FYI: Today ONLY (Tuesday 9/17/19), there’s a flash sale going on for the Ultimate Healthy Meal Plan Bundle. If you love the IDEA of meal planning but don’t really have the time/desire/energy to do it all yourself, you will definitely want to check this bundle out! It includes over $1,000 of resources (including recipes, full …
Obviously, Vomit Was Involved Again + The Flu Too for Some Variety! {January in a Sentence a Day}
If you’re new around these parts, this monthly series is an exercise in brevity as I try (sometimes not very hard) to summarize each day of our month in one sentence. (Also, I’ve been taking a picture of my daughter every day since she was born, and this is a GREAT place for me to …
Secret Family Recipe: “My Boys’ Favorite Cookies”
The past few family recipes I’ve shared have all been from MY side of the family, but luckily for me, I married into a family of phenomenal cooks (especially my mother-in-law, who has the happy talent of being able to seemingly come up with delicious meals out of the most random odds and ends, and …
Final Grade on My Winter Term “Assigned Reading”
If you’re just tuning in, at the beginning of this “school year,” I decided to set myself some assigned reading to rev up my reading life and motivate me to read some of the books I’ve been putting off for years. Each term, I assigned myself three books and awarded each book a “percentage”—how much …
Why I’m Doing a Refresh of the 50 Weeks to Organized Project
Really, I could just post these quote-unquote “Before” pictures and call it good on posting today. But I’m nothing if not a little long-winded, so we just can’t have that. A brief summary for those of you who haven’t been reading this blog since 2013: Five years ago, I decided to tackle my clutter habits …
Results of My First Reader Survey
As I mentioned when I shared the initial post with the blog survey, in around a decade of blogging, I’ve never once done a survey asking for general feedback from my readers. For the first five years or so, it was because I didn’t even know reader surveys were “a thing,” and for the last …
11 Free/Cheap Ways to Get Out of the House in the Winter
While I overall LOVE the chance to stay at home (and appreciate it greatly, maybe even more so because I had to work the first year of Raven’s life), there ARE aspects of it that can become a bit wearing after awhile. After going through somewhat of a SAHM identity crisis last year, I …
My Best Sources For Finding What to Read Next
After going through both dry spells and true torrents in my life when it comes to reading motivation, I’m firmly convinced that about two-thirds of the battle of reading more is simply finding the right books to read in the first place. For a long time after I graduated college with my degree in English, …











