Sandra’s Story

Sandra Forbes was an increasingly frustrated mom who had a lot of dreams and ideas.  From the time of the birth of her first son it became increasingly evident that she had to stay organized in order to follow through on her dreams.  As each subsequent child was born it became harder and harder to [...]

Holiday Guests

I love the holidays.  I live a long way from family and I love it when it works out that family can come for the holidays. 
Here are some ways to prepare the house for those special holiday guests:
Prepare the guest room

Put fresh sheets on the bed
Have an easy to use alarm clock near the bed
Have an extra [...]

Put it where you use it

There would be a tendency to put my daughter’s hairbrush and detangling spray with her hair items in her room because that’s what the organizing books say.  If you read closely you will find that there is a rule that overrides putting like things together.  That rule is — put it where you use it. 
Ideally, [...]

Joy

As I played peek a boo with my 9month old son around the cereal boxes this morning I was reminded of the joy that life brings.  It is sheer joy that I see on the face of my son as I come to pick him out of his crib in the morning.  It isn’t just [...]

Where have all the scissors gone?

Can you relate?  It seems like no matter how many scissors you buy they never are around when you need them.  It is kind of like kids and dishes!
I digress….
The best solution to prevent scissors from walking away is to create a label and put it around the finger hole denoting where the scissors’ “home” [...]

Hurry Up!

As I was getting the kids ready to go to school this morning I was reminded of a comment a client made.  She was sharing with me her success at getting her kids ready for school and she didn’t have to say “Hurry Up!”
I thought I was doing really well this morning getting the kids [...]

Feeling overwhelmed?

Feeling overwhelmed?  DELEGATE
It is a basic but often overlooked principle that we have to keep in mind all of the time.
Tonight I was feeling a bit overwhelmed.  Dinner needed to be prepared, laundry needed to be folded, baby had to be changed and bathed and a water mess had to be cleaned up immediately. Ok…OK… [...]

VCR Tapes

There are some of us old hold outs that still use VCR tapes.  Most of my children’s movies are on VCR tapes.  What I am about to say about tapes is also applicable to DVDs.
I have found that the container is the key to whether the tapes come out one by one or by droves.  [...]

Disaster Averted

Yesterday, I spent over 7 hours on the phone with technical support.  I was having trouble with my computer and we decided that the best thing was to wipe out everything on the computer and bring it back to how it was when I bought it and then add back in my data. 
They were very [...]