Marie Kondo Has “Given Up” on Tidying Up. Oh Marie, We’ve Been Waiting for You!
Dear, sweet, adorable, impossibly neat, put-together Marie Kondo, Pull up a stool to my kitchen counter, won't you, love? I've…
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Dear, sweet, adorable, impossibly neat, put-together Marie Kondo, Pull up a stool to my kitchen counter, won't you, love? I've…
Continue ReadingWe mothers spend a lot of time in the kitchen. Along with everything else on our plates we are often…
Continue ReadingTwo tiny keys sat on the kitchen counter of an otherwise empty house. To anyone else in the world, they…
Continue ReadingThis is my kitchen and dining area in all its unfinished glory. Just one project of many that I don’t…
Continue ReadingIt wasn’t what we had in mind—this 1914 house with one bathroom on a busy street but far from everything.…
Continue ReadingSome days, I wake up and walk around my house feeling my chest rise looking at the chaotic mess I…
Continue ReadingMy house screams at me. It screams to clear off the kitchen counters, to put away the clean clothes, to…
Continue ReadingYesterday, we lived in a house that was too big for us, filled with my dreams of our house being…
Continue ReadingI am a homemaker. When I fill out paperwork for the dentist, the pediatrician, or our kids’ school program, that’s…
Continue ReadingI saw a lady struggling at the park. She was bandaging a skinned-up knee on one child while another was…
Continue ReadingAll the boxes had been packed. All the cleaning had been done. All the paperwork had been signed. We were…
Continue ReadingEvery evening before I turn in to go to bed, I always take a few minutes to do a quiet…
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