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Work at Home and Homeschooling Moms Get Balance in the Chaos

Whether you work at home, homeschool your kids or are a stay at home mom, this list of resources and tips is a go to for you! These work at home tips streamline homemaking tasks. They help you stay organized. They encourage you to live a life of balance and not chaos. Working at home and homeschooling are so similar. We are balancing home and an additional job on top of it. … [Read more...]

5 Quick Ideas to Make Your Home a Haven

Make your home a haven with 5 simple ideas as we stay at home more.

This post is sponsored by Brightology. All opinions are my own. Please view my disclosure. #AD We stay at home moms were staying at home before it was a mandate. Cultivating a peaceful, happy home is our work. These are 5 quick ideas to make your home a haven. Each of these steps are what has made my home the soft place to land for my family. … [Read more...]

Simple Steps to a Natural Lifestyle

It is not difficult to live a more natural lifestyle even with little kids at home. In fact, while they are little is the best time to start! It becomes second nature to our kids. What we live, they learn. These 3 simple steps to a natural lifestyle are the steps I took to keep my family healthy and maintain health balance at home. … [Read more...]

Laundry Organization Tips to Save Time

Laundry tips to save time: labeled hampers so kids can sort their own laundry.

My daughter asked me to help her put her clothes away. She was getting dressed by herself at age 2, so she knew where her clothes were in the drawers. Putting clothes away, though, was hard for her. I agreed to help and was stressed about what I found! Her drawers were a mess! All the time I was putting in to folding the kids’ clothes was going to waste. I changed my laundry … [Read more...]

Favorite Time Saving Home Tools

No doubt when you have kids, you need to maximize your time. These favorite time saving home tools are saving me cleaning time and giving me more time to relax and keep life in balance. We need to help the kids with homework, have fun with them, and they eat a lot! It feels like I am either cleaning or getting my kids something to eat for the majority of my day. These … [Read more...]

Everyone Can Help at Home: Kids, Dads + Tips for Balance

Our household felt out of balance during my first year homeschooling. Dishes, cleaning, floors, bathrooms, the clutter piled up and stressed me out. I had to shift my thinking to realize just how everyone can help at home-this includes chores for the kids, ideas for dads to spend time with the kids and a focus on the tasks that were most important to complete. I did not … [Read more...]

Kids Birthday Party Ideas During Coronavirus

We celebrated 2 of our kids' birthdays during the covid-19 quarantine. Despite the circumstances, we still tried help the kids create great memories despite the situation. There are some kids birthday party ideas during coronavirus that are creative and fun despite the pandemic. … [Read more...]

Stay at Home Snacks

Anyone else's kids eating all the time these days? Mine are! It is a constant event when kids are home for school it seems. I found some stay at home snacks during quarantine to help us extend our time between grocery trips. When you can't shop multiple times a week, want to reduce how much you are spending on snacks, or just want to serve your kids healthy, inexpensive … [Read more...]

Fall Diffuser Recipes Free Printable

Diffusing essential oils is a great way to scent your home without toxins-as long as you have natural essential oils, of course. Download this free printable collection of fall diffuser recipes. You will not run out of great spicy combinations for scenting your home this Fall. … [Read more...]

Back to School Lunch Ideas

Now that summer is over and the kiddos are back in school (yay!) making sure that they have healthy food (which they will actually eat) is a whole new area that we moms have to tackle. #thestruggleisreal These back to school lunch ideas are a hit in my house. … [Read more...]

Save Money on Kids Activities: Passes, Free Activities & Tips with NewAir

Save money on kids activities with these 5 tips. There is no need to go over budget to spend time with our kids.

Taking kids out and about on field trips, to outdoor events or museums can end up being a pretty costly way to spend time together as a family. Zoos, museums and indoor bounce gyms are a lot of fun though! To afford the fun activities, we try to save money on kids activities in easy ways. … [Read more...]

Getting Kids to Eat What You Cook

Getting kids to eat what you cook can be a struggle! Try this tip next time.

{Post by Jessica Stremer} Have you ever cooked a super yummy dish, only to have your kids refuse to eat it because they can see some tiny spec of spices, herbs or seasonings?  My kids used to pull this on me all the time, even though I knew they would like their meal once they tried it. Getting kids to eat what you cook can be a struggle! … [Read more...]

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