I grew up in England and America, and even Italy for a short while. When I’m talking to someone about my childhood, I often base my answers on what I did in one country. You would think that my childhood stories…
Category: Musings on Family
A for Effort? Worst Cook in America? Baking Failures?
Have you seen that show? Worst Cooks in America? I saw the show the other night. I could be a contestant on that show. Seriously! Why have I NOT applied to be on that show?? Heck, I could even win…
Deep Cleansing Hand Washing To Promote Family #Health #PurexInsider #giveaway
Disclosure: I am a Purex Insider. I was sent a sample pack of Dial® Deep Cleansing Hand Soaps. The opinions expressed in this post are my own. My family goes through A LOT of hand soap. I’m constantly refilling the…
Middle Schoolers Explore Engineering at #FutureCity #GirlDay2014
Science classes at my school were dry…and if I am honest…quite dull. The formats for all my classes in middle school and high school were set in stone. Years and years of girls at my school had done the same…
Introducing… The Wizarding World of Harry Potter–Diagon Alley!
I’m used to feeling tired. I always need more sleep. I dream of napping but rarely have time for a nap. I know that I can and do manage to get through my ever-present tiredness. I’ve probably not had a…
Family Game Night: Good Fortune #familygamenight #seizingfamilytime
Disclosure: I was sent the game to facilitate my review. I was not compensated to write this post. There was a time when we played games all the time. We played before school, after school, on the weekends. We played…
10 Tips for Decluttering Toys #organization
I’ve found that people fall in to two categories when it comes to their homes…the very neat and the very messy. There’s gray area in the home neatness spectrum. I fall in the gray…closer to the “very messy” but with…
5 Tips for Decluttering Your Home To Create Space #Organization
I never post before photos. Too scary. I don’t want reveal the clutter of my home. As I said it is TOO scary. But today I am doing the unthinkable posting a couple of before photos. The first photo is…
The Minions Are Coming to a City Near You
Those Minions are cute, aren’t they? So yellow and round and don’t you love how they have their own language. Those squeaky voices make me giggle, especially when one of them is super excited about something. Reminds me of my…
Inspiration Not Perspiration at Sports Practice #seizingfamilytime
Disclosure: The links in this post are to my amazon affiliate account. Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you are right. — Henry Ford I’ve spent a lot of time…
