I LOVE the month of October, and this October was no exception. I had a great birthday weekend, a fabulous fall couples trip to Lake Geneva, insanely perfect weather.... and also a lot of work stress, illness, hectic weeks and big emotions. I basically crawled to the finish line of October this past week. November… Continue reading New month, new energy! And tell me about your grocery shopping habits.
Hello! Things have been a little crazy hence the radio silence on the blog. 🙂 This summer has been full of so many great and fun things and ALSO has been a lot! big family vacation several weekends and days full of helping my parents move/ move-related activities a spontaneous (amazing!) long weekend to see… Continue reading Catch up + household calamity edition
We're already over halfway through Month 1 of 2026 (shakes head in disbelief). Here we were ringing in the new year just a mere minute ago, and now the year is almost 5% over already. There's no time like the present then to share my goals from my 4th and final domain for 2026: Household… Continue reading Household Goals 2026
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?
