Attempting an alternating week schedule
This is a scheduling/planning post. If scheduling/planning is not your think, feel free to skip this one. So my daughter started boxing last month. This is grea...
This is a scheduling/planning post. If scheduling/planning is not your think, feel free to skip this one. So my daughter started boxing last month. This is grea...
Our Elf came! With her reindeer. The kids were so excited to see Heart and Toots sitting in our tree this morning. Our Elf is a welcome visitor. She is not spyi...
Well I guess it wouldn’t be a proper Thanksgiving if I weren’t crying on my bed, grappling with how to manage everyone else’s emotions when I&...
Our Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays have always only included grandparents, because we live close to grandparents and nobody else. I’ve celebrated Chr...
My daughter was at her grandparents. My son was in the bath. My husband was in a meeting. So I went to the shed to get a box of Christmas decorations and then t...
In Spain, when they have a random day off in the middle of the week, they unofficially take the days off between the official day off the and weekend. They call...
When I first read Marie Kondo’s Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, I didn’t understand her folding technique. It said something about folding shirts...
Almost two weeks ago, right when we got back from Disneyland, our tenant informed us that he had bedbugs. He had one in a bag, to prove it. He had evidently lea...
My kids are getting older, and as they age, our family is developing habits and traditions. We are becoming our own little unit, with our own unique stories, in...
Well, my week break is over. I did a much better job managing expectations this time, but I still feel disappointed by what I accomplished. I realize that I nee...