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Thanksgiving Checklists

I wrote out several articles that detailed my entire Thanksgiving routine last year. Maybe some of you might find them helpful now. It took me several years of writing down everything and then doing a written follow-up sheet each year before I was able to get this down so everything worked well for us. One [...] Read more »

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Back To School – The Paper Stacks

This week has been crazy! The Little Guy has now finished his first week of real school. He did very well and really enjoys it. Yay! ! This has been a BIG transition for both of us. Honestly, I think he has taken it in stride better than I have. There were a lot of [...] Read more »

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School Room Update

Is anyone curious about the progress in my little school room? I’ll give you an update today on the clean up then we will get to the fun stuff! The next articles will be all about the projects that I am putting together to organize the room for learning for him, year long manageability for [...] Read more »

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Make A Launch Pad

Okay. I know you have heard this one before, but I can not NOT mention it. Especially when we are talking about kids and getting back to school. Every home needs a launch pad. It is just a simple place where you put everything so it is ready to go out the door as you [...] Read more »

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Working Toward Back To School – The Daily Routine

I don’t know about you, but I think one of the cruelest parts of going back to school is that it comes just after I have really settled in to living without a watch for a good portion of the day. In Summer a large portion of activities are time flexible. To successfully get through [...] Read more »

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Working Toward Back to School – List and Gather Day

There are so many little details you need to take care of to prepare to go back to school. There are things you need to do. There are things you need to find or buy. There are appointments to be made. Then, whew, that first day of school arrives. Now you will be deluged with [...] Read more »

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Working Toward Back To School. I’m In A Pickle!

Are you ready to send the kids back to school? I’m not. Yet. I have a bit of a disaster on my hands and I thought I would share ALL of the ugly specifics with you over the next couple of weeks as I belatedly pull my act together to get ready for the school [...] Read more »

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Menu Planning – Part 1

239 menu planning by jen_maiser on flickr

Menu planning is one of the easiest ways to take a mountain of little stresses off of your back. Every day, that will be one less thing. You will no longer have to hassle with going to the refrigerator or pantry trying to figure out what you have available to cook. You will no longer [...] Read more »

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Spring and Summer Preparation

Last Fall I gave you full details of my Fall Maintenance and Winter Preparation plan. I have a permanent to-do scheduled for every October 1st. I pull out my Fall and Winter Notebook. There are several fall maintenance chores that should be done each year to get prepared for winter and I keep a listing [...] Read more »

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Grocery Shopping Beyond the Spare

The simple steps to making grocery shopping a five minute frugal breeze. Read more »

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A Well Stocked Pantry and Grocery Lists

To round off the Kitchen Series, I want to talk about menu-planning and grocery shopping a bit. It seemed like a good time to talk about stocking the pantry for those who are looking for the information. Read more »

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