Helping Families Minimize Chaos and Maximize Joy
Large family life means multiplying love, laundry, dishes, and groceries. It means planning ahead, learning how to organize a large family, and how to keep clutter to a minimum so you don’t end up on an episode of Hoarders.
Minimizing clutter, calendars, laundry, and dishes will help maximize joy in your large family.
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Sadly, math was never, ever one of my favorite subjects in school. In fact, many years I absolutely dreaded it. When I took my final math class for my college degree (Probability and Statistics) I felt like throwing a party. When it came to homeschooling, I was determined that my children would have a different…
Greetings from the Land Down Under. Or whatever it is they call New Zealand. Once I arrived at the airport on the appropriate day, I had no trouble checking in, flying fourteen hours, catching another plane, flying an hour, being picked up by handsome and charming son-in-law then driving an hour through a mountain pass…
Come on, certainly you’ve done something dumb in your life. Leave a comment and make me feel better…then I’ll share something dumb I’ve done.
Well, friends, it’s been a while. I have been busy with summer, but in addition to that, our wifi went out last week and I was unable to blog. I am happy to say that all of my children survived this truly grueling ordeal with their lives and sanity intact. I am so very proud…
Apollo’s ninth birthday landed on the day of Judah’s graduation from the Trooper Basic (and just a day and a half after I arrived home from New Zealand) so, needless to say, his party was postponed until I recovered and life was back to “normal”. We finally got around to having it last week. He…
Large family birthdays are a wonderful way to celebrate each individual child. This post was sponsored by basicinvite.com. Please check them out for your next celebration. Receive 15% off with this promo code: 15FF51 I know some large famlies choose to do big “family birthdays” or keep individual parties small and simple. While these are…
Giving birth is a big deal. Here are some tips on how to help a new mom when visiting the new baby. Everyone Loves a New Baby…But Don’t Forget the New Mom Everyone loves a new baby, am I right? They are squishy and squirmy and adorable. And who isn’t curious to see exactly what…
What could be more fun, you ask, then getting up at 3:30 am after arriving home a mere 8-hours earlier from a 30-hour journey across hemispheres and driving 150 miles to see your son commissioned as a Washington State Trooper? Why, bringing along the entire family, of course! Keep in mind, Chuck had only arrived…
I’ve been busy. I arrived home from New Zealand at 7:30 pm Monday night and had to get up at 3:30 am Tuesday morning so Chuck, Apollo, and I could drive all the way to Olympia (a 150-mile drive) for Judah’s badge pinning ceremony. Let me be honest, it was rough. But I soldiered on…
This story of my food photography journey contains affiliate links. I never thought I would enjoy food photography. I don’t even like cooking, but as the mother of 14 kids cooking is inevitable. I have posted many recipes over the years but my photos were truly cringe-worthy. Despite owning a photography business since 2009 and…