I wish I had jumped on the chores bandwagon when the children were small. The earlier you start assigning chores to your children the better, right? My little ones always wanted to help me clean or fold laundry…even if I…
Category: Musings on Me
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…
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…
Musings on Little Ones: Taking a Trip Down Memory Lane #Halloween
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. My neighbor stopped by on Halloween with her adorable baby. He’s about one. He was strapped in his jogging stroller. The rain was starting to…
Start Your Holiday Shopping Early @Kmart with #KmartLayaway
Disclosure: This is a sponsored post. I am a Kmart blogger, though all opinions are my own. Layaway was one of new terms I learned when I moved to the United States. The shopping experience in England was so VERY…
Anyone See the Sun? Bueller? Bueller?
A couple of weeks I watched the rain. It rained and it rainied. From drizzle to high winds to heavy rain, it did not stop raining all week. The low point of that very wet week came on Friday. I…
Who Says I Can’t Rock a Blue Wig?! #fiercefund
Turning 40 was just one of those milestones. I wasn’t even dreading the whole “turning 40” thing. It was just another birthday. A time to celebrate with family. But then I started getting all introspective. I started thinking differently about…
British Housing…Making the Most of What Little Space There Is #EnglishMemories
My husband looked puzzled as he peered at me from the dining room doorway. He had heard my laughing from two rooms over the noise of the TV and came to investigate. Why was I laughing? What was so funny…he…
Rain, Rain, Go Away #EnglishMemories
I’m sitting here on the couch staring out the window. Rain is coming down. It’s damp…chilly…and bleak. Nothing like Monday’s heavy tornado-like rain. Just a rainy day. I’m used to rain. Growing up in England, rain was the weather I…
