Category: Happy at Home

This is the way we pack (and clean) our clothes

Tim is a master at packing. I lay everything out on the bed that we need to take and he carefully organizes each person's clothing into packing cubes (Never heard of them? If you like to travel, you want them). You can even color-coordinate them for each member of the family. Our San Diego packing […]

A Brief History of Maytag

We read through the Little House series last year (pure magic, by the way!) and now I often think of Charles and Caroline Ingalls. Out on the brave frontier - building house after house, lovingly by hand, as they moved west. Tim almost always snuck in as I read aloud to the girls at bedtime, […]

Back-to-School Laminating Projects with Fellowes

Homeschooling has officially begun in our house. You may be wondering how we manage to run a home business, a home school, and a home? Get back to me in about a year and I'll let you know. ;) Our 5-year-old recently painted a duck with her grandma. We decided to make it into a […]

Pleased to be a Maytag Laundry Ambassador

Here's the rundown on laundry in our house. FREQUENCY: 1 load per day or a few loads every other day DETERGENT: Tide Original or Tide Sport BLEACH: Rarely - but we do bleach our white sheets from time-to-time DRYER SHEETS: None CHIEF WASHER: Tim CHIEF FOLDER AND PUTTER-AWAYER: That would be me. Mom Central recently […]

Camp Sleep-Too-Little

What do you get when you combine a tent, a 17-month-old, a 3-year-old, a lot of friends, and a beautiful mountaintop? If you answered, "NO SLEEP," you're right. If you answered, "A REALLY GOOD TIME," you are also right. Our church has a yearly tradition where we cancel our "normal" services and have a service […]

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