{Post by Jessica} Cold winter temps mean spending more of your down time stuck in doors. Cabin fever can easily set in, but instead of curling under a blanket eating the last of the Christmas cookies, take this time to review and organize your home. Let’s focus on a room-by-room home organization plan. To keep this task from feeling daunting or from becoming so … [Read more...]
Easy Way to Start with Natural Cleaning Products
Welcome to Homemaking Tips Tuesdays where contributing writers share helpful homemaking tips so you can feel more successful caring for your home and family. {This week, post by: Jaimi} When my doctor shared the news I was stunned. After 25 years of having an auto-immune disease this was the last thing I wanted to hear. My hopes had been high that my stable situation … [Read more...]
Speed Cleaning Tips to Keep a Clean House
Welcome to Homemaking Tips Tuesdays where contributing writers share helpful homemaking tips so you can feel more successful caring for your home and family. {This week post by Jaimi} Are you into speed cleaning? A friend of mine told me about her speed cleaning videos on YouTube, and I had to check them out for some motivation and ideas. Speed cleaning is … [Read more...]
How to Spring Clean Your Appliances
Welcome to Homemaking Tips Tuesdays where contributing writers share helpful homemaking tips so you can feel more successful caring for your home and family. {This week, post by: Jessie} How to Clean Appliances Ah, Spring, how I’ve been waiting for you to arrive! Spring is a time to open the windows, air out the house, and give everything a good once over. In … [Read more...]
Spring Cleaning Checklists
Welcome to Homemaking Tips Tuesdays where contributing writers share helpful homemaking tips so you can feel more successful caring for your home and family. {This week, post by: Jaimi} Spring cleaning time is here! Do you get excited to give your house a good deep cleaning or are you more likely to want to hide in the closet hoping someone else will take care of … [Read more...]
DIY “Bleach”
Welcome to Homemaking Tips Tuesdays where contributing writers share helpful homemaking tips so you can feel more successful caring for your home and family. {This week, post by: Jaimi} The smell of my house when the bleach load went in the washer was almost unbearable. I am glad I found a recipe to create my own DIY bleach. I can’t even believe this exists! Two … [Read more...]
19 Homemaking Quick Tips
Welcome to Homemaking Tips Tuesdays where contributing writers share helpful homemaking tips so you can feel more successful caring for your home and family. {This week, post by: Jaimi} My kids love to pretend together. It’s the greatest view to see all 4 in all their different stages of development interacting and playing together. They love that show Ninjago that … [Read more...]
DIY Carpet Deodorizer
Welcome to Homemaking Tips Tuesdays where contributing writers share helpful homemaking tips so you can feel more successful caring for your home and family. {This week, post by: Jaimi} If your house is smelling less than fresh thanks to the kids tracking in moisture on their boots or shoes during bad weather, from guests tracking more steps in and out, or from the … [Read more...]
Keep an Organized Refrigerator
Welcome to Homemaking Tips Tuesdays where contributing writers share helpful homemaking tips so you can feel more successful caring for your home and family. {This week, post by: Jessica} How often do you open your refrigerator only to close it again in frustration? Maybe you can’t seem to find what you’re looking for. Maybe you have multiple of the same items … [Read more...]
One All-Purpose Cleaner for Everything
Welcome to Homemaking Tips Tuesdays where contributing writers share helpful homemaking tips so you can feel more successful caring for your home and family. {This week, post by: Jaimi} A year ago I completely changed how I clean the house. I used to buy one cleaner for windows and glass, another cleaner for the toilets, one for the floors and even another for wiping … [Read more...]
Get into a Decluttering Mindset
Welcome to Homemaking Tips Tuesdays where contributing writers share helpful homemaking tips so you can feel more successful caring for your home and family. Did you know the average 10 year old has over 200 toys, but only plays with about 10 on a daily basis? Many of us love holding on to stuff. I have a daughter (who shall remain nameless) who has a complete hoarder … [Read more...]
Finding Time When You Don’t Have Enough
Welcome to Mom Motivation Mondays where weekly contributing writers share their motherhood experiences to encourage you to find the joy in being a mom. {This week: Post by Heather} Do you do it all? Are you feeling stretched for time? Are you constantly doing and doing but yet it feels like you’re not getting anything done? You’re most definitely not alone. … [Read more...]
Spring Cleaning Kids Can Do
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Fellowes Brands for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine. Getting my spring cleaning done makes me feel better about being at home. It makes me feel successful, content and glad that I created a clean, comfortable space for my family. But, and this is a big BUT, it takes me a while to get it all done. I want the … [Read more...]
Teaching Children to Care for Books
It can be nerve-wracking letting your child 'read' books since many pages get ripped, pulled out, and chewed. I tried my best to supervise my children when they were infants and toddlers to help eliminate the need for constant book repair. We keep the board books lower on the shelf so the younger ones can't reach the books with paper pages, but this does not always work out … [Read more...]
Complete Guide for Stay-at-Home Moms: When You Need Homemaking Tips
Despite popular opinion, life as a stay-at-home mom is not all lunches with the ladies and eating bon bons on the couch while catching up on our "soaps". (I think the last time I watched a soap opera was in high school!) No, there is REAL work to be done as a mom, wife and homemaker. Yes, the real "dirty" work is necessary, so we have put together a resource to help make … [Read more...]