How to Create Easy Holiday Traditions
Do you have holiday traditions you do every year? We have a ton of holiday traditions we love, and these traditions totally make the season fun and meaningful every year. We keep things simple and easy, and when we follow our 6 basic holiday principles, it’s easy to create holiday traditions that everyone can enjoy. We have six fun principles we follow every year that make our holiday traditions things we look forward to, rather than something we dread. To help you decide the easy holiday traditions you’d like to incorporate for your family’s holiday season, I’ve created a 16-page guide to making your own easy holiday traditions. You can…
9 Simple Tips For a Stress Free Holiday
The words “Stress Free” and “Holiday” are not typically said in the same sentence, but I’ve got some tips for a stress free holiday that should help you out! The winter holidays have become my favorite time of the year and for us – most of the time – we DO have stress free holidays! We have multiple branches of family to coordinate with every year for Thanksgiving and Christmas but it’s always a fun season for us instead of being stressful. 9 Simple Tips for a Stress Free Holiday 1. Start Early Like SUPER EARLY! We start discussing our holiday calendar around the time school starts in August. No…
An Inside Look at our Secret Bedtime Routine
How would your evenings change if it only took you 20 minutes to put your kids to bed? What if there were no arguments, no fits, and no fighting when you told the kids it was time for sleeping? Impossible, you say? It’s not! And I can prove it. When it’s time for bed, it takes us 30 minutes to get our kids to sleep. It takes about 20 minutes to get through the nightly routine, and then our children are typically asleep about 10 minutes after we turn the lights off. Every. Single. Night! It’s not magic I promise! Here’s what we do. This post may contain affiliate links,…
The Unpopular Secret to Eliminating Chaos in the Home
We’ve got 10 minutes before we have to leave for school. One kid can’t find a shoe. Another kid refuses to put on a coat even though it’s 40 degrees outside. Another child can’t find the notebook I’m supposed to sign that’s due back to class today. My husband is ticked because he got dressed for work before the youngest finished his waffles and now he’s got syrup on his work shirt. Everyone’s mad. Everyone’s yelling. It’s complete chaos filling the entire household. Sound familiar? I’m sure you have these days too. You might have them every day like we did for a very, very long time. I dreaded the…
How to Stop Hating Laundry Forever
I was drowning in piles. Piles and piles and piles of laundry. Every color of the rainbow filling every corner of my bedroom and flooding the floor until there was no carpet left, only pools of t-shirts and shorts and underwear and socks threatening to choke out every breath from my clean-freak body. And I hated EVERY. SINGLE. SECOND of it. Until. Enough was enough. I was through. I was through being angry. I was through feeling unsettled. I was through having to ignore and step over and wade through the piles and piles of laundry that taunted me in the back of my mind until I’d spend the 4…
