Tips + Tricks

If you know me personally, I think it would be fairly easy for you to assume that Halloween is one of my favorite holidays, but I’ll let you in on a little secret: it's not! I am a WOO...

Raise your hand if you are forever looking for the other mitten that matches the one your child is demanding to wear. Or maybe you have a pile of artwork and whatever gets sent home from school that your...

We bought our house almost nine years ago. With it came a whole lot of late 90s cherry and oak wood and a whole lot of builder grade fixtures. The master plan was to update it; it's taken us...

If you’ve flown recently or have even looked at the prices of flights, you know the total cost is a punch to the gut. Struggling with the reality of the cost to fly our family of six from the...

Love them or leave them, we’re getting close to Elf on the Shelf season, and I, for one am firmly in the love camp. When my son was 2, I was clued in to Elf on the Shelf and I...

With school back in session, moms want two things: to feel like our kids are getting the best education we can give them and... to take a break. We're vigilant about providing as many opportunities for our children as we...

My daughter and I recently started a new habit that we both enjoy. We found a playlist on Spotify that has affirmations about gratitude and self-love.  You’ll often find the practice of saying affirmations in a yoga or meditation practice....

As the weather warms up here in Northern Minnesota and summer finally arrives I start thinking of how to up my iced coffee game. We all know you can go to most coffee shops and get a delicious iced...

I’ve minimized my sock drawer, twice. I've burned through the stack of books I was planning to reading “someday” and now that I am juggling distance learning and working from home off of nothing more than a hotspot, my...

For more than sixteen years, the week after Thanksgiving has traditionally seen my family and I piling down into the basement to search for the box that houses our fake Christmas tree for 90 percent of the year. I...