February 16, 2010 by Marci | 2 Comments
Laura, at I’m An Organizing Junkie, is hosting a 28 Day Organizing Challenge during the month of February. The challenge to readers is to declutter and organize a space in their home during February. All throughout the month, Laura and a talented group of guest authors, are serving up tips and tricks to make the [...]
February 9, 2010 by Marci | 3 Comments
Until this year, the valentine decor in my house consisted of whatever my kids made at pre-school or church and hung on our fridge. Those handmade treasures of love stayed there the week of Valentine’s Day until another beautiful drawing was given to me to replace it – about a week. Things are different this [...]
February 2, 2010 by Marci | No Comments
I have been slowly re-organizing and de-cluttering my kitchen over the past couple weeks. In doing so, I learned a few organizing lessons that can help us all! Visit me today at The Creative Mama and read all about it!
January 28, 2010 by Marci | 2 Comments
There is a story my dad used to tell about one of his aunts. In the 1940’s in the rural area where they lived, it was a luxury to have nice china and linens. Aunt Freida was one of the blessed ones. She had a china cabinet full of china and glassware. She had drawers [...]
January 19, 2010 by Marci | No Comments
Join me today at Family Survival 101 where I’m guest posting! We’re talking grocery lists and how to organize your list to make your trip to the grocery store shorter and more efficient.
January 6, 2010 by Marci | 3 Comments
Now that the holidays are over, does anyone else feel the need for some “spring cleaning” in January?! Since taking the decorations down, I can see I need to clean and organize just about every area of my house. My plan throughout the year is to organize a little area every week or [...]
October 23, 2009 by Marci | 2 Comments
Just the thought of decluttering and organizing can be enough to overwhelm some of us. When we look at the size of the job as a whole, it can seem impossible to tackle. That is why lots of us never even start. This week in our series “Start Overcoming Busy Right Now”, lets look at [...]
October 14, 2009 by Marci | 2 Comments
So, you’ve invested the time to de-clutter and organize your home. You are basking in peaceful, serene glory. Then, it hits you. “How in the world am I going to keep this up?!?!” You may have found a place for everything. But does anyone else know that? Does the system you created work for everyone [...]
August 5, 2009 by Marci | 3 Comments
I ran across this story out of the UK today and just had to share it. It seems that British Primary Schools are seeing an influx of students who are still wearing diapers and having accidents at school. There is even a charity organization that is giving school nurses courses in potty training older children! [...]
June 2, 2009 by Marci | 4 Comments
I have the next two days to do with what I please. The kids are at my parents getting spoiled, so I have no distractions until my husband gets home tonight. So, what am I going to do with this precious time? Well, I made a list – of course. Actually, I made [...]
June 1, 2009 by Marci | 2 Comments
Summer has officially started in our house. Kids are out of school. The weather is great. My tomatoes and herbs and flowers are planted. The kids are going to my parents for 3 days. Life is good!
I am going to use these few days to actually plan out our summer. More on that in a [...]
Marci Goodwin is wife to an amazing husband and mother to two phenomenal kids. She is on a journey to get the "busy" out of her life so she can spend time on what's really important.
