What does lunch look like at your house? In our house, lunch is the only meal we aren't necessarily all sitting down at the table eating the same thing at the same time. We have breakfast together pretty much every morning. We sit down for a family dinner every night. But lunch is kind of sporadic. Sometimes Jesse is working in our extra room. I usually wait to eat my food until after the kids are done, so I know I can sit and eat my meal without interruption. And lately, the grownups and the … [Read more...]
My Home Management Days Of The Week
Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. If you make a purchase through these links, I receive a bit of a commission at no additional charge to you. I've been talking a lot about home management this month, and that's because the routines that I've set in place have helped my life run much more smoothly. One of my favorite parts of that is having things assigned to days of the week. This is something that my friend Stacy teaches in her course (more on that in a … [Read more...]
How Home Management Rhythms Help When Dealing With Anxiety and Depression
Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. If you make a purchase through these links, I receive a commission at no additional charge to you. I've struggled with anxiety for most of my life. For me, it doesn't take the form of panic attacks, so much as just an underlying awareness of all the things that could go wrong. And last month, I officially added a depression diagnosis to that, although I've had a suspicion about it for awhile. Sometimes for me, while dealing … [Read more...]
15 Minute Dinners Roundup
Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. If you make a purchase through these links, I receive a bit of a commission at no additional charge to you. Life is busy. That might be the understatement of the year for some of you, but I know that while I was working at Dunkin', there were definitely days where I had absolutely zero time to get dinner on the table. Between homeschooling and errands and home stuff and reading stories and wiping faces and all the things, … [Read more...]
Calm
Whether or not you're part of the trend, chances are over the past month you've seen people post about their Word of the Year. And while I haven't had a chance to share mine yet, I did choose one. My word this year is calm. This word came to me a day or two after Christmas, when I was in the middle of influenza, which I caught from two of my children. We had relatives visiting, I had finished a busy weekend of work at Dunkin' a few days before, I had barely finished the Christmas … [Read more...]
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