Happy Simple Mom
Simple, Clutter-Free Living
This week has been super exciting. I created a gratitude jar with my kids, and it has been a HUGE success. Practicing gratitude and teaching gratitude to my children has been a journey. In a world of never enough, it is easy to get lost in wanting more, feeling left out, or generally not grateful …
So Facebook crashed on me recently…during a storm. What was I supposed to do for the next few hours?! The recent dilemma got me thinking. I reach for my phone to scroll through the Facebook app a lot more often than I thought. It’s a little embarrassing. I chose to delete the Facebook app from …
Should you move to a rural area to save money? What if you HATE living in town, surrounded by noises, traffic and a constant state of busyness? I grew up in a small, rural town. There was one high school, and we all got excited when they finally put in the one restaurant, a Golden …
You need to be spending time with friends mama. Something happens when we become mothers. We stop being the center of the universe, and instead, our universe rotates around this tiny human that captures our heart and soul. We become tired, sometimes irritable, and often carry around worry and guilt that is more magnified than …
Learning how to keep your New Year’s resolution can be a real challenge some years! We start off strong. We have an incredible resolve. Then, once February rolls around, many of us are scrambling to remember why we started such an impossible journey. We may not have even started our New Year’s resolution efforts. …
There are only so many hours in the day, and more often than not, those hours are devoted to obligations. Some of these obligations in life we enjoy. However, there are many that drain us of any joy, and we continue as a society to search for how to find more time in the day …
As a working mom, we are often too hard on ourselves, expecting to do it all and be that Pinterest perfect super-mom. I’m going to let you in on a dirty little secret: that super mom, she takes short-cuts. She simplifies where she can simplify, and she is unapologetic. She embraces a simpler way of …
If you had told me in my poor, beans and rice years that I would one day write why living with less stuff will make you happier, I would have laughed at you. Sure, money doesn’t buy happiness, but like that country song goes, it can buy you a boat and a new truck. …
This is not a sanctimonious mom blogger telling you that you suck at being a mom and that you are addicted to your phone. This is me. Real-life me trying to figure out how to spend more time with my kids and less time with my smartphone. I often feel like I need a smartphone …
Working full time and outside of the home, I NEEDED a way to save time grocery shopping. I hated how much time it took away from my weekend. Ultimately, I would spend hours on Saturday morning putting together a meal plan, compiling a shopping list and then shopping at the store. It was time missed …
Do you want to quit your job? Are you terrified of the money you are giving up and the quality of life you will lose if you do it? Money isn’t everything I quit Corporate America, giving up my six-figure salary with it. I did it with no other job lined up. Saying it out …
Have you ever felt like you had it all but life was still so unfulfilling and without purpose? Simplify your life, and maybe you will find a whole lot of joy hiding under all the “stuff” we keep piled up in our lives. It seems our grandparents were right, money can’t buy happiness. There has …
