Self Challenge: I’m doing it, kinda sorta

So the Self Challenge has started, and I’m mostly just paying attention to it, but not really doing it. It somehow seems like way too much work, keeping meticulous track of calories in and calories out. I’m doing a kind of free-form version of it, which is...

Ideas wanted for coupon organization system

I like to clip coupons. It feels very satisfying to find a coupon for a product we actually use. So I cut out the coupon, and I put it into a little bin in my kitchen. Sometimes, before I go shopping, I go through the bin to see if there are any coupons for the things...

Clutter Queen Indeed

You know what happens if you see a tempting-looking prize package in a magazine, and all you have to do is mail in a tip about how to set small goals, and you’ve maybe had a glass of wine and it’s 10:00 p.m.? You write up an email and send it in, and then...

“Mom” business cards

This is an idea I think I would have written off as cheesy not too long ago, but since I saw the Mommy Business Cards at Many Little Blessings, I’ve run into about six situations where they’d come in handy. Today, after telling, and respelling, my email...

Transported to Utah via Target

Why, it was just yesterday that I was talking about pretend catalog shoots, and then a little trip to Target sent me right down that road once again. (The Target trip was mostly to get glue for reattaching the M key to my keyboard, which jumped ship, and now is...

New Recommended Books Page

The other day I was trying to find my review of Dig Dig Digging (Eli is getting it for his birthday next week, shhhh!), and I discovered that, if you click on the  “Children’s Book of the Week” category, you get the ten most recent posts, but then...