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All moms have their challenges.  Stay at home moms, working moms, work at home moms, they all have a tough, yet important job.   One of the jobs that seems to fall on moms’ shoulders, no matter the employment status, is the job of family organizer.  Maybe it is just because of moms’ multitasking nature.  But, [...]

I am not known for leaving things incomplete. When I start something, I usually take pride in finishing and making sure everything is cleaned up.
However, once in a while something comes along that is so big I work on it for awhile, clean it up, and hide it so I don’t have to feel guilty [...]

So. You all ready for the winter holidays? Hanukkah? Christmas? Kwanzaa?
If yes, then feel free to smile happily to your very organized self. If not, then read on.
There are several facets of holiday preparation, including (but not limited to)

Housecleaning/decoration
Gifts
Food
Traditions

If you’re hosting family and friends, having a clean and decorated place [...]

I was visiting my Mom this weekend, and she was cleaning out her basement.  She gave me several boxes of my childhood mementos to take home.  Some of these things, like the stamps made out of old linoleum, and the prints on manilla paper are clearly destined for the trash bin.  But what do I [...]

Every morning that I need to get my daughters out of the house seems to turn into what I call Morning Madness. A friend of mine posts on her blog about this topic all of the time and I always laugh out loud as I can relate. Why is it so difficult to get children [...]

Confession: when I ask my boys to clean their bedroom it usually ends in a huge weeping pile of me. After hours without progress and constantly breaking down tasks and repeat repeat repeating myself I am left wanting never to face this challenge again. So I wait and wait and then rinse and [...]

Summer is in full swing in our neck of the woods.  The weather has been great, not to hot, not too cold.  We have had trips to the beach, a trip to the water park, a trip to a state park for some camping and fishing.  And yet, even with all this wonderful weather going [...]

My stomach turns at the smell of most baby food. Not so much the first stages; bananas and apples are pretty non-offensive. Once they move on to the pureed version of turkey and noodles, though, I can’t quite conceive the yellowish gelled glop as food. Combine the smell of this epicurean treat [...]

There have been many “discussions” in my house about my need to do it all. I can’t, nor do I really, do everything. But, sometimes it feels as if my main job is keeping track of each family members’ “stuff.” There is physical stuff: backpacks, baseball gloves, school supplies, keys, the [...]

Our house is generally clean and neat, but I know it’s in need of certain attentions: Hand-me-downs lurk in a closet, waiting to be sorted and tried on. The kitchen longs for reorganization. The playroom toys pine to be sorted through and rotated. The checkbook screams to be balanced; the computers groan for an operating [...]