We just spent the week talking about gift giving. We talked about ways to make your gifts more thoughtful and ways to give kids gifts without it feeling like you are overrun with toys. There are still some ways you can make your gift giving simpler. Here are some tips to make […]
We are coming off a year of ‘giving experiences not gifts’ so I’ve been approaching this Christmas with a smaller shopping list and big plans on how to ‘do things’ with our kids. We have told the kids that for Christmas we will take them to a hotel and go swimming. Their reaction has been […]
Happy Thanksgiving Monday! Today is a day when kids get to skip preschool, rustle through giant leafy nests and we get to deal with the hangover our kitchen just endured. Or….maybe it’s a day to hang in PJs, make waffles, send your husband passive aggressive texts about using the last of the maple syrup and deal […]
This could be a post on being worldly, nomadic and always ready to pick up for the next whimsical adventure. But, it’s not. It is about how we view our homes. As we’ve leaned in to ‘minimalism‘ I have found there are ups and downs to making it work as a family of five. Yet, as […]
Hey all! It’s #fiveonfriday! Where I join up with some lady bloggers and we each share a list of five things. Everyone is different, so make sure to check out their links at the bottom of the post. I’m a recovering frivolous shopper. Since I’m trying to empty my home of needless items that I’ve acquired over […]
We have been purging our house since January 2015 (even if we aren’t very good at it). Though we’ve gotten rid of over a dozen truckloads, I still feel like I’ve been failing at ‘minimalism’ because of this one room…. The kitchen. I do feel exhausted with this space. It is our main living space. And living […]
There was stuff I was having troubles getting rid of. So I made the commitment to have a garage sale because I knew I needed motivation to let go of what I was perceiving as the ‘gooder crap I don’t want but it’s still kinda useful or worth something’. This is a special category of […]
This is a guest post by Assya, who I met through the Unsettle Facebook group. I read her article and I just couldn’t get it out of my head, I still can’t. I just keep thinking of all the stuff in my parent’s house that one day we will have to thumb through, box by painful box. […]
There are lots of reasons I have shopped for clothes. Usually, these reasons are centered around it being a form of entertainment. Or maybe to prepare for a special event. Or I just want that ‘thing’ that will make me feel ‘good’. This past October I was preparing for the November Moms30for30 and I kinda made […]
The first time I took away half of my kids’ toys it involved an “incident” that happened while I was nursing the baby. (Maybe you remember this one….) The type of incident which included three jars of baby powder; me having an out-of-body experience of unreasonable calmness; a tearful vacuuming session (my tears mostly); and […]