Reality Based Structure and Systems (for the win!)
I was watching a YouTube video the other day over at the Daily Connoisseur entitled, Five Tips to an Efficient Home, and I was struck by one of Jennifer’s tips.
She advised that you treat your home as if it were a boutique hotel. She didn’t go into a whole lot of detail about how exactly to achieve this, but I thought the idea was so creative, and a great way to change your mindset in regards to how you view your home, and the time spent maintaining it.
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A home routine was a concept that I used to struggle with as a young mother. I didn’t just dislike the concept of a routine, I also struggled with implementation.
I swung from one extreme to the other. In the beginning, I was hopelessly paranoid about how a home routine might dampen the creativity of the day, and I didn’t want to be a robot mom.
Once I realized that routines give structure without being stifling, I ended up building a routine that looked too much like a schedule and ended up trying to function just like that robot mom I was avoiding.
I’m not sure if it was my young age (my journey into motherhood started at age 21), or if it’s just my personality in general. But I usually end up swinging to both extreme sides of an issue before finding a comfortable spot in the middle.
Are you struggling to find a happy medium for routines in your own home? Let me share with you a few tips for developing a flexible routine that gets the job done without taking the heart out of motherhood.
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If you are trying to curate a high quality capsule wardrobe, but you just aren’t sure where to start or what to choose, you are not alone.
So many women are ready to clear out their closets and start building a capsule wardrobe, but they already feel like they never have anything to wear with a full closet.
If this sounds like you, then you probably fall into one of three categories.
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Batch cooking is a practice that has saved my sanity when it comes to feeding my family. Even though I have a family that is more than three times the average size, the principles that I use can be helpful to any size family.
