Time to get down to business! Have you done any goal setting lately? Here are some strategies to get you started and achieve success. Healthy Eating Made Easy We may be already halfway through the second month of the year, but I am, nonetheless, still a little giddy about what the year has in store. I…
Wondering how to use a Kindle for homeschooling? Here’s how we’re doing it with our 11th, 9th, 7th, 5th, and 3rd graders. We are a device family. We play video games. We watch movies. I love my iphone like a seventh child. But for about 15 years of homeschooling, we were mostly a pen and…
I’m a germaphobe and I don’t like shopping secondhand. But, I took a chance and here’s my review of ThredUp, an online secondhand clothing store. ON tshirt: $4.99; unbranded belt: $5.99 Can it really be just two months since I had that wake-up call in Nordstrom? In early September I took a long hard look…
Household chores are a part of life for most of the world. How can you organize yours so that they are simple, easy, and not so much drudgery? Work is a necessary part of life. It’s kind of God’s design. So, I don’t really believe that we can or should escape all work. I do…
You want to manage your time wisely, but sometimes nothing works. Check out these time management tips that do. This post is written by Life as Mom contributor Prerna Malik. Print & Go Planner; Rainbow List Thingy Have you ever looked around the house and wondered where the day went? Do you struggle with getting things done…
Want to do a fun and simple craft that you can use in real life. Make homemade lavender soap!
Packing clothes for family travel can make a mom’s head spin. Life as MOM contributor Deanna has a great packing system to help make your family’s travel wardrobe more organized and streamlined. Disclosure: This post is not sponsored by Ziploc in any way. 🙂 In the past I haven’t always had good success with traveling…
It’s sad, but true. Head lice outbreaks can pop up in school. Life as MOM contributor JessieLeigh Smith has some great tips on how to prevent lice from hitting your household. A new school year has begun! This means we will all soon be getting lots of things from the school– homework papers, permission slips,…
Life as MOM contributor Janel offers tips and tricks to deodorizing a home the all-natural way. This past summer, my family was “homeless.” We house-sat for various friends and acquaintances for 8 weeks in California and then spent a few weeks visiting family and driving across the country back to Virginia. Meanwhile, all of our…
This post does include Amazon affiliate links. If you make a purchase through those links, I am paid a small amount in way of advertising fees. We decided that we were going to homeschool when I was pregnant with our first child. We didn’t really have an idea how were going to pull that off,…