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A warm home entryway with a bench.

The Cozy Fall Home Reset I Do Every Year

There’s something about fall that makes me want to reset the entire house. Maybe it’s the cooler weather. Maybe it’s knowing we’ll be spending more time inside. Or maybe I just want an excuse to buy a candle and pretend that lighting it counts as cleaning. Either way, fall is when I like to make…

How We Handle School Papers Without Drowning in Paper

If you have school-aged kids, you know. The papers. The worksheets. The artwork. The newsletters. The permission slips. The certificates. The birthday invitations. The things they made that are absolutely adorable and therefore impossible to throw away. If I kept every piece of paper that came home, we’d need another house. So I’ve had to…

10 Things I Bought for Our Home That I’d Buy Again

I’m pretty skeptical of things marketed as “life-changing.” I’ve bought plenty of products that promised to organize my entire life and instead became another thing I had to find somewhere to store. But there are some things we’ve bought for our home that genuinely made everyday life easier. These are the things I’d buy again.…

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