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Simple Saturdays is bi-weekly encouragement to help moms simplify their life and live with more passion and purpose.
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I won’t apologize for being ‘just a mom’
When I got into the world of ‘Mommy Blogging’ it was easy to swim in the pool of writing and reading about parenting. After all, with two toddlers at sixteen months apart I had a permanent stool at the swim-up bar in the parenting pool. And I wasn’t leaving. Not even to pee. Cause really, […]
Identity Clutter, Abundance Mindset, Declutter tip, Oil Cleansing. Episode 23
When we have so much stuff we lose track of ourselves. We have built up a false identity in THINGS. SIMPLE HOME IDENTITY CLUTTER These things take up our space and cause us a lot of emotional, mental and physical burden. We need to shift our mindsets from SCARCITY TO ABUNDANCE (there will […]
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Identity Clutter (how clutter prevents our personal growth)
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 […]
Rethinking housework (from servitude to honour)
Stay at home mom = wake, cook, coffee, clean, eat, shower, cook, clean, eat, cook, clean, sleep Or something along those lines. Maybe with a bit more Instagramming, diapers and Elmo. I’ve said before that I believe it’s easy to lose your sense of value as a stay at home mom. I mean – is it […]
I Stopped Washing My Face {Oil Cleansing}
It all started about six years ago. LUSH was having a Christmas BOGO sale. Since I was up nursing a baby all through the night I knew I could jump right on that sale in the wee morn hours and BOG-O-of-everything! So my sisters in law gave me their Lush-input as I sat at the […]
This Simple Hack Will Help You Change Your Habits
I am the first to admit I am a creature of habit and many of those habits don’t always help me live optimally. I mean, sometimes the soul just needs a good whiskey and netflix. But often our ‘sometimes’ becomes a habit, a staple in our daily routine. I read this interesting nerdy book called […]
How to Know if You Are a Mom Martyr + what you can do about it
From the day you change your personal occupation to full time “Mom,” you might feel instantly banished to the world of ‘boring and domesticated.’ The label ‘Mom’ (especially Stay at home Mom) also comes with the ‘ Least Interesting Person in the Room’ award. Society undermines the value of moms and we start believing it. Some […]
Mindsets for Tired Moms, A Quick Way to Simplify Your Life, the Currently List. Episode 22
How I handled the lack of sleep with three kids under 4, a quick way to simplify your life, and a fun list of current things I’m loving and trying. ++ simple family ++ When I was two babies in, sleep became such a focus for me. Of course, we were dealing with marriage […]
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Mindsets for Tired Moms
I’ve been admiring new babies of my friends both online and offline. It really does seem like so long ago that my youngest, Dawson (now 4.5), was keeping me up through the night – but also not that long ago at all. I see these moms smile and I can remember how much energy it […]
The Quickest Way to Simplify Your Life (and nine areas to try it out)
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 to read – our brain […]