a helpful reminder
Having little helpful reminders are good.  Goodness knows with each pregnancy I clearly lost more brain cells than I ever started with, so now I pretty much know nothing, and remember nothing. Case in point, packing for my trip with the girls I made a quick dash out to the car to get something. My running shoes were also outside by the stroller.  I put them on the front doormat...
great pack ‘n go snack!
The day I started shopping at Trader Joe's I think a whole new world opened up to me! (isn't that a line in a movie???) One of my, OK my husband's favorite snacks, (because mine would the chocolate peanut butter cups...just sayin') is the individual packages of almonds. If you can have a snack pack of chips, raisins, and crackers, why not almonds?? The "Just a handful" individual packages are...
tab it baby ~ part 2
A few months ago, I wrote about my new favorite organization tool that let me make up a project binder just the way I wanted it I use this binder every hour of every day! But what makes this binder work is the awesome removable tabs. I am WAY BEYOND IN LOVE with these tabs... My newest way to use them is in my Flat Belly Diet Family Cookbook. Because...
back to basics ~ master closet
A few weeks ago I had one of those moments you see in cartoons where the character yells so loud and so long that the whole world around him FREEZES. You know what I'm talking about. When water shooting out of a fire hydrant freezes in mid shoot... The person jumping is somehow suspended indefinitely in his jump.... The world just stops and stares at the source of the yell...
700 hours in a day? nope, but how about an extra 2??
(In case you can't figure this photo out, this is Hayden playing "peek-a-boo" in my skirt, pretty typical of my day.) When I first started writing this blog, my goal was to share tips and favorites that help our family out.  And that is still my goal. But we've had a lot going on between launching the blog last October and welcoming little Piper's arrival 4 weeks ago...now we are...