#tackletuesday

Count it as joy.

Tour Our Home and See How Our Pantry Is Looking Now

Well, my mind & body has hit major flare zone…I think I’ve slept more in the last 4-5 days than I’ve slept all year. I knew it was coming. Got up around 12:30 today. The last couple of months has been busy – by choice. If you’ve been following along this Great Purge of ours, you can possibly imagine why. Here’s what’s different this time: (more…)

How to Organize Your Meals for the Week: Kits or Self Prep

We’ve been using meal kits for a couple of months now – we’ve tried two different companies, Hello Fresh, and EveryPlate. We’ll talk more in depth about those in a future post – still testing ;). The thing is though, unless you can keep all of the ingredients organized, you’re still going to have a ‘chasing your own tale’ kind of dinner experience. What to do? What to do? Let’s talk about how…

The Great Purge Update!

Happy Tuesday! We’ve been tackling pretty much EVErYTHING for the last few days! Today, we had to have some septic system work done – that was slightly anxiety producing – but we can’t change what’s inevitable, right? Luckily, it turned out to be best case scenario – had some lines cleared etc…I planted the flowers I picked up over the weekend, and we’ve been flipping rooms like crazy people! If…

What Can You Accomplish in a Microwave Minute?

Time. We never seem to have enough of it. It moves faster and faster the older we get. Just this morning, in fact, I kissed my daughter goodbye as she left for school and said, ‘I’ll see you soon!’. Her reply? ‘Well, not soon, but later…’ How different are the perspectives of a child and a, um…’mature adult’! I’m not sure where I first heard the term ‘Microwave Minute’, but it’s something…

Simple Blog Series Hack for the Easily Distracted Writer

If you’re like me, you hate paper notes…I’ll make list after list, note after note, even notebook after notebook with the best of intentions…and then I just end up with piles and piles of papers and have no idea where the one is that I want, or get squirreled by other notes with a random word – and I have no idea why I wrote that word! Let’s talking about having a series for you blog and one…

How to Make a Redbox Valentine Box

There are certain projects I can always count on my husband tackling for me throughout the year – I call it ‘bonding time’ – but, the bottom line for me is that I don’t have to even THINK about unless they need supplies that they know I already have. Otherwise, the do all the planning, creating, shopping, and putting together of the things. He’s built several valentine boxes, a couple of fun cars…

Things to Tackle, Places to Go, Hair to Wash.

It was just that kind day. There was so much to tend today, just random things that weren’t really optional… School assignments needed to be gone over to make sure everything was completed before we return to a hybrid model tomorrow. Errands needed to be run and seen to completion. Dinner needed to be prepped – we’ve been eating out WAY too much lately. I needed a shower, and my hair…well…you…