I remember it like it was yesterday. It was my twenty-fifth birthday, and I was sitting on my front porch fighting back tears. I thought that by the ripe old age of twenty-five, I shouldn’t be such a mess. I always figured I’d have it all together by then. Instead, I felt completely overwhelmed. I couldn’t keep up with…
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15 Ways to Have More Energy Today
I’ve been tired lately. No, I’ve been really tired lately. I’m not sick or anything like that. I’m just the wife of a man who’s in a busy work season and the mom of teenagers. Teenagers need a lot of sleep, but they don’t seem to need it during the same hours that I do. Go figure. Unfortunately, life doesn’t…
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How to Schedule Your Mornings So You Can Get More Done
Of all the things I do to keep up with the business of running a household (and keeping it from turning into a complete mess!), my Morning Routine is the most important. My Morning Routine gets most of the must-do home keeping tasks taken care of early in the day so I can focus on other people and projects in…
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4 Easy Ways to Fight Clutter Every Day
One day last week, when I rolled out of bed at a ridiculously early hour (because I like starting my morning routine while my family and most of the sane world are still asleep), I walked into the kitchen and immediately got a knot in my stomach. The same thing had happened the day before…and a couple days before that,…
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What to Do When You Have a Bad Day
A couple days ago, I cried. A lot. Like six-times-over-the-course-of-a-day kind of a lot. I still don’t know why or what was so messed up inside of me, but everything just felt “off.” It was like Murphy’s Law was out to get me, and it seemed like everything was going wrong. And I was pretty sure it was going to…
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5 Simple Steps to Catching Up On Coupons
A few weeks ago when I finalized my goals for this year, I set some goals for our money. I wrote down that I wanted us to build up our emergency fund and to pay off debt. But the thing is, it’s not like we have a whole bunch of extra money floating around. Sure, we do our share of…
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5 Questions to Ask Before You Clean Anything
There are a million and one things calling out for your time and attention, and you only have a limited number of minutes each day to spend on cleaning and organizing your home. And, honestly, even if you had an unlimited amount of time to devote to cleaning, you probably wouldn’t want to waste the bulk of your days doing nothing but sorting and scrubbing….
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