Author: BigKittyCorner
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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…
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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…
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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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Some Days I’m a Great Mom. Some Days I’m Just Keeping Everyone Alive.
Some days, motherhood feels like something I’m really good at. We’re patient. We laugh. We read books. Everyone eats something vaguely nutritious. Nobody has a meltdown over the wrong color cup. I go to bed thinking, “I’ve got this.” And then there are the other days. The days when everyone is cranky. The house is…
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How I Make School Mornings Less Chaotic
I don’t think I’ve ever met a mom who wakes up on a school morning and thinks, “I cannot wait to see how chaotic this gets.” And yet, somehow, chaos finds us. Someone can’t find a shoe. Someone suddenly hates the breakfast they’ve eaten every day for the last six months. A backpack is missing.…
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The Memory Box System That’s Saving Me From Drowning in Kid Paperwork
Before I had kids, I never realized how much paper they would bring into my house. Artwork. School pictures. Birthday cards. Certificates. Event programs. Class projects. Report cards. Tiny handprints. Construction-paper masterpieces that absolutely cannot be thrown away—at least not immediately. For a while, I kept everything. Then I realized that if I saved every…
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30 Screen-Free Activities Kids Actually Enjoy
Let’s be honest: screens can be incredibly helpful. Sometimes you need twenty uninterrupted minutes to make dinner, answer an email, or simply drink your coffee while it’s still hot. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. But on the days when we’re looking for something different, I like to keep a running list of easy,…
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The Little Things That Make Our House Feel Cozier
I don’t have a perfectly decorated home. Our house has toys. Laundry. Random cups that somehow migrate from the kitchen to every other room. There are probably crumbs somewhere right now. But I do love making our home feel cozy. Not expensive. Not perfectly styled. Just comfortable. The kind of place where you want to…
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The Family Traditions I Want My Kids to Remember
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the things my kids will remember about growing up. Not the big, expensive things. Not the vacations that required months of planning. The little things. The ordinary things that happen so often that we don’t realize they’re becoming part of childhood. I want my kids to have traditions.…
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A Realistic Cleaning Routine for a House That Is Actually Lived In
I used to think that keeping a clean house meant cleaning all the time. If the house was messy, I felt like I should be cleaning. If I was cleaning, I felt like I should be doing something else. And somehow, I was always doing a little bit of everything without ever feeling like anything…
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