Big news today guys! It's that one time of year when my favorite parenting resource, The Ultimate Homemaking Bundle, miraculously appears again for 6 days only - until Midnight, May 1st! Always valued at thousands of dollars and priced at 97% off (this year the value is over $2000), the library of resources changes every year but they are always incredibly helpful. Despite the unheard of value of the bundle each year, I inevitably hear from some of you that you're just not sure what you'd … [Read more...]
Brand New Organizational Printables for 2017! (Plus Pick Your Sale 30% – 40% Off)
It's a new year and time for a new routine. Time for a little less chaos and just a little more calm at home. If simplifying your life by organizing yourself and your kids is on the top of your wish list we've got great news... the BRAND NEW 2017 POYEL Printables and our Kids' Responsibility and Money Management Kit are on sale! For 10 days only, save 30% on each - or buy both and save 40%! December 26th, 2016 to January 4th, 2017 The 2017 Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life … [Read more...]
Top 10 Cleaning Tricks for Families with New Babies
Here's something fun - MPMK is moonlighting over on The Home Depot's site, The Apron Blog. They recently asked us to guest post on some of our favorite tricks for keeping things fresh and clean with a new baby at home - a topic that's right up my alley these days! This DIY kids' cleaning station makes it fun for older siblings to help out and I'm totally in love with both the form and function of this clever space. In fact, all 10 of the ideas our home-life and playtime contributor, … [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...]
Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life: Entryway Organization
(photo by ...love Megan, text added by MPMK) We're continuing our month-long pursuit of a better 2014 with another Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life post and more design tips from our in-house professional organizer, Annie. Last week she shared her Principles of an Organized Playroom and today she's divulging her three must-haves for entryway organization. (Don't forget to check out the end of this post for links to all of this month's helpful how-tos.) The importance of a well-organized … [Read more...]
Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life Quick Tip: Baskets!
Who's ready for a new Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life post? "A what now?" you may be asking. (I know, I know - it's been quite a long time since the last one.) Ironically, the reason I haven't done much posting on POYEL lately is because I've been spending all my extra time getting our house ready to list. While that has involved quite a bit of organizing and cleaning, I just haven't had the time to document it. However, last week I did have the chance to snap this quick after photo of … [Read more...]
30 Tips to Make Life Easier & Better
I've got a bit of a love/hate relationship with Pinterest. Mostly it's all fuzzy warm feelings and gratitude for the mountains of delectable eye-candy. But I do have a couple bones to pick too. First, it can be a HUGE time suck. Invariably so at times when I really just need to get stuff done! Second, I've realized that all the pinning over there has led to fewer round ups over here. So today I'm attempting to remedy both of those problems with the inaugural (and possibly last ever) MPMK … [Read more...]
My Emergency Go-To Meal Plan
You guys know by now I'm a big fan of meal planning. Wether its through an online service or via one of the many options available online, including MPMK's own 6 week meal plan, a well thought out plan is a major time saver. But what about those days, or weeks, when you barely have time to cook let alone meal plan? I've found myself up against a lot of those weeks lately. So I've developed one more meal plan - an emergency week meal plan. This is my list of five weeknight meals and a … [Read more...]
Project Organize Your ENTIRE Life: Mega Cleaning Action Plan
Today's the day, time for me to unleash one enormous post and time for you to finally make a cleaning schedule and get started down the path to a new life. One in which you don't have to limit having people over to times when you know you'll have a few hours to frantically surface clean the whole place first (or is that just me?). That's the goal anyway, and below is the action plan to help get you there. So grab a cup of Jo, some pen and paper, and get comfy - we've got some work to … [Read more...]