Amy from Utah wrote to me this week for help with her medicine supply cupboard. Here’s an excerpt from her email… I am out of room for all the stuff that has to be in the meds cupboard, we purge the contents of the bins as the needs change, but it still leaves me with a [...]
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Watch any decorating show and they’ll tell you the key to great design is great lighting. In my opinion, organizing have the same mantra. The simple fact is that it’s impossible to keep things tidy if you can’t see the results. Take my kitchen cupboards, for example. Look in any of my upper cabinets you’ll [...]
Saturday, March 14, 2009
I am convinced that the person who invented towel rods did not have children. Not only are they tough for little hands to reach, but they’re only designed to hold one or two towels. When you’ve got four kids sharing the same bathroom you need a better way to keep soggy towels off the floor. Last [...]
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
One day the world will do me a favor and someone will develop a truly kid-friendly toothpaste. I imagine it will be something similar to the Electrasol dishwashing tabs under my kitchen sink – compact, individually portioned, and virtually mess-proof. Until that happy day arrives, I’m afraid I’m stuck with the status quo…sticky tubes of crusty [...]
Saturday, November 15, 2008
If you’ve got daughters, chances are you’ve done your fair share of last-minute hairstyles. Both of my beautiful daughters were born with gobs of hair so I’ve been whipping out cute-but-quick hairstyles for almost 10 years. Along the way I’ve found a few tools that come in very handy when you’re trying to create a hairstyle in a hurry. A [...]
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
If you’ve got girls then chances are you’ve got a ton of hair accessories. Bows, barrettes, headbands, clips – it’s amazing how many hair doodads we buy. I used to store all their hair stuff in a plastic bin under the bathroom sink but I hated digging through it. I could never find what I was looking for [...]
Saturday, February 16, 2008
My oldest daughter turned eight this year and one of her many transitions into “big kid life” has been to manage her own bath-time routine. One area she seemed to struggle with was temperature control. I can’t tell you how many times I had to drain the tub because she’d managed to fill it with icy-cold or [...]
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
As I mentioned in a previous post, I dread cleaning bathrooms. I hate the germy gunk, the smelly chemicals, and the overall time commitment. One area I particularly loathe is my shower. For the last several years I’ve had a shower with sliding glass doors. You know, those lovely glass doors that start out looking so [...]
Friday, March 19, 2010
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