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Finding Time When There’s No Time

Let’s assume I work 8 hours a day (which I do) and get 6 hours of sleep (which I don’t).  Let’s throw in another 2 hours for things like going to the bathroom, brushing teeth, and commuting.  For those of us who also have to drop off and pick up our kids at daycare, you [...]

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Toy Rotation Plan

We’ve been slowly amassing a hoard of toys for little M since he was born. Throw in the holidays and his birthday, and things were getting downright overwhelming. Before he was born I thought that we’d have a dozen or so toys for him at any given stage, and that I wouldn’t let toys overtake [...]

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Storing Toys the Montessori Way

This is a guest post by Kylie of How We Montessori. Maria Montessori believed that from birth children have a strong sense of order. She wrote that children need to see and experience order in the world so they can create order in their own minds. What that means for us as parents is that [...]

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Organizing Stuffed Animals

We’ve received a fair number of stuffed animals as gifts since Charlie was born, and we always stored them away in the closet since he never played with them. But in the past couple of months, Charlie has really started getting into his stuffed animals, so we often find them strewn about our apartment.We definitely [...]

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Home Management Binder

I’ve been wanting to create a Home Management Binder after seeing them all. over. Pinterest. A Home Management Binder contains documents like calendars, meal planners, and chore schedules that help keep your household running and organized. We’ve already created some printables that are perfect for a Home Management Binder (like our emergency contact sheet, important phone [...]

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Mommy Body: The Purge

When I was about 16 weeks pregnant with baby S, in a fit of total frustration because nothing fit and I had absolutely nothing to wear, I boxed up all my non-maternity clothing, removed shelves in my tiny closet and stacked five big totes all on one side. I was left with a selection of [...]

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Minimalism and Babies

The older I get, the more I feel an intense urge to purge unnecessary items. Every time I look around my house, I see clutter, clutter, and more clutter. Papa Y, once a champion hoarder, is slowly starting to see the light, too. For example, once he realized his dusty collection of Atari games will [...]

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