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How To: Personal Assistant for the Working Mom
This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase from these links, I will get a small commission. As an average working mom, I never saw myself as someone with a personal assistant, but I have learned a lot since then. Welcome to the world of personal...
5 Bad Excuses for Doing Everything Yourself
There are not enough hours in a day. And there never will be. You're coming home from work, a million thoughts bouncing around in your head. That meeting with your boss in the morning, the emails you need to reply to, and that phone call you've been avoiding. But this...
Hospitals & Doctors
So You Need Surgery – Preparing Your Home
What Do You Need? Every time I have had surgery my needs were slightly different, and they depended largely on both my circumstances and the terms of my recovery. Will someone be with me or will I be alone? Did I live in a house with stairs, or an apartment with an...
So You Need Surgery – Preparing Yourself
The Hardest Part - My Emotions So the hardest part of facing surgery for me is the "Here we go again" syndrome. I feel overwhelmed by everything that is to come. Many feel overwhelmed because they don't know what to expect; I am not sure which is better. Because it is...
So You Need Surgery – The Hospital Screening
Be Prepared for Lots of Questions Before surgeries, I am always asked to go into the hospital for a pre-operative interview. This meeting is often done in multiple parts and can take several hours. Depending on the hospital, you may not see anyone from your medical...
Caregiving & Friendship
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Family & Home
Should You Outsource at Home?
Outsourcing some of our personal life is becoming inevitable. Whether we grew up in two income households where our family did everything on their own or not, we need to accept that our world is changing, and we need to adapt to survive. Commutes are longer, cell...
Why I Believe in a House Binder
My family developed our House Binder out of need. To manage our chaos. Origins of the Binder At the most stressful point in my life, my family was in chaos, my house in disarray, and I was almost in tears trying to stay ahead of it. In addition to that, I had a...
The Family Command Center
My Family Command Center is the nerve center of our home. It is one wall of our kitchen, and holds everything we need at a glance. Here it is: What you see (from top left, moving clockwise): Family title frame Year at a glance frame Bulletin board with three sections:...
What’s in a Household Binder?
What do you need in your household binder, your shared brain, the contract for your outsourcers? Key House Printables. Family Printables. Everything that your family needs in order to function efficiently. All of the checklists, schedules and to do lists that you need...
Share A Brain – The House Binder
When I was in university, I lost my Filofax (read cell phone if you are under 40); I almost had a panic attack. My whole life was in that book. Now that's how I feel about my house binder; thank god it never leaves the kitchen. So, what is a house binder? Exactly what...
Necessity is the Mother of Invention
So, where do all of these suggestions and tools come from? Why have I developed so many household management tools? I lived my life with a cane, a wheelchair, or from bed on and off for about 5 or 10 years (depending on how you look at it) of my adult life. I cared...