organize – Mamie L. Pack

Feature, Lifestyle, Motherhood, Raising boys

5 simple organizational tools for busy parents

(Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links, meaning at no cost to you, I will earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase.) The kids are back in school. You have worked hard to get your routines in place, but somehow a pile of papers is starting to grow on your counter. How do YOU keep everything organized now that school is in full swing? Whether you need to organized school supplies or the big pile of papers coming home with your kindergarten, I have done it all w[...]

Lifestyle

Good night: 3 evening habits to cultivate a healthy mindset

While most people focus on creating powerful morning habits, productive moms realize what you do in the evening is just as important. Cultivating a healthy mindset for a new day is often connected to how we ended the day before. Just think about it. Did you stumble through your evening just to make it to bed exhausted, worn out, and numb from the day? Have you ever started your day feeling like you’re already behind? Or, in true mom fashion, frantically rushed through your house just trying to[...]

Mid-week three, Motherhood, Raising boys

Getting Ready: 3 Practical ways to prepare your children for the New Year

As a busy wife and mom, preparing for the new year is serious business for me. I intentionally make time to reflect, pray, and plan. Then one day it hit me. I was doing all this planning for me but I wasn't including those who matter most to me. I was leaving out my fellas. That's was when I knew I needed to do something different. So a few years ago, we made the shift to start preparing our fellas for the New Year too. Here are three practical ways we help our fellas prepare for a new year. Wr[...]

Lifestyle, Mid-week three

Let it go: 3 steps to declutter and purge for the New Year

Have you ever stood in your closet and wonder, how did all that stuff get there? Or maybe look in your office and realize you just bought a book you already had? It is time to create steps to declutter your space. It’s so easy for things to pile up. Usually a good time for me to evaluate my living and work space is at the start of a new year. What’s working? What’s not? Do I need to reorganize? Does anything need to be decluttered? From there, I begin the decluttering and purging process. Like most[...]