Well, I went to write my October Recap and realized that I never wrote my September Recap! I can't have that!! I have not missed a single other month. I was going to attempt to combine Sept and Oct but as soon as I started I was like, nope. Who am I kidding. I don't… Continue reading September 2025 Recap
Welp, it's September 20th and I'm just getting around to doing my August recap. Obviously I could skip it, BUT doing it makes 8/8 so far on monthly recaps this year! So I can't break the streak. 😉 Of course the downfall to writing it 20 days after the month ends is that now I… Continue reading August 2025 Recap
When I went to write a title, I realized the things on my mind today are basically a continuation of my last post: Fall is here, back to school part 2, money tracking, etc. I don't really have much to add about school, but I have more fall and more money tracking! 🙂 Fall Decor....… Continue reading More early fall, more money tracking
Re-Entry: We got home Sunday night around 8:30 p.m. before a full work week, which is obviously the IDEAL way to transition back from vacation to regular life. Ha. We have had a couple trips lately where we actually had an appropriate transition time factored in, and I will say, it was very nice. BUT,… Continue reading Decent re-entry, back to school grey zone, car + dog updates, etc.
I peeked back in my "Blog Ideas" folder in Google Keep and saw I had once jotted down that I wanted to talk about Vertical Ownership regarding household responsibilities (aka "who does what"). I'll keep this specific to between me and Ivan, not counting stuff the boys help out with. IVAN: -cell phone related stuff-… Continue reading Vertical ownership
Decluttering success I've (finally) made some decent recent progress in some house decluttering projects, after feeling very stalled out for a while there. Last fall I made a Google Keep label called "House - TO DO LIST", and then made a separate note for each area of our house. I literally went to each room… Continue reading Forward progress, slowly
Hello hello! Happy Monday. This was a largely very nice weekend- shockingly "open", for our standards. We had no out of town visitors, Asher did not have swim practice, no one played soccer. The only events were a birthday party Asher attended on Fri night (but the Birthday Mom joyfully both picked him up and… Continue reading Weekend accomplishments/ why don’t I feel relaxed?
These last few weeks we've been trying to weed out some of the boys' old things. Specifically, jackets. We have a rather large stockpile of very nice but now too small coats and jackets that have been accumulating in our basement closet. Some are dressier styles, some are fleeces, some are 3-in-1 winter jackets, etc.… Continue reading Selling stuff and a nice message
Weekend: Asher was away this weekend (he's still away in Florida at swim camp- it's going great!) which felt weird! This weekend was probably my first WIDE OPEN weekend in forever- no soccer games or kids events of any kind! Ethan worked 7-3 both days, so with Asher gone, this was extra weird! I was… Continue reading Weekend + clothes + closet app
Not sure why I sometimes find it oddly therapeutic to share my to-do list with the world, but, I do. 🙂 With our Mexico trip coming up relatively soon, I'm feeling a little pressure to make sure I have my back-to-school ducks in a row before we go. When we get back, it will be… Continue reading To do list & Mexico planning
GRATEFUL KAE 