to say, I did not get enough sleep that night. (I think it’s this one here. And just a warning: laminators are really cheap to buy, but you have to watch for sales on the laminating pouches or you’ll end up spending […]

This post contains affiliate links. 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]