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Want to get organized and stay that way? Oh, I’ve got big help for you today!
If you’re like me, organizing is something you’ve really focused on during the past six months. Some people tackled smaller projects like reorganizing their kitchens, some cleaned out the long-ignored attic or garage, and some even decided to make major changes, like downsizing, selling, or (like us) remodeling. Wherever you fall on that continuum, I can promise you that today’s post is going to get you motivated, inspired, and excited! For me, staying at home more shone a light on some big issues that needed attention: some were with my actual physical home, some were related to my stress levels,...
It was early April, when the Covid-19 pandemic was cresting in the Garden State
The last place anyone wanted to be was a hospital emergency room. But one New Jersey woman with a painful wisdom tooth felt she had little choice. The antibiotics she had received two weeks earlier at the same ER hadn’t done much to quell the raging infection. She returned, braving coronavirus exposure for the second time, in her desperation to find relief. [RELATED: 2020 Top Dentists] Instead of receiving treatment, she was told that the hospital, like virtually all the state’s hospitals at the time, was overwhelmed with Covid-19 patients. An ER staffer suggested she try a hospital in Pennsylvania, where...
My 2-year-old daughter was trying to be helpful — I’ll give her that
Every night before bath time, she knows to put her dirty clothes in the laundry basket, which she usually does diligently. What she didn’t notice on this particular evening, however, was that she accidentally left a disposable pull-up diaper in the washer, entwined within her pants. Unfortunately, this diaper stowaway managed to get past me too as I loaded the washing machine a few nights later. Now as any parent who’s ever forgotten to change a baby’s diaper knows: Diapers don’t hold all the pee in the world. Even the most absorbent ones eventually become so saturated that they result...
I originally published this tutorial on Crafting a Green World.
When I was a kid, we had a couple of pieces of string art, made by an aunt, framed and hung in our house. I mean, it WAS the 1970s, the heyday of string art. But whereas the 1970s craze was all about making a string art owl from a kit (which we had), or a string art sailing ship, also from a kit (which we had), you can now do quite a bit better. A lot of the imagination that you can bring to string art now comes from how simple technology is to use. Can you imagine what...
Sharing my Lesson Plan Book
I got a ton of questions when I shared a sneak peek of my lesson plan book for this year. And I was even more shocked when several people asked if I could share the file I created. Why was I shocked?Confession time. I am not the greatest at lesson plans. Oh, I could crank out lesson plans when I was in college that would get me an A+ from my education professor. He required us to write out scripts for each lesson and add a million other things. A good lesson plan was at least ten pages. The thicker the...