Carrie's Busy Nothings

When we got home with the kids a little less than two years ago, everyday life was just a sun-up to sun-down survival. From figuring out meals for seven (after 16 years of being used to fly-by-the-seat-of-our-pants meals for two), to figuring out bedtimes...

I've written about this before, but several years ago the Hubs told me that if I wanted to continue to bring new shoes into the house, I had to implement a rule that when a new pair came in, an old pair went out. The same was also to apply to clothing...

Here's the deal: after dropping the kids off at school (especially if it's a rainy day), I love to stop by my local Starbucks and grab a tall, decaf, white chocolate mocha. Or, since I started paying attention to the calorie counts (oof!), a tall, decaf...

Last week I had a little meltdown when I went up into the play loft and discovered that my much beloved American Girl dolls (and their various accouterments) that had been in my possession for almost 30 years were - to put it mildly - trashed. There...