A few years ago I talked about our Sunday Dinner Jobs. Every Sunday, my 3 girls rotate different jobs: help make dinner, set the table (fancy), and help make desert. In that post, I showed a picture of my daughter helping make one of our very favorite side-dish salads. She’s grown up so much since […]
Easy Ribs
Warning: If you’re a gourmet cook easily offended by easy and convenient recipes, look away right now and don’t continue reading. Anyone who has eaten my ribs at barbecues or holidays makes the same comment – “Oh my goodness, these are sooo good. How do you get them so tender?” Um, I make some vague […]
Instant Pot Baked Beans
My kids really loved baked beans. I usually buy a lot of cans of the stuff at the store, because making beans from scratch is usually too much of a pain. Then I got an Instant Pot, with its promises to cook up DRY BEANS without soaking first. This means I can dump all of […]
Family Reset Meeting {OBC}
Welcome to Organizing Boot Camp where you will be trained to organize and get a great jump-start on organizing some trouble spots in your home. The next six weeks will be as good as you make it. Don’t hold yourself back. Don’t wait until you live in your future dream-home to get organized. Having an […]
LEGO Day! {Tips For A Fun & Easy Day}
I think there were a couple specific things that made our Lego day so awesome. Yesterday, we didn’t go anywhere and spent a relaxed day at home building with LEGOS. At one point, one of my kids said “Thanks, Mom.” I was confused what she was saying thanks about, so I asked. She said “For […]
Living Standards – Minimum Daily Habits {OBC}
If you are participating in the Organizing Boot Camp, daily Living Standards are crucial. Organization, at its core, is really all about habits. Our Living Standard is the accumulation of daily habits we’ve come to accept. If you usually skip bed-making, leave dirty dishes in the sink for a while, or pile things up instead […]
ASK MARY ANYTHING #2 – Meet My Kids
Someone asked if I could introduce my kids, so yesterday’s Ask Mary Anything Video introduced you to my four kids. It was a live video, so I didn’t have a lot of control over what they said … 😬. I loved how special they felt being the focus of the video. They help me so […]
Starting soon – Organizing Boot Camp!
Are you ready for one of my favorite parts of summer? Get ready for the Organizing Boot Camp! It starts in 1 week!! Weekly Assignments This year we will organize some of our trickiest areas: Week 1 – The Kitchen Week 2 – A Bedroom Week 3 – A Bathroom Week 4 – Closet […]