How to make a daily schedule for you and your kids at home

family daily schedule during isolation written on chalkboard overlay with text

Once I was a mom with three small kids, I realized the life-giving value that ‘a plan’ can bring to your day.  A plan helps you know when things will happen, make sure you make time for the things you want to do, and prepare all the mindsets/resources/supplies you need for the plan to happen.  … Read more

Be Brave With Your Life

(this is Step three of Showing Up For Your Life, see the whole series here) When you realize your life isn’t what you want it to be you find yourself in a place where you are ready to take responsibility for it, or you will keep looking for ways to avoid the responsibility.  After feeling … Read more

A simple life is about more than just managing your time (+ free worksheets)

 You fine readers asked for it, and here it is!  THE SERIES on how to live more simply. Live simpler. Simple living. How to simplify your life. You get it.  This will be a four-part series. Today is PART ONE. (This is also covered in episode 30, so feel free to read on, or listen … Read more

Identity Clutter (this type of clutter is preventing your personal growth)

clutter is a burden on getting to know ourselves better

Identity clutter is a concept I shared in a Simple Saturdays email (make sure to subscribe if you don’t already!) and had such a great response I thought it would be worth expanding on.   I shared the story about how I bought all these fancy flours to make this cool bread from a recipe … Read more

The Quickest Way to Simplify Your Life (and nine areas to try it out)

how to simplify life when you are a mom

I’ll get right to it. One of the quickest ways you can simplify ANY AREA of your life is to give yourself fewer choices. There are many studies that tell us that having too many choices is a problem.  When we have to choose from 100 menu items or 17 career options, or 200 books … Read more