Let’s set the stage here for a moment.  We all have the same amount of time in the day, right? 24 hours at our disposal, but it can feel like we need our days to be 48 hours long!  Sometimes we look at our friends, family or social media and see that others seem to get so much more done than you feel you do. I want to be super clear on this, what you see online versus reality is completely different. You can’t see what’s not in the picture, you don’t know if ...

Let me give you a super short introduction.I’m Tammy, a busy wife and mom just like you with a household to manage. For most of my kids infant to tween years I experienced debilitating self doubt in how I managed all the things at home and work because of the perfection our society seems to expect of us as moms. After recognizing that my home wasn’t the peaceful home I wanted it to be because I was pursuing perfection, I began to research and make changes and I’m here to help ...

Have you seen the pictures of pantries where everything is so neat and organized. The cereal is in clear containers, there are cute baskets lined up on the shelves with beautifully scripted labels? I’m sure you have. They do look really nice, don’t they?  Those pictures, dare I say, of perfection aren’t what we should be chasing. They just aren’t functional. Let’s walk through it once. You get home from the grocery store, you’re putting the groceries ...

Planning is one key element to being productive and to getting more done in less time. To truly master weekly planning and create a peaceful home in the process, you’ll not only plan out the week ahead, but you’ll review the prior week. You’ll look back at how things went the prior week and look ahead to the upcoming week. You utilize what you learn from the past and incorporate it into the future. When you do this consistently, it takes less and less time each week and you ...

How your closet works for you or doesn’t work for you can truly make or break your day. When you start your day off struggling to get dressed, well, that’s just an irritation you don’t need. I know you’ve been dealing with this for awhile and I want to give you some quick hitting tips that will make a difference today. Tips that will simplify your life today. Plus as a bonus, I’m going to share with you the best way to organize your closet and it does not include ...

3 straight forward steps to organize kitchen cabinets I want you to take this in bite size pieces. When you tackle too big of a project at once, you wind up on the hamster wheel of home organizing. That’s when you organize the same spaces over and over again because in our culture how to keep things organized in the heat of the moment isn’t really discussed. But that is the focus. Sustaining the work that we do. If you start with that in mind and keep sustainability in mind ...

Download a free organizing checklist! What is a utility room exactly? It’s the space in your home where things like the furnace and water heater are. Oftentimes there’s unused space in these rooms. Our utility room is in the basement. It houses our furnace, water softener, water heater and chest freezer. It also has a door that goes up to the garage and the opening under the stairs going to the main level of our home. It’s unfinished, meaning the floor is just concrete and ...

A place for everything and everything in its place... I’m sure you’ve heard the saying a place for everything and everything in its place. That would certainly be ideal wouldn’t it?  We’ve just come out of the holiday season and if you’re like me you have gifts you’ve received that simply do not have a home. My husband got me a new crock-pot which was very much needed. We have an old crock-pot that I thought we could just throw away, but my husband ...

The holiday season is over, we’re embarking on the new year. It’s time to get everything cleaned up and prepared for a fresh start, right? The tree is still up, wrapping paper is everywhere, empty boxes and everyone is playing with their new things, but you know it all has to get cleaned up.  You have to find places for the new things, you have to undecorate the tree - I don’t think that’s a word! Undecorate? Put the tree into storage or dispose of it. Put the ...

Have you enjoyed the holiday season so far? Christmas is just around the corner and if I’m completely honest with you this holiday season has not been one of the best. It’s been this way on and off over the years. Perfectionism runs rampant and when I have to step outside the walls of my home it’s easy for me to feel judged. Instead of going with the flow next year, you can reflect on how the holiday season has gone so far and decide now how you want things to be next year. In this episode you learn why it’s ok to make a change and how to plan for a better holiday next year.