Mom Hacks, Tips & Tricks

"Is dinner ready yet?" That sentence usually pops up around 4:15 pm on any given day, right when you are starting to cook and wondering why you even bother. My kids come home from school, have a snack or two, and by 4 pm they are acting like they have not eaten in 3 days. I always say the same thing, "Guys, it is 4:00 - GO PLAY, it will be ready when it is ready." I am going to share some easy, and quick recipes below in hopes that it makes cooking dinner a little bit easier. Now let me just say, I am no chef! However my husband is, he is an executive chef and he is an...

Something about a new year makes me reevaluate my life. Whether you set goals or have a word of the year to go by, I think we can all agree that we love to save money! There are a few things I have done to line up our budget this year. We cut cable. It has now ALMOST been a year. We stream Netflix, Hulu ESPN and Disney+ but are saving $100 per month ($1,200.00 per year) NOT paying for cable. Our biggest concern was watching sports …we DO live in Louisiana after all. The ESPN app has everything that we need; we also have an antenna for anything that comes on major channels. We have two set days...

  There are three types of married women: My wedding dress is cleaned, preserved, boxed, and stored so my daughter can one day wear it in her wedding—if she wants. SOLD. I knew I was never wearing it again. I have no need for it. Why not make a buck or two? It’s a beautiful dress! The stuck .... I still have my dress, but I don’t know why. I don’t need it, but I haven’t done anything with it. Do you fit in to any of the those categories? I’ve been in number 3 for almost twelve years! When my daughter was seven months old we did a mini session of her sitting in my dress. It was adorable!...

A question was posed to me recently: Why are you filling every waking moment with a task? Outside of being obsessed with crossing things off my to-do list once accomplished, I couldn’t answer that question. Newsflash: You are not a bad mother or wife if every waking second is not filled with some task or chore to complete. I could delve into the psychology behind this, but I won’t. I will say this – I quickly realized that my husband and children aren’t going to end up unhappy, unfulfilled or in therapy because I didn’t fold a load of clothes at night instead of spending time with them. They will, however, remember that I didn’t spend time with them because I...

The truth is I decided now was a good time to blog because I have mountains of laundry screaming for my attention. Well, I despise doing laundry. I mean I do not enjoy one moment of sorting, folding, and putting clothes away. And I need a mental health day just to mate socks. I am pretty sure that the clothes in my house get up and "Second Line" their way into my laundry room. And as if we don't accumulate enough dirty laundry of our own, my son throws EVERYTHING in the laundry room. Put on a shirt to see if it matches his pants... throws it in the laundry. Sees neatly folded clothes in a pile waiting to be...