Growing skills in parenting and organizing.
Being married to a pack rat can be incredibly frustrating. Especially when you find yourself constantly trying to reduce the clutter while your husband keeps creating more.
One of the most important things when it comes to having a clean and organized home is to reduce the clutter within it’s walls. The truth is though, when you are married to a pack rat, this isn’t an easy feat. In fact, trying to manage a space that is overflowing with someone else’s clutter can be downright infuriating.
After having twin boys it was no secret to anyone that I was hoping for a girl with my next pregnancy. I got my wish and entered the girl world. Now that we were having a baby girl I would ask all my friends that were girl moms what I need to know.
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of The Duck Brand for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine.
There are pros and cons for having the first grandkids. Pros – extra excitement for being the first including lots of attention and visits from the grandparents. Cons – No hand-me-downs. I am the purchaser of all the clothes and my sister gets to benefit with all the hand-me-downs.
I can’t tell you how many times she has asked me…where is that cute red dress that I know Britton wore a few years ago?
Do you want your planner or bullet journal to look artsy or preppy or bohemian but you aren’t an artist? I have always wanted my planner to look cute as well as organized but I have poor handwriting and am not an artist. I have found some super easy ways to make my journal look amazing without having to draw myself.
Do you ever look at that mountain of laundry and wonder why we have so many clothes? I always want to know how to organize dresser drawers so I can fit more into them and not have a giant mess when we pull one shirt out.
A couple months ago I finished folding and went to put it away in the kids drawers and realized I couldn’t fit everything in. I knew it was time for a major overhaul of the kids drawers. I knew there were various systems and I needed a way to fit more clothes so I googled how to organize drawers and found all these motivating ideas.
This is a sponsored post with Jenny Life Insurance and BraVoMark. All opinions are mine.
Here’s a little piece of my past, I used to work in the insurance industry. I worked in New York and Atlanta for a major insurance company. Therefore, I am a little obsessive about our policies. I have known for a few years that we needed to update our life insurance policies.
Toy Bin Labels can be your best answer if you are struggling to get your kids to help clean up their toys.
Do you ask your kids to start picking up and they look at you like you are speaking a different language?
Want a new way to stay organized? Are you making multiple to do lists? Here is a weekly planner I came up with to help me keep up with all my tasks and assign them to different days of the week. I love having a week at a glance sheet to print out each week instead of having multiple to do lists.
Are you making to do lists but not able to prioritize the items as well as you need? Want to write something down on the day that it needs to be completed? Enter this new printable.
Have you ever picked up a kid for carpool and the mom asks to put the sports bag in your trunk and you freeze? If you open your trunk you know it will be super embarrassing but you have to do it. With all of our sports bags, outdoor chairs and blankets we need every weekend, just adding in one or two school bags makes our trunk look unorganized and messy. The trick is how to organize your car trunk and have it stay organized.
I went online to check out how all the super organized moms in the world keep their trunk looking great. Here are the 7 best organized trunks that I found.
I do not want to trip over my boys cleats anymore. We have some built-in shelves for them but they always end up at the bottom of the steps where they sit to take them off. My husband is threatening to throw away all the toys in the garage if we don’t tackle our problem with sports equipment storage.
I researched some ideas of how to tackle all our soccer balls, cleats and tennis rackets and get it all under control. Why reinvent the wheel? Let’s see some ideas of what others are doing.
