Planning a Holiday Gathering – Tips for 2020

The COVID19 pandemic is creating a tough holiday season.  As cases continue to rise, families are left wondering how to proceed this holiday season.  Many of us are used to getting together with immediate and extended family for the holidays.  And how nice it has been all this time.  In our busy lives, we could always count on the holidays […]

Game Changing Night Time Cleaning Routine

Do These 3 Things Each Night to Wake Up to a Tidy Home! Not so long ago, I would wake up every morning to a pile a dirty dishes, clutter on the floor and stuff that needed to be cleaned, vacuumed, mopped, dusted and washed.  As you can imagine, it was kind of a nightmare.  I would push back breakfast […]

Making it through the Holiday Season in 2020

2020 has been tough, to say the least.  With COVID19 cases rapidly on the rise, it is clearer everyday that things will not get back to normal in the immediate future.  Which really stinks because Christmas is just a few weeks away.  And not everyone agrees on the pandemic.  Some people deny it exists.  Some believe it exists but is […]

Our Minimalist Christmas Gift Giving Process

Kids are so easy to please when they are small.  The smallest present would get the biggest reaction and I would feel like Mommy of the Year.  When the kids started preschool, that began to change.  They saw their friends making huge lists for Santa and getting lots of presents, and suddenly they wanted lots of presents too!  This was […]

How to Make Your Own Pre-lit Christmas Tree

Do you hate stringing lights on the Christmas tree each year? Would you like to cut down the amount of time spent on putting up your Christmas tree? Have you thought about purchasing a new Christmas tree because the one you have is not pre-lit? Have the lights on your “pre-lit Christmas tree” begun to go out? Do you cringe […]