organization

Are You Prepared for a Power Outage?

What would you do if you had a power outage at your home?  Are you ready for one that lasts a couple of days?  Go check out my post about Creating an Emergency Kit for a Power Outage at In a Nutshell to find out how you can get your family ready!  

7 Quick Takes: October 14, 2011 (Vol. 100)

~ 1 ~ Really?  This is volume 100? That’s like having done seven quick takes every week for two years, although I know that I’ve missed some weeks, so I have obviously done it for more than two years. Crazy! Here’s to two more years of seven quick takes! ~ 2 ~   At least [...]

Organizing a Habitually Messy Area

My monthly post is up at The Happy Housewife.  This month, I’m sharing some tips for working on a habitually messy or disorganized area of your house. From the post… If you also have these kinds of issues, I suspect you hope that this is where I will come in and share my life-changing organization [...]

7 Quick Takes: September 23, 2011 (Vol. 97)

~ 1 ~ We went apple picking this week.  We ended up taking home around 13 pounds of apples.  When you consider that our only real goal is to eat the apples, that’s probably a lot of apples to have.  I think that I might make an apple crisp this weekend, but other than that [...]

7 Quick Takes: September 2, 2011 (Vol. 95)

~ 1 ~ This week, I launched the blog that I have been avoiding. It was a quiet launch.  It doesn’t even feel like launch is the right word, actually.  Let’s say, instead, that I started a blog and told some people about it.  That’s more the speed of it. It’s called Striving for Less, [...]

Finding Time for Creative Endeavors

*Do you have a post about scheduling?  Make sure to share a link to it in the link up below!* I’m sure that your schedule is a lot like my schedule — there never seems to be quite enough time. When I’m pressed for time, as I often am, one of the first things to [...]

Make Life Simpler with 52 Projects

Yeah, so this isn’t one of those, “Change your life in three easy steps.”  Quite frankly, we all know this doesn’t work, right? Oh sure, if your three steps are things like: 1. Quit Your Job. 2. Get a divorce. 3. Go live in a cave. Then, yes, that would make for some pretty big [...]

Our Schedule for a Typical Homeschooling Week

Since our homeschooling days don’t always look the same, I thought it might be more helpful to go with a general overview of what we do each week.  We use a lot of materials each week, so not every subject gets scheduled every day.  However, we do tend to go in a pattern, so it [...]

Weekly Homeschool Planner Review

I was recently able to review the Weekly Homeschool Planner by Jolanthe from Homeschool Creations.  I had thought about the planner many times, but since I typically make my own, I haven’t invested the money into it.  So, I was excited to be able to check it out for free to review.  (Oh, and be [...]

Our Homeschool Planner for My Eclectic Curriculum

I have never been able to just pick a curriculum for our homeschooling.  Nothing has ever felt like just the right fit for us.  So, I have always picked a little of this, a little of that, to make our very eclectic curriculum.  There is one reason that I am jealous of people who go [...]

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