Category Archives: Holidays

Planning for the holidays

I’m over at BlogHer today discussing how to get organized for the holidays with a little advance planning.  A stress-free holiday is totally possible, find out how I do it over here.

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Gift Wrap Stations

The other day I showed you how I store my gift bags, wrap and cards in my gift closet.  In case you don’t happen to have an available closet, I wanted to show you some other alternatives that I’ve found that may be helpful to you as you set up a system that works for [...]

Gift Closet

When the going gets tough, I get organizing.  It’s what I do to zone out and not think about anything else.  It works amazingly well.  The payoff at the end is awesome and it helps me to feel more in control when things around me might not necessarily be so.  I’ve been wanting to tackle [...]

Some excellent organizing help to start the new year off right

I’m just popping in to tell you about an upcoming seminar this week.  The lovely Cara from The Household Helper has put together a LIVE teleseminar on how to get organized in 2009. Here’s what she has to say:
It’s a tradition for people to make New Years Resolutions each year. It makes you feel [...]

MPM ~ Dec 22nd Christmas Menu!

Welcome to the Christmas edition of Menu Plan Monday!  Yesterday I spent some time looking through my Reiman magazines (Simple & Delicious/Healthy Cooking) and some internet sites trying to narrow down our Christmas menu.  I love looking at all the pictures, I just wished I loved to cook as well :).  We always have Christmas [...]

Christmas Card Planner & Log

As most of you know I love lists and that was especially evident in a post I wrote last year titled “How Regis & Kelly help me get my Christmas cards done“.
Recently I had the opportunity to take this whole list obsession thing even one step further.   I’ve been working with a company called Springpad [...]

Say yes to less!

Wow ladies, I am blown away and blessed by your responses to yesterday’s post.  As always the comments offer so much more wisdom and insight than I ever could.  I appreciate you taking the time to reflect and share where you are in your own lives and what you are perhaps doing differently this year [...]

Menu Plan Monday ~ Oct 6th (Thanksgiving Edition!)

Hey everyone!  Technically it’s not Thanksgiving here in Canada until next Monday but we always celebrate on the Sunday night before so we can all sleep in the next day after all our hard work :)  Just wanted to explain why you are seeing my Thanksgiving menu this week instead of next.  I’m so excited [...]

Holiday Countdown

I’ve got another great (and free!) holiday countdown to tell you about.
Starting October 1st, Cara from The Household Helper is launching a free ecourse to help you prepare for ALL the upcoming holidays between now and January, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Eve.  This ecourse will provide you with weekly emails giving you action [...]

Christmas Organizing

Did you know there are only 100 days left until Christmas!
Each year we all have such great intentions don’t we that this will finally be the year we have an organized, stress-free and on budget Christmas.  It’s not always easy though and sometimes we need a little help.  So, like last year, I want to [...]

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