Whether your family routinely does a ten hour trip to grandma's every Thanksgiving, or you just find yourself in the car shuttling kids around A LOT now that school's back in session - a well organized and entertaining car environment can be a parent's best friend!Today Alli is teaming up with MPMK's newest sponsor, Munchkin, to share her favorite tips and products for keeping the mood happy in the car so you can be one zen Mama, wherever the road may take you.They're all great, but my … [Read more...]
Our Fail-Proof 3 Step Plan for Saving Kid Art & School Projects
My kiddos headed back to school last week, and I know it won't be long before they start coming home with all sorts of papers, projects and pictures. Last year, I struggled quite a bit with deciding what to keep and where to keep it. This year, I'm starting with a plan.My plan is intentionally simple. I don't follow through with overly structured systems for managing household tasks, and I know it's likely to fall to the bottom of my to-do list if it isn't amazingly easy. Here are the basic … [Read more...]
How to set up a study space anywhere
With a soon-to-be kindergarten in the house (what?!) I've been scouting out spots in the house to set up a study station for him. And, after doing a little web surfing, I became convinced that it's impossible to set up such a space in literally any space.So I put together a handy roundup of the most ingenious ideas I found. You can check them all out here. Want more MPMK goodness over the weekend? Be sure to sign up for our newsletter (and get the free 6 week meal plan) and to follow … [Read more...]
10 Best Ways To Organize Art Supplies
I recently mentioned my newly rekindled desire to set up a tinkering/creation station in our new house for the kids. So - of course - I had to put our resident professional organizer on the job to make sure I had all the resources I needed to get it done right.Here's Annie with her ideas on how to create a beautifully functional and organized art space for your kiddos.P.S. Creating a space like this is also IDEAL for using with our free summer B.O.R.E.D. printable. School's out for … [Read more...]
DIY Family Flip Flops Bucket
This is an easy summer DIY that looks great, will bring a little order to your life, and is fun (and mess-free) to do with the kids. In other words, it's a total winner in my book.Hop on over to eHow's Mom Channel for the simple tutorial.And before you disappear for the holiday weekend, make sure you come back tomorrow to get in our special 4th of July weekend sale on Camp Mom! … [Read more...]
3 Awesome LEGO Storage and Organization DIYs
I'm away prepping for, or possibly enjoying, my new baby boy today (I'm not sure yet as I'm writing this several weeks in advance of publishing it). Either way, I haven't forgotten you guys. I've asked Holly of the kid play mega site, Kids Activities Blog, to stop by and share her best DIYs and tips for finally getting those LEGOs under control.This is a challenge we're starting to face in a very real way around our house and I absolutely love all of Holly's ideas - especially the DIY … [Read more...]
Creating a Dress-Up Play Closet {The Forever Home Project}
A dress-up closet is such a great creativity tool for kids. Unfortunately, not many of us have the space to create one in our homes. Today Julee is sharing her tips for maximizing your kids' closet space to create a hybrid dress-up/regular clothes closet and I'm totally smitten with the results.We just removed the doors from S's closet and replaced them with curtains to free up some space in her room and give her better accessibility. I think our next move will be to incorporate some … [Read more...]
How to Organize Photos Like a Professional Organizer: POYEL
Our post on How to Store Your Digital Photos Like a Professional Photographer was so popular that we decided to follow it up with another Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life post on how to organize print photos from our resident professional organizer, Annie. She's got a fool-proof 5 part process you're sure to love! While the majority of us have shifted into the digital realm most households still have a stockpile of family pictures.Printed at the local drugstore some several years ago, … [Read more...]
My Simple Plan for Saving Our Memories This Year
We're talking memories today as part of our month long mission to find ways to eat better, parent better, organize better and just generally live better this year. Before S arrived, I was actually pretty good about recording memories for our little family. At the end of each month I would use the photos we'd taken to create 2 - 4 new pages in an iphoto book, along with a few paragraphs with family anecdotes, accomplishments, etc. The idea being that at the end of the year I would have a … [Read more...]