Category: organize
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Before and after: organizing our butler’s pantry
We are very blessed to have a large pantry off our living room and laundry room. If you’ve been reading here awhile, you know our current laundry room was once our kitchen and our current kitchen was once our dining room. Our pantry houses food, some coats and jackets, and cleaning supplies. It’s a multipurpose…
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School Planner Roundup
Maybe you’re a child of the digital age and you use your Apple calendar or your Google calendar. Maybe you’re like me and you’re a child of the digital age, but you prefer a paper agenda. Everyone made fun of me for using a paper calendar and paper lesson plan book, until Google crashed in…
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Back to school: organization tips that work
The new school year is fast approaching. At our house, we are trying to be as organized as possible before the school year starts. I have learned from experience that it is easy to GET organized, but so much harder to stay that way. Today, I’d like to share some tips for staying organized this…
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Housework Wednesdays: our fantastically modular mudroom (that only cost me $40)
You may recall that my mudroom/laundry room combo used to look like this: That large cabinet was actually a TV cabinet, but we used it to store cleaning supplies. Because our brooms and mops were all stored in the pantry, it really wasn’t ideal. The cabinet was also very large and bulky, and took up…
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Simplifying our life: finding our work-life balance
When I was a young beginning teacher, my mentor once asked me if there was anything with which I was struggling and needed help with. I responded that I was struggling with finding the balance between work, taking care of my family, housework, and extracurricular things. What’s interesting about this exchange is that my children…