“Keeping a home not only requires time, energy, and creativity, but it also calls for skills and experience. I believe homemaking is an art, and to pursue any piece of art demands time and talent.”

— Dorothy Kelley Patterson

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  • Motivation: The One Drawer Method

    This is going to be a very short post. I’m in the process of writing a much longer instructional post about one-pot cooking and this doesn’t need to be all that long, so… This is going to be simple. It’s… Continue reading

    Motivation: The One Drawer Method
  • Digital Decluttering: How to “clean out” your email inbox

    One thing that you will often see in articles about productivity and decluttering is the idea of doing a “digital declutter”. While most of us (myself included) desperately need to clean up our computer hard drives, (for most people) the… Continue reading

    Digital Decluttering:  How to “clean out” your email inbox
  • Brainstorming: How Alexa can have your back in the mornings

    Good morning! If you just rolled your eyes at that — because your morning wasn’t as good as you would have liked it to be — then I suspect that you’re in the right place. What made your morning not… Continue reading

    Brainstorming:  How Alexa can have your back in the mornings
  • My 3 step Evening Routine

    I’ve seen all sorts of “before bed” routines all over the internet. Some routines take 10 or 15 minutes; some take an HOUR or more. How anyone has an evening routine that they do for an hour every night, day… Continue reading

    My 3 step Evening Routine
  • The easiest meal you’ll ever make

    The first time I can ever remember making this meal was September 11, 2001. I know I’ve probably made it before that day, but that’s the most memorable time that I can remember making it. My husband was working five… Continue reading

    The easiest meal you’ll ever make
  • How to Cook: Level One

    You’re probably familiar with the term “investment cooking”.  It often shows up on Pinterest as “make a month’s worth of meals in an hour” or some similar tag line.  This works great — if you’re trying to get dinner on… Continue reading

    How to Cook: Level One
  • How “smart” does my home really need to be?

    We all should try to be “smart”.But do our appliances have to be? When I first started thinking about having a smart home, I thought that I would need (or really, want) to buy everything “smart”. I started searching Amazon… Continue reading

    How “smart” does my home really need to be?
  • How to Cook: Level Three

    What if I told you that you could make your own Spaghetti sauce? Homemade bread?  Single servings of cake, brownies, or chocolate chip cookies from scratch?  Or macaroni and cheese (from scratch, not those processed Easy Mac things)? And each… Continue reading

    How to Cook: Level Three