….And never spend another hour sorting through hundreds of socks, trying to find the match. I discovered a laundry tip on Pinterest recently that completely changed my life. How I wish that I would have started doing this years ago! Pin It The idea is simple: Buy each person in your family a simple mesh [...]

I go through waves. Sometimes I love to cook nice dinners (I really am a good cook, I promise). But other times (the last few months, especially) I don’t want to be bothered to spend two hours in the kitchen getting dinner ready. My biggest problem lately is my lack of planning. I hardly even [...]

With five kids and two adults in the house, I could spend most of my day, every day, doing laundry. The saddest part of that statement is that it is not an exaggeration. It’s hard to comprehend the shear amount of clothes, towels, sheets, socks (etc, etc) that we go through, but I figure it’s [...]

It’s only the 5th day of the year, and already I feel like I’ve talked quite a bit about seeking and achieving balance. I suppose it has just been on my mind. So it didn’t surprise me when the title of this Momversation video jumped out at me this morning. (No, I didn’t scream at [...]

This past week (was it really only a few days longer than a week?!) was the best vacation I’ve had in a long time. Today was the first time in who knows how long since I’ve been sad to see my kids start back to school. Typically, I am eager for all of us to [...]

One of my kids’ favorite holiday and birthday gifts is always cash, but it’s interesting to observe each of my five kids handling their cash gifts totally differently. Just this past week, each of my kids received a rather substantial amount of money from family members (and in the case of my oldest daughter, some [...]

There is one truth that you can be absolutely 100% sure of in a house of seven: There will always be laundry. Just when you think you’re getting caught up, there’s another basket-full ready to be washed. The laundry in a household with 5 children is literally never-ending. So I know laundry. I also know [...]

It has been nearly two weeks since my trip to New York City and I still haven’t even scratched the surface of the amazing opportunity that it was to be in New York at Christmas with Disney/Dreamworks and a group of talented bloggers. The day after our group attended the world premiere of Steven Spielberg’s [...]

Do you give your children an allowance? Whether or not to give children an allowance – and then how much to give them – is a topic that I often hear discussed among parents both on and off line. Over the years, my husband and I have gone back and forth, and I hate to [...]

What’s your favorite tip for raising a healthy baby? When my first daughter was born, there was so much about being a mother and raising a child that I was completely and utterly clueless about. I had a good example to follow – my mom was (and still is) a fabulous mother. I knew what [...]