….And never spend another hour sorting through hundreds of socks, trying to find the match. I discovered the best laundry tip on Pinterest recently that completely changed my life. How I wish that I would have started doing this years ago! Pin It The idea is simple: Buy each person in your family a simple…
Bertolli Meal Soups – A Fancy Dinner at Home in 30 Minutes
I go through waves. Sometimes I love to cook nice dinners (I really am a good cook, I promise). But other times (the last few months, especially) I don’t want to be bothered to spend two hours in the kitchen getting dinner ready. My biggest problem lately is my lack of planning. I hardly even…
Tips to Get Kids Involved in Laundry
I created this post about getting kids to help with laundry while participating in a campaign by Mom Central Consulting on behalf of Shout and received a product sample to facilitate my post and a promotional item to thank me for taking the time to participate. With five kids and two adults in the house,…
Are You a Stressed Working Mom?
It’s only the 5th day of the year, and already I feel like I’ve talked quite a bit about seeking and achieving balance. I suppose it has just been on my mind. So it didn’t surprise me when the title of this Momversation video jumped out at me this morning. (No, I didn’t scream at…
Omega Water – Encouraging Good Habits
Recently, on the way back from dropping the kids off at school, I stopped to chat with the crossing guard, a friend and neighbor of mine. Somehow the conversation got onto the topic of the food we eat, exercise, and the difficult task of maintaining a healthy weight after kids and middle age. I have…
Finding my Mojo – Losing my Mojo
This past week (was it really only a few days longer than a week?!) was the best vacation I’ve had in a long time. Today was the first time in who knows how long since I’ve been sad to see my kids start back to school. Typically, I am eager for all of us to…
How Do Your Kids Spend and Save Money?
One of my kids’ favorite holiday and birthday gifts is always cash, but it’s interesting to observe each of my five kids handling their cash gifts totally differently. Just this past week, each of my kids received a rather substantial amount of money from family members (and in the case of my oldest daughter, some…
Lessons from the Pool Side
This week at the beach has not only been heavenly. It has been eye opening. Sometimes it takes a vacation and a complete break from work to make needed changes become more blaringly obvious. Here are a few things that my Florida vacation has reminded me about this week: – Eight hours of sleep is…
Shout It Out – Laundry Tips! {Giveaway}
There is one truth that you can be absolutely 100% sure of in a house of seven: There will always be laundry. Just when you think you’re getting caught up, there’s another basket-full ready to be washed. The laundry in a household with 5 children is literally never-ending. So I know laundry. I also know…
Emily Watson Discusses Parenting, Acting, and War Horse
It has been nearly two weeks since my trip to New York City and I still haven’t even scratched the surface of the amazing opportunity that it was to be in New York at Christmas with Disney/Dreamworks and a group of talented bloggers. The day after our group attended the world premiere of Steven Spielberg’s…