Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. If you make a purchase through these links, I get a bit of a commission at no additional charge to you. No matter what you do with the rest of the time in your day, your family will want to eat food at some point. Multiple points. Sometimes never-ending points. And they will ask you what’s for dinner. Or what’s for snack. Or what else they can have. All those little questions about food can slowly drive you crazy. I know, … [Read more...]
5 Ways to Use the Notes Page in Your Planner
If you're a planner person, chances are you've already broken into your new planner, ready to tackle a year that will hopefully have lots of fun things in it. And you've probably already started filling out appointments and work schedules and your daily to do list. But what about those "notes" pages at the back of the planner? What do you do with those? Here are five ways I use those notes pages to keep my life more organized. Track family health visits. In our family, I am in charge … [Read more...]
Easy 25 Days of Christmas Ideas
December is already full of stuff, so it can be easy to cringe when you see a list of 25 things to do, one for each day leading up to Christmas. But I promise this is not that list! These are super easy, mostly no prep things to do in December. Things like watching movies and making treats you were going to make anyways. But somehow, having a special "thing" each day brings my kids joy, and maybe it will for your family too. I don't want my December to be full of things that I'm doing just … [Read more...]
3 Reasons I Meal Plan
How do you spend your Saturday afternoon? Reading a book? Catching up on housework? Hanging out with your family? For me, all of those are a possibility, but the one thing I never skip? Meal planning. It's not the most exciting way to spend my day, and there are plenty of other things that I find more fun. But I know that the time I spend planning our food is worth it. I want to feed my family mostly homemade, mostly unprocessed food. And it has to taste good, … [Read more...]
Books I’ve Read: January 2017 (And My New Tracking System)
It was a spiral-bound notebook with light blue pages, with Winnie the Pooh and Tigger on the front. I must have been in about fourth grade or so when I started writing down the books that I read. Though I didn't understand it at the time, I was very much an introvert, and I was perfectly content to spend the majority of my free time reading books, even as the rest of my peers were playing sports or participating in extra activities. Books were my happy place. And I would dedicate a page to … [Read more...]
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