We have a not-so-nice name for a certain time of the day. I bet you do, too. It’s that time when everybody starts arriving home at the end of their day, and life is suddenly a pressure cooker! Homework, chores, dinner-prep, getting someone somewhere…it all has to happen NOW. We call it “the witching hours”. […]
House and Home
Easy Ways to Welcome Fall
Hooray for the First Day of Fall! One of my favorite days of the year! It ranks up there with Christmas for me. No joke — I grew up in Texas, where the summers were hot, humid, and seemed to go on forever. So the day that said the planet officially HAD to start giving […]
How to Be a Chocolate Chip
You know I love all holidays – big or small throughout the year. I found out National Chocolate Chip Day was celebrated earlier this Spring. (Now, that’s a holiday I can happily celebrate!) Did you know, in addition to being yummy, the little chocolate chip can teach us life lessons? There’s a great little book […]
Self-Care September: How to Build Resilience
We’re wrapping up Self-Care September with our last “R” of the 3 R’s to help us get through difficult times. RESILIENCE. Resilience is the ability to bounce back – having the capacity to respond and even prosper despite all life’s demands. As someone who’s seen her fair share of stressful experiences, I can tell you […]
Self-Care September: Why Routines are Important
The second “R” to help navigate us through difficult times is ROUTINES. A routine is the usual series of things that you do at a particular time, and the practice of regularly doing those things. Routines are something that we have some control over and they help make our homes feel safer and calmer – […]