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How To Stop Accumulating Stress [Stress]
Have you ever been tense about something, just to have your kids misbehave? Have you ever been late and misplace your keys? Have you ever wondered about why, when you’re already stressed, the stress seems to pile on?
The reason is that we accumulate stress as we move through situations. Each additional stressor piles on to [...]
How To Stress Less Before Trips and Enjoy Them More [Simplicity]
Have you ever spent the last few hours before a trip stressed out and harassed, packing frantically and snapping at anyone who got in your way? What about realizing after you came home from a trip that you might as well have stayed home, for all that you took in while on the trip?
Here is [...]
How To Have Fun And Be Goofy [Self Care]
Far too often working moms are so busy keeping up with everything that they forget to take time and have some fun. Are you one of these working moms? I am.
And the truth is, I sometimes think I don’t know how to have fun. After a recent week away, I discovered some ways to make [...]
Saving Time: Assembly Line Lunches
When my daughter started kindergarten and I had to send lunches, I tried to be creative. I had all sorts of “fun” foods, varying things often, balancing items in the lunches.
When my daughter came home one day, about three weeks after school started and said, “Mommy, can I just have peanut butter and jelly in [...]
Gadget Review: Roomba
Wouldn’t it be great if you could have something vacuum for you? Some device that would sweep an area while you were at work? That device already exists, and is called a Roomba.
How Roombas Works
The Roomba uses physical walls and electronic infrared devices as “virtual walls” to keep itself contained within an area. The area [...]
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