Tips + Tricks

We've all been there. It's 8 o'clock on a school day and you need to get the kids out the door, but you've just realized that you forgot to pack lunches. You scramble, you improvise and you manage to...

If you're like me, you've experienced moments of pure joy, extreme sadness, and basically every other emotion in between, sometimes all within the same day throughout this pandemic parenting period. (My sister refers to this as the "coronacoaster".) Back in...

I'm one of the many, many people who jumped on the houseplant bandwagon during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. I'm honestly surprised I didn't get on board sooner. My husband and I own a lawn and landscaping company,...

Christmas is the “Most Wonderful Time of The Year”, right? What if it isn’t really so wonderful in your family? What if your heart is aching for someone to celebrate with, yet your family is all alone this year? It might be...

Someone once told me when I was pregnant to start traveling with our child when she was young so she would learn to do great with long distances in the car or airplane. That was pretty easy for us:...

Last Spring, my husband accepted a new job in a new town. We knew that ultimately our family would be following with a move, instead of him commuting every day. All of this news came when I was 9...

Teacher Appreciation Week is THIS WEEK! Are you ready? I don't know about you, but spring is such a busy time and buying or creating a great, really cute, really wanted gift can be stressful for me. I will admit that I...

Happy 2018!  Wait, what?! Where did 2017 go? What about all those stinking resolutions/goals/one words/themes I made 12 months ago and abandoned 12 days into it?!  Anybody else feeling whip-lashed by father time?  Well I'm here to bring you some comfort as...

With everyone on high alert and preparing to #flattenthecurve by way of self-quarantine, I've taken this opportunity to clean out rather than stock up. In general, we mamas know the drill come spring! Something inside us stirs, and we...

A few months ago I was sprucing up a random room in our house, probably the laundry room, and my husband laughed and said, "Babe, not every room in the house has to look like it belongs in a...

School's out for summer! I can't believe we made it to summer! I'm ready to lay by the pool and forget all my worries from this school year. My girl is ready for zero homework, late nights, and zero responsibilities! But...

Ohhh garage sale season.  I'm not sure garage sales ever truly go away since Oklahoma weather is all over the place and we can have 80 degree days in February, but for me, May through September is prime time...