Life...Your Way

Is being more efficient, organized and productive on your goal-list for 2012? Awesome! Don’t want to spend dollars to get your time back? Even better! Here are 5 seriously effective but totally free tools to help you use your time in an intentional and purposeful way and not be overwhelmed with the busyness of life. [...]

Last week I broke a Washington Redskins glass that had been passed down to us after my grandfather died. Although we do use the glasses regularly, we’re extremely careful with them, and we had made it seven years without breaking one….until I knocked it off the shelf. It’s ironic because I already had this post [...]

I love the term home manager because I think it is a good reminder that the tasks involved with running a home — cleaning, meal planning, shopping, organizing, scheduling, etc. — require effort and commitment. Jamie from Steady Mom refers to this concept as “professional motherhood” in her book, Steady Days, and Tsh from Simple [...]

December of 2008 was one of the hardest months of my life. The end of the month found me curled up on the couch on Christmas day, emotionally and physically exhausted in the wake of three weeks of the stomach flu (including an ER trip for Sean), the death of a family friend and then [...]

I received an email from Karina yesterday with this question: Have you done anything about how to organize library books and due dates to avoid late fees? I thought I had a system… was late on 2 videos last week (I knew that) and then discovered that I was ALSO late on about 12 books! [...]

My mother likes to tell the story of my kindergarten report cards. Each one that was sent home said, “Michelle is a good student who learns well but she has trouble cleaning up after herself.” Unfortunately, it was true, and it still is to some extent. I like to start things, spread out all my [...]

We start the New Year late around here. My daughter’s birthday is the 5th of January; so, with her birthday party sometime that first week or second weekend, I’m usually just sticking my head out of “the holidays” in the middle of January! True to form, this past week, our first week back to school [...]