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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How to Cash Flow a Holiday While Paying Off Debt Chuck and I had a short list of things we really wanted to do when our kids were visiting from New Zealand. I wanted an uncle/nephew photo shoot, I wanted to take Ben and Jared up to Mt. Baker, Chuck wanted to introduce Ben to…
As I am sure you can imagine, the days are flying by here our New Zealand family. Percy is the cutest thing ever. Not only is he gorgeous, but he has the best personality. He has adjusted amazingly well considering how many new faces he has met. Let’s just say our house is a wee…
Free Time? Sounds Like the Perfect Time to Cook Well, completely unexpectedly my son with autism went to school today! This meant I shaved two hours of driving off of my daily schedule. I wasn’t about to squander this unexpected “free time” so as soon as I dropped Apollo of at school I headed to…
I Was Wrong: Experiencing Junior High Basketball Remember last year when I told you Cross Country was the Best Sport Ever? Mainly because you can park yourself in a seat and read until the last 5 minutes when your child crosses the finish line and you can smile, cheer, and Be Proud? Yeah. Turns out…
Follow my blog with Bloglovin The Best Board Games for Large Families Finding board games that work with large families can be tough. We have a huge age spread in our house (currently 8-17) which makes choosing games complicated. We play them a ton of board games in the winter and around the holidays. This…
How to Survive Thanksgiving in a Large Family Post contains affiliate links. Well, friends, we survived Thanksgiving 2018 with no injuries, casualties, or emergencies. One strange advantage to not having extended family nearby is we don’t have the Holiday Drama that includes dragging our little cherubs from one house to another for three days straight….
This post about keeping your family healthy this winter contains affiliate links. How to Keep Your Family Healthy This Winter Cold and flu season is upon us. No one in my family will ever forget the October we all had the stomach flu (norovirus) during a days-long power outage. It was horrible beyond words. But,…
I Have Some SICK Superpowers…And I Bet You Do Too I don’t want to brag or anything, but I have some pretty sick superpowers. And by sick, I mean Supernatural Individual and Critical Knowlege. SICK. For instance, just this morning I spotted a cluster of green grapes on the steps as I headed up for…
Tilly and Jared shared some great news on Instagram recently. Chuck and I have another kiwi grandchild on the way! We absolutely could not be any happier. Tilly and Jared celebrated their one-year anniversary in August and are thrilled with so excited to start their family. It looks like I will be headed back to New…
There is nothing like the change in weather from hot nights to cool, brisk, mornings to motivate me to get outside and enjoy the last bit of nice weather and sun before the infamous Pacific Northwest rain sets in for winter. As you know, Chuck works a bajillion hours a week, two hours away, often six…