Tag: list-it tuesday

  • 8 Practical Ways to Simplify Life

    8 Practical Ways to Simplify Life

    At the beginning of the year, I decided to simplify life in order to focus on what’s important. Soon after, we added two little people to the household, which meant my need to simplify (for sanity purposes) increased exponentially! Practical ways we’ve simplified our household: 1 – Simpler yard maintenance. I wanted a cottage-style garden…

  • 10 Things About Me

    10 Things About Me

    Because my brain (and maybe yours) needs a little not-too-strenuous summer fun, and because I’m sure you’ve just been itching {ha!} to know weird and obscure facts about me, I now present: 10 facts you won’t find on my “About” page: 1) I love veggies. As in, I’m ridiculously fond of them: Home grown tomatoes;…

  • 10 Things that Make My Day

    10 Things that Make My Day

    Top 10 {randomly ordered} things that make my day: 1 – Peaceful times in the day when all the kids are happily occupied. Lately, one of the best times for this has been when big sis Kathryn gets out the LEGOs and helps the littles build and play with them. 2 – An organized closet….

  • Top 10 Holiday-Related Things on My Mind

    I’m voting today. I’m hopeful the lines won’t be long since just about everyone else I know took advantage of early voting. We’ll see how that goes. In the meantime, here’s thinking of the rapidly-approaching holidays! Top Ten Holiday-Related Things on my mind: I don’t like Halloween: the candy, the glamorization of evil and scary…

  • An ode to my new {used} minivan

    So… I now have a minivan. While I’ve always thought they’re great for practicality, I never really planned to own one. But now I do. I’ve been joking on twitter that I’m going to need to die my hair purple or something to counteract the potential frump factor of the minivan. {Did I succeed in…