8 Ways to Eat Organic on a Budget

8 Ways to Eat Organic on a Budget

How to Eat Organic on a Budget

Have you ever wished you could feed your family organic foods, but when you check out the price tags your eyes pop out of your head? Yeah, me, too. So I decided to figure out some ways to feed my family of seven organic foods on a tight budget. Here’s what I found out:

Top 10 Organizing Tools for 2016

Top 10 Organizing Tools for 2016

Top 10 Organizing Products for 2016

In November we asked our organizers to tell us their top organizing tool for 2016 and explain why they recommended it to clients. I have included their picks in my Top 10 for 2016 along with my personal favorites.

How to Help Others During the Holidays

Ideas for Helping Others During the Holidays

As the holidays approach, parents are busy planning for the time off, meals, and fun. Families are thinking about how to spend their time. Most families enjoy an array of delicious food with choices like turkey or ham (or both), cake or pie, stuffing, rolls, etc. For other families, there may not be as many choices because personal challenges have limited their ability and opportunities for holiday fun.

How Does Screen Time Affect Kids Sleep?

Screen Time and Our Kids

How does Screen Time and the Use of Technology Affect our Children’s Sleep and Health?

Screens are ubiquitous in our lives and our kids’ lives.  They are abundant and we use gadgets without realizing that some of them even have screens.  In my house we have 2 TV’s, 2 tablets, an e-book reader, 2 cell phones, 2 iPods, 2 laptops and 2 monitors for our desktop.  That’s a total of 13 screens for just a 3 person household!!

Our children, from the time they are born, are surrounded by screens, despite our best efforts to curb their use and interaction with them until they are at an appropriate age.  As they get older, they start collecting their own set of devices – hand held video games, computer games etc.  So how does screen time affect our children’s well-being? How does it affect their health and mental well-being?

Stay at Home Moms, Working Dads…finding the balance

Finding balance to make a happy family

Setting Expectations and Compromising to Find Balance

Stay at home moms often express frustration with husbands who don’t or won’t help around the house. Often dad is happy to play with the kids, but wants a break from the “Honey Do” list after working all week. What they forget is that stay at home moms are never off duty and when hubby is off, she wants to have a break, even if that break is just going to the grocery store alone. Young families have to learn to find a balance