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The Mommy Sense of Hearing

As I help my preschool daughter put on her dress, I hear a loud crash in the dining room where my toddler is coloring. Instantly, I can identify the most probable source of the noise. After a few years of mom-hood, you learn to distinguish various noises to figure out what is going on. I swear that I can even hear it when someone drops a single moist macaroni on the floor. You can hear the scratch scratch of scribbling on the wall and tell whether it is coming from a pencil (not the end of the world, I’ll get … Continue reading →

Six Additional Places to Leave Love Notes

Once upon an article, Heather wrote about where to leave I Love Yous. Such as on the bathroom mirror or the steering wheel of your love’s car. All wonderful suggestions worth trying if you haven’t already, but what if you have? Are you on the lookout for new places to leave love notes? If so, I have some suggestions for you below: 1. Doors We never shut our bedroom door, so if I want Wayne to find one here I’d have to shut it first. Perhaps you’d face the same dilemma in your household. But I’ve also been known to … Continue reading →

Home Week in Review: June 9 -15

Here are this week’s articles at a glance: Is your Home-life too busy for some Family Fun? Sometimes, even the good things in life can seem like another source of stress or feel like just another expense in growing pile of bills. It’s sad, but it happens. We just have so much going on that it can be overwhelming. It seems like there isn’t even time to relax and have a little fun. That’s when we have to get organized and make time. Dry Erase Door There are so many fun types of paint out there these days. These paints … Continue reading →

A Colored Chalkboard Paint Wall

Here is a fun idea for a child’s room, a home school room or even a family room or kitchen. You turn create a wall, a door or a piece of furniture into a chalkboard. And unlike the traditional black chalkboard wall, you can do this with a color. Using a colored chalkboard wall is creative, fun and won’t change your color scheme. In fact, you won’t be able to tell the difference between a “normal” wall and your chalkboard wall, until you start writing on it! Kids will be delighted that they are being allowed to doodle, draw and … Continue reading →

More Spring Cleaning Tips

Ready to do some spring cleaning? Here is a round up of tips and tricks that you can use to make everything tidy in no time. Heel marks from rubber soled shoes can easily be removed by using a pencil eraser or an art gum eraser. The same trick works well for walls, too. Use a garden hose to rinse the outside of your house, removing cobwebs and dirt. You can also purchase cleaner that is made specifically to attach to a hose and be used for outside cleaning. An easy way to dust your blinds is by using a … Continue reading →

Refurbish Your Whiteboard

Don’t get rid of that whiteboard just because it has some hard to clean marks on it, from dry erase “ghosts” to permanent ink. You’ll find this quick tip to be all you need to have a whiteboard that looks like new again. Whiteboards are constantly turning up in the trash because they get old and dull. Build up from those dry erase markers finally gets to be too much. Even though the marks are supposed to erase completely, they never do, often leaving shadows or dry erase “powder.” Another pitfall that happens when using a white board is when … Continue reading →

Organize Your Mornings: Stick to the System

Okay, it’s time. The whole “make it up as we go” system of getting everyone ready and out the door in the morning just isn’t working. It’s definitely time to create a more organized system that will make mornings less chaotic. Gather your kids and your spouse or your roommates and work together to come up with a system that everyone can accept. When getting started, you might want to post a schedule. You can draw up a simple timeline on a dry erase board or a piece of poster board, or you can simply type it up on the … Continue reading →

Schedule Your Home Tasks

Home tasks are a big cause of stress for me. You know what I’m talking about. You have dishes, laundry, sweeping, vacuuming, mopping, dusting, cooking, meal clean up, and a lot more. The list just goes on and on, it always seems never ending. How am I supposed to get it all done? One of the biggest helps for me is that I have come to the realization that I don’t have to get it all done; at least not all at once. I don’t have to do the sweeping, mopping, vacuuming, laundry, dusting, and everything else done on the … Continue reading →