Bad Housekeeping: A Mom’s Guide to Surviving the Chaos

June 22, 2017 Laura

Motherhood can get messy. Here are some tips for managing your home when it seems out of control!

Motherhood is messy. In all the ways, motherhood is messy. It makes a mess of our emotions, our expectations and our home. These tiny humans enter our lives and hearts and they challenge us every day to grow and give and bend. And although we’re totally exhausted, we wouldn’t have it any other way. Except maybe it would be nice to not have so much laundry. Seriously, where does it all come from?!

And we are busy. Modern moms are so busy. Many of us work outside the home, we often don’t have help in the form of nearby relatives and our communities are so spread out that we are constantly driving long distances to activities. At the end of the day, something’s gotta give and my vote’s on the housework. After all, life’s too short to fold fitted sheets.

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The Essential Guide to Preparing for a Cake Smash

June 12, 2017 Laura

Small snacks like cheerios stuck in the icing may entice your hesitant little one to start smashing!

If you’ve been planning to schedule a Cake Smash photo shoot for your little one’s first birthday, then you’ve come to the right place. You MUST read this guide and print out the checklist to ensure a stress-free session and adorable pictures!

A first birthday is an emotional milestone for mama and babe and it’s a time you’ll want to remember! There are so many great ideas out there for insanely cute cake smash themes, props and styles. But have you taken the time to think about the logistics of planning a potentially complex photo session when the main character may decide to be uncooperative?

Here are some tips to consider that will help enormously with scoring a successful shoot.

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The ONE thing I use that keeps my kids calm in the car

May 13, 2017 Laura

Are you looking for an EASY way to maintain peace between your children while in the car? Try my trick!

Picture this: You’ve been working hard all day, you’re hungry and it’s time to pick up the kids. You’ve got 2+ kids in the car, everyone is irritable and tired and one of them dares to inch his little finger across the imaginary line of division between their carseats. The screaming begins. The older one grabs the little one’s blankie and tosses it on the (filthy) car floor. Little one starts bawling. Older one won’t apologize or cooperate. You’ve got your arm painfully twisted behind your seat grasping desperately for a blankie you can’t reach while tossing goldfish crackers at the both of them in an attempt to quiet the hollering. Also you’re trying to navigate rush hour traffic and there’s no way you can pull over and count to 10. You start losing your (fragile) cool. Does this sound familiar?

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How to Avoid Getting Overwhelmed by Housework

April 7, 2017 Laura

Follow these simple housework tips when you're feeling totally overwhelmed by the workload. Free decluttering printable to help simplify the housework. Avoid feeling overwhelmed by housework by implementing these simple tips!

We are a unique generation of Moms. We are often isolated from family and wrestling with our desire to be both amazing homemakers and fulfilled either creatively or professionally.

We were constantly told as children that we can be and do anything we want. Yet we are not so far from the generation of our mothers and grandmothers who stayed home and created a beautiful family life often with the help of relatives who lived nearby.

We are conflicted.

At the very centre of that conflict is our home. It’s where we do daily battle. It’s where life catches up with us and we give ourselves a hard time for not ‘having it all together’.

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Moms Don’t Get Sick Days. Eight Tips for Surviving Illness + Children

March 31, 2017 Laura

It's no secret that life doesn't stop just because Mom's got a cold. So here are 8 tips to help manage family life + sickness.

Surprise! When you’re a mom you can’t call in sick! There’s no one to call because you are the boss. (In theory, the kids might not know that part). If you’re a stay at home mom or a work from home mom then you know all about this. The workload doesn’t change but your ability to get off the couch is drastically reduced. It’s one of those ‘joys’ of parenthood.

As with any other major disaster, the key to survival is to be prepared. Here are 8 tips to help you get through the day when you feel like you’ve been run over by a bus.

1. Keep a stash of paper plates and plastic cups on hand for emergency use. You don’t want to be doing dishes, but chances are if you don’t wash them then they pile up and up on your counters until the stack is blocking access to the Cheerios box. Forget that. Do yourself a favour and use the disposable dinnerware.

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