Mother’s Day is always the second Sunday of May. This year, it’s May 12—a little later than you might have expected. But that’s no reason to procrastinate your gifts for the mothers in your life. You’re sure to remember your wife, your mother, and mother-in-law, but you may also choose to do something special for …
Create a Yard Sale Game Plan!
March 14, 2013The month of March can mean different things to different people. For sports fans it is all about March Madness, and for fans of warm weather it is about the first day of spring. However, for fans of organization like me, a Professional Organizer, it is the start of yard sale season and the time …
On-The-Wall Organizing
February 28, 2013If you ever attend a junior high school dance, you’ll learn a lot about organizing. First: People sort automatically. The “popular” girls will be huddled in a corner away from the speakers giggling over their shoulders. The athletic boys will have their own section with a convenient wall to hold them up while they pose. …
Finding a Work/Life Balance
January 29, 2013Have you ever had the nagging feeling that you should be doing something else? It might come when you’re looking at family pictures on Facebook during work hours, or when your kids call you late in the evening and ask you when you’re coming home. Finding the right work/life balance can be one of the …
7 Things To Do With Your Family Over Winter Break
December 12, 2012With so many demands on our time, it’s a rare day indeed when we can devote a few hours simply to laughter and conversation with the people we love. Winter break is the perfect time to do just that. So now that you have the time, what do you do? Here are a few ideas. …
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7 Things To Do With Your Family Over Winter Break
December 12, 2012With so many demands on our time, it’s a rare day indeed when we can devote a few hours simply to laughter and conversation with the people we love. Winter break is the perfect time to do just that. So now that you have the time, what do you do? Here are a few ideas. …
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Simplifying December
November 28, 2012December is a month to spend with family. Sometimes though, it’s a month spent as your family’s air traffic controller, keeping track of holiday parties, school concerts, classroom treat days, and family traditions. Here are five tips to help you simplify your December and reclaim some quality time with your family. 1. Organize Your Holiday …
Simplifying December
November 28, 2012December is a month to spend with family. Sometimes though, it’s a month spent as your family’s air traffic controller, keeping track of holiday parties, school concerts, classroom treat days, and family traditions. Here are five tips to help you simplify your December and reclaim some quality time with your family. 1. Organize Your Holiday …
Make Time For Family Traditions
November 19, 2012In the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, it’s all too easy to crowd your schedule with school events and holiday party preparations. As you make your plans, make sure to include some unstructured time for your family to have fun and create new traditions. Your spontaneous gingerbread house might end up looking like …
Family Traditions – Anticipating the Holidays
November 9, 2012In the culinary world, it’s well known that presentation is just as important as taste. The best meal in the world just doesn’t taste the same if it’s all jumbled up in a Tupperware container. Holidays are the same way – how you present them in the weeks leading up to them plays a large …
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Family Traditions – Anticipating the Holidays
November 9, 2012In the culinary world, it’s well known that presentation is just as important as taste. The best meal in the world just doesn’t taste the same if it’s all jumbled up in a Tupperware container. Holidays are the same way – how you present them in the weeks leading up to them plays a large …
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Trick Your Kids Into Earning Their Treats!
October 19, 2012By Naomi Cook You will see lots of ghosts, princesses and superheroes roaming around your neighborhood on October 31st, but do you see lots of clutter around your home every day of the year? Add piles of candy into the mix and the clutter may just end up intermixed with candy wrappers! But wait! You parents …
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Read As A Family
October 15, 2012Want your children to develop a love of reading? Read with them. Even children who are too young to speak or struggle to read can benefit from having stories read to them. It helps them develop language and improve their comprehension skills. Besides that, it’s a lot of fun.
Planning for Halloween
October 10, 2012If you’re like a lot of parents, the list of things that could go wrong on Halloween is enough to make you walk right out of your skin. The last thing you want to do is scream into the holiday without a plan. That would be ghastly—horrific even. So here are several Tricks to help …
Meal Planning – Filling Stomachs and Schedules
September 20, 2012Have you been in a dinner rut recently? Every family has their own menu of quick standbys – spaghetti with canned sauce, scrambled eggs, macaroni and cheese, pizza. You hear about how important it is to eat healthy, but end up watching well intentioned produce wilt in your crisper drawers. To make the most of …
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Family Scheduling – 5 Important Tools
September 5, 2012When you’re planning out how your family spends time, it can be tricky to get everyone on the same page. Even after overcoming the first hurdle of creating a schedule that works with everyone’s busy lives, you still need reminders to help everyone stick to it. Here are five important tools to help you through …
Scheduling Family Dinner
September 3, 2012With all the distractions of today’s busy families, it can be difficult to schedule time for family dinner. But if possible, set aside a half-hour together as a family for eating and talking about the day. As you do, remember to keep it positive – if it turns into an airing of grievances, your kids …
Tips for Organizing Medical Files
August 10, 2012Keep critical paperwork together and easily searchable. By Joshua Zerkel Files related to you and your family’s health are important documents and should be effectively organized. The first thing to do in organizing the paperwork you receive from your doctors or insurance company is to separate it into categories. One category would be actual diagnoses or …
Plan Ahead—Make Summertime Simple
June 26, 2012Organize as you may, summertime is loaded with spontaneity. Kids don’t normally plan the way you do. The phone rings and poof! Your day just changed. Somebody’s mother will be by to take Suzie to the pool in 15 minutes. Of course, there are times when you need to breathe your own air for a …
Creating a Family Organization Center
June 12, 2012Have you ever wished you had a place in your home where you could keep your whole family organized—a central hub from which everything emanated—an air traffic control center of sorts? We call them family organization centers and they’re all the rage on Pinterest these days. We’ve pinned a few ourselves. Believe it or not, they’re not that difficult …
