Recently I posted a review on Mom’s Favorite Stuff of The Organic Dish. A very convenient and yummy option for healthy and wholesome meals, The Organic Dish provides meals that are ready for you to cook. We are very grateful that Beckie from The Organic Dish has provided us with a "how to" on searing [...]

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I’m going to share with you my own stumbling blocks in minding our home….It’s me. I’m my own worst enemy. It isn’t the lack of time that gets me….It’s my trouble with managing time. I tend to overthink everything, which is probably not a big surprise to anyone that knows me. I just like [...]

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I love pencil and paper and I love the feeling of writing things down, but I also love the streamline feeling of using the computer to help mind our home. In the past few years, I’ve come upon some neat and helpful websites to guide me through some of the different aspects of keeping our [...]

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Since having children, we’ve moved 3 times, not including a short stint in an extended stay place. I’ve always wanted to have the perfect rooms for my boys. Something both cute, practical, and live-able. Unfortunately, in our current home, I don’t have a blank canvas to deal with and I have to make do. I [...]

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Due to my husband’s work, we’ve moved often. At this time we live almost 1900 miles away from my parents and just 200 miles less than that from my in-laws, which is much closer than the 5000 miles when we lived in Turkey but still requires some major travel arrangements for visits. When our [...]

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I truly want to be a great mom, a great spouse, and a great home manager, but I get caught up in all of my tasks, I get tired. I lose my steam and start to waver in my confidence and in my motivation. Then there are the times, when I feel new, refreshed, ready [...]

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I want to explain what it is I’m doing here with my own column for Minding the Home. I want you to know I’m not a Martha Stewart type figure. I don’t have this whole domestic goddess thing under control. I want to. I so desperately want to be that mom and wife that is [...]

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