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Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life: Cheerful DIY Storage Jars

February 23 by Kristin

Easy Kid Craft: DIY Storage Jars - a fun project for getting kids excited about helping keep the house organized

If you're a regular here, you know we're all about getting kids involved in contributing around the house early. Sometimes that means setting up regular family and money jobs, and sometimes it just means taking a little time for a bright and cheerful DIY organization project. Here's Kristen with the details... Things look better when they are organized. And I think we function better when things look better. Case in point:  The Junk Drawer. We all have one and if you've ever … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art + Kid Crafts, Kristin, Organizing, Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life Tagged With: DIY organization, diy projects, DIY storage jars, easy kid craft, home office organization, How to get organized, Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life

Meal Planning Made Easy – A Prep Dish Review

January 18 by Kaley

How I'm Finally Figuring Out Healthy Meal Planning this Year!

  One of my big resolutions for the year is to finally get on top of meal planning. Yes, I've made this resolution in the past but this year I have a secret weapon; the meal planning service Prep Dish. I asked my contributor, Kaley, to review it for me and, based on her experience, we're starting at our house next week. If you'd like to learn more, here's Kaley with her thoughts... Last year, my husband and I did the Whole30. For those of you who haven't heard of the Whole30, it is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: In the Kitchen, Kaley, Meal Planning Tagged With: dinner meal plan, dinner recipes, easy meal planning, fast meals, gluten free, healthy dinners, healthy eating, meal planning, paleo, prep dish

3 Easy ways to Declutter After the Holidays

December 19 by Kaley

Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life: How to de-clutter and get organized for the New Year

The holidays aren't even over yet, and I am already thinking of all of the things I want to declutter and purge before the new year. It always feels like December is filled with overindulgences and lots and lots of stuff. And we all tend to get so busy, there is no time available to even try to control the chaos. After the holidays are over, spend a bit of time on each of these 3 steps in order to have a fresh, clean start to 2017. Step 1 - One In, Two Out You (and your children) likely … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Decluttering, Holiday, Kaley Tagged With: declutter, decluttering the kitchen, holiday decorations, How to get organized, New Year's Resolutions, POYEL, Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life

Mom Hack: 17 Ways Kids Can Use Wipes to Help You Clean the House

November 21 by Kaley

Chores for Young Kids - 17 Ways kid can help clean the house using simple baby wipes. #spon

This post is sponsored by Huggies. Both of my girls are long out of diapers. But I still buy Huggies Natural Care Wipes by the caseload. Did you know that Huggies worked in partnership with NICU nurses to develop the first baby wipe specifically designed for fragile premature baby skin to be used in NICUs? They're called Huggies Natural Care Extra Sensitive Wipes and they're only found in Neonatal Intensive Care Units, not sold in stores. However, many of the features found in the Extra … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cleaning House, Kaley, Parenting Tagged With: baby wipes, cleaning floors, cleaning with kids, Huggies, uses for baby wipes

Free Printables Pack: First Day of School Signs

August 17 by MJ at Pars Caeli

I'm so excited to have our resident graphic designer, MJ, back today with an ENTIRE FREE PRINTABLE PACK that I just know you're going to love! The idea of these printables are to use them to start a new 1st day of school photo tradition that allows you to document not only the kiddos' super cute new outfits and excited grins, but also their changing dreams and aspirations. Great idea, right?! You could do some really interesting things with these photos - a coffee table book, a hallway … [Read more...]

Filed Under: MJ, Photography & Memory Keeping, Printables Tagged With: back to school, first day of school printable, first day of school sign, free printable, kid photography, MPMK first day of school sign, printables

Preparing for Preschool with a Personalized Photo Book

August 15 by Steph (MPMK Founder)

Preparing for Preschool with a Personalized Photo Book

If you have a kiddo starting a new school this year (be it preschool, kindergarten, or even daycare) I highly recommend you check out this post from a few years ago!    Our DIY preschool photo book was such a major hit oldest child that I'm bringing it back, yet again, for our third new preschooler.   The idea comes from a child life specialist and was suggested to me by a friend when I was fretting over C’s transition from being at home full time to entering preschool two … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Photography & Memory Keeping Tagged With: DIY school photo book, personalized school book, prepapring for school, preschool photo book, school photo book

20 Organization Projects to Make Back-to-School a Breeze

August 3 by Alli

TONS of great ideas here - love the self-serve lunch stations and study spaces the most.

It's back-to-school month. You know what that means - time to buckle down and set up some solid morning, lunch packing, and maybe even homework routines. It wouldn't hurt to set up a backpack and study zone either! Here's Alli with 20 of the best projects out there to get you organized for Back-to-School. My oldest son will be starting a Mother's Day Out program this Fall. I know, I know. That's small potatoes in the back-to-school world. But still. It has my heart in a lurch. I'm already … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Alli, Organizing, Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life Tagged With: back to school organization, how to get organized. POYEL, kids routines, organizing art supplies, packed lunches, Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life, school organization

Spring Cleaning: Free 4-Week Printable Action Plan

March 2 by Steph (MPMK Founder)

Lots of handy free checklists to finally get your spring cleaning done - love the look of #6, actually makes me feel happy about cleaning!

Now that it's March, we're definitely due a Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life spring cleaning post... have you gotten started yet?  Yeah, me neither. But I'm giving myself some grace and saying there's still time! In that spirit, Kristin has rounded up for us some of the best FREE spring cleaning checklists around to help get you started.   And, as a special bonus, there's a free 4-week spring cleaning calendar at the end of this post. If there's anyone that can inspire us to Spring … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cleaning House, Printables, Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life Tagged With: cleaning calendar, free printable cleaning calendar, POYEL, Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life, spring cleaning checklist, spring cleaning printable

30 Dinner Ideas for Preschoolers

January 7 by Kaley

30 Dinner Recipes to Feed Your Preschooler - this was such a help with my picky-eater kid!

We've covered making your own baby food. And also meal ideas for a 1-year-old. But what happens when that cute little chubby toddler turns into an opinionated preschooler who refuses to eat anything but grilled cheese sandwiches? (Replace grilled cheese sandwiches with buttered noodles, or whatever your little one deems the food of the month.) Even the best of eaters has been known to turn super picky during the preschool years, and the vegetables that they used to gobble up are now fodder … [Read more...]

Filed Under: In the Kitchen, Kaley, Meal Planning Tagged With: dinner ideas, dinner ideas for preschoolers, dinner ideas for toddlers, easy dinner recipes for kids, easy kid recipes, kid food, meal ideas for preschoolers, toddler recipes, what to feed your preschooler, what to feed your toddler

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