I had to gear myself up mentally to do a load of laundry. I was 6 months pregnant in August in Southern California. The washing machine and dryer sat in the stuffy, hot detached garage, way in the back of the property. And, I had two small kids to either drag back there with me, […]
How I Used To Be Overwhelmed By Laundry (And Conquered It)
“I’m almost out of workout shorts,” he gently mentioned. My husband didn’t want to make a big deal about running out of clothes, and often he would throw in his own load. But I felt terrible when I wasn’t keeping up with the laundry. The mounds in the dirty clothes bin overflowed onto the closet […]
5 Steps On How To Motivate Kids With A Positive Reward System
Her head was down on the table as she moaned, “I don’t waaaannnt toooo.” It was like pulling teeth to get her to do her homeschool math assignment. Some of the lessons had gotten repetitive, and all of a sudden she balked every time the math book came out. I clenched my teeth, trying to […]
How To Get A Good Nights Sleep With A Newborn Baby
Getting a good night’s sleep with a newborn in the house is like finding the hidden turtle at Trader Joe’s. It’s rare. Seemingly, impossible. The funny thing is, on the nights we started to get four-plus hours of sleep, we were like– “WOW! I can’t believe we slept so long!” You know it’s bad when […]
How To Have Peace When **It Happens (deployment, house disasters, life…)
I can picture myself sitting at the kitchen table staring at my computer, dread washing over me when I read the email: a sewer disaster in the rental house we owned, two states away. My poor tenant had emailed me a long description of what happened, including sewage spilling all over the master bathroom and […]