Category: simplifying life
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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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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…
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Five travel essentials for a more organized, less-stressful trip
**This post contains affiliate links.** My family and I don’t travel often- at the most, we vacation in the mountains or at the beach twice a year, and then go to visit our family who lives out-of-state. This year, we have taken three out-of-state trips and two were for work. What I have learned throughout…
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“Spring” cleaning: a newly organized shed
Due to my work schedule, I don’t get to deep clean as often as I want. Don’t get me wrong, I keep a clean house, but I don’t have tons of time to do some of the deep cleaning tasks that require a little more elbow grease. Most people do spring cleaning, however, I do…
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Getting organized: Making life easier for the start of the school year
Both the girls and I have started back to school for this fall. While our school year is off to a pretty good start, there are some things I think we could improve upon. For instance, we have let our organization slide just a bit and it is beginning to frustrate me. I have always…
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