I’ve had a whole lot of questions recently about whether or not I’m still using capsule wardrobes. Drumroll please… I have said goodbye to capsule wardrobes!

If you have never heard of a capsule wardrobe before or aren’t familiar with what a capsule wardrobe is, you can check out the post I wrote a while back about it/them, but I’ll also give a quick explanation. Basically, a capsule wardrobe consists of a minimal amount of pieces of clothing – most people try for around 30 – that you can use create the maximum number of outfits. All the skirts and pants go with pretty much all the shirts and cardigans, and vice versa. All the pieces you choose for your capsule are neutral or coordinate well together.

I learned, however, my problem was I didn’t really know how to dress.

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One of the more popular non-food questions I get asked is where do I buy my clothes? And the answer might surprise you!

I almost always buy my clothes ONLINE! Honestly, I can’t remember the last time I went to a store to buy clothes! I hate shopping in the store because dressing rooms always make me feel ugly. Y’all, I don’t know that I ever go to a dressing room to try on anything and leave feeling good about myself. I don’t think that’s ever happened. Every time I leave a dressing room, I feel like a big fat failure.

I don’t know if it’s the dressing room mirrors. Or maybe it’s the terrible lighting. But dressing rooms are just not my friends. Thats why I like to buy my clothes online. The merchandise comes to my house. I can try everything on right here in my house, in my room, with my mirrors, and my lighting. Everything feels and looks better when I’m comfortable! So let’s dive in to learn about the actual places I get my clothes on the interwebs. [Read more…]

Anytime I tell y’all that Young Living oils is my business, I usually get asked the same handful of questions. To make it easier to give y’all the answers you needed, and as a future reference for when someone asks me later on, I put together this list with answers to the top 10 most frequently asked questions about Young Living (both as a “customer” and as a “business”). [Read more…]

Some of you may know right away what I mean when I say I’m going to talk about how to find a Titus 2 Mentor. Others may be asking, what is a Titus 2 Mentor? Some may even be saying Titus what now?

The idea of a Titus 2 mentor comes from the Bible in, wait for it, Titus, chapter 2.

I have mentioned this lots of times when I share helpful homemaking and parenting tips that are not mine. The majority of what I share with y’all, I have learned from people who are older and wiser. I have learned from people who have been there, done that.

When Barry and I got married, we asked his second cousins (related to me by marriage) to mentor us. We shared the same faith, we loved what we saw in  their obedient, happy, grown children. And we loved how they homeschooled and how they ran their house in general. We wanted someone in our lives to help us grow and mature in our marriage and eventually as parents. [Read more…]

How do you keep house when you are sick or pregnant?

I have four kids. That means every day is tiring, and some days are downright exhausting. But then there are those days where I’m not only tired, but I’m also sick. Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean my kids are cool with me calling it a day and staying in bed resting and recuperating. “The show must go on!” How do I get it done…and how can you? Read on… [Read more…]

“Cause you had a bad day; the camera don’t lie. You’re coming back down and you really don’t mind…”

Do y’all ever feel like some days just suck? If you’re anything like me (or Alexander), sometimes you just have a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

Sometimes, your kids don’t obey anything you say, all day long. You feel like all you do is hand out consequences from the time they wake up to the time they go to bed.

Sometimes you say insensitive things to your Aunt Debbie when you were trying to be funny and you should have been understanding and you have to apologize. Sorry, Aunt Debbie!

Sometimes you have to go to the dentist and your mouth feels like it’s in a vice. Some days you realize that you’ve been a big butthead to two different people for a long time; you have to apologize and are worried they might not forgive you.

There are some days your children pull push pins out of a place you didn’t know they were and stick them all in the floor. Some days you have to put your children to bed right after dinner. Some days you get on live video and your two year old comes out of his bed to interrupt and give you a booger.

Some days just suck. That’s life. And maybe today, that’s your life.

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How many of you have ever been overwhelmed with laundry piles?

Hands down, one of the things I get emailed about the most is laundry. Laundry quickly overwhelms even the most seasoned homemakers. And I’m not just talking about dirty laundry! When my laundry is washed and dried, but left in piles, stacks and baskets all around the house, it makes me feel so stressed out. Are y’all ready to learn the secret to avoiding clean laundry piles?    [Read more…]

I hope y’all are ready, because today I am busting the multi-tasking myth!

If you’ve been following me for a while, you might know that I am hard on kitchen towels. I mean really hard. Like…”I regularly set them on fire” hard. And I’ve recently gotten to the root of the problem. The main reason I set kitchen towels on fire? Because I try (unsuccessfully) to multi-task!

I’m not sure if anyone else struggles with this problem, but when I try to multi-task while I’m cooking, I end up setting things on fire. Potholders, kitchen towels, wet dishcloths – all those things that normal people set on fire. Why? Because I’m trying to multi-task.

To put it simply, I’m not paying enough attention to each task.

A few months ago, I would have told you I was an awesome multi-tacker! Give me 15 tasks to do, and I will do them all at the same time. Because I am an amazing multi-tacker – that’s what I do, and I’m awesome at it. But I’ve recently learned about a little thing I’m calling the multi-tasking myth.

There’s no such thing as multi-tasking. It’s a myth.

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