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  • Minimalism & Decluttering
    • How I Learned to Stop Being a Slob and Started Cleaning up After Myself.
    • Decluttering, Cleaning, and Saving Money in the New Year.
    • Why I Want to be A Minimalist.
    • How to Determine When You have Enough Stuff.
    • On A Bit of Minimalist Travel // Why & How to Pack Lighter.
    • How Routines Have Made My Life Better.
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    • Or Do Without.
    • All posts about minimalism & decluttering
  • Saving Money
    • My Cleaning & Meal Planning Routines.
    • How and Why We Budget.
    • Doing a Buy Nothing Month.
    • Choosing between Convenience and Values.
    • Frugal Tips
    • 6 Ways We Save Money on Groceries.
    • My Favorite Little Ways to Save Money.
    • Being a One Car Family, Part 1.
    • Being a One Car Family, Part 2.
    • All posts about frugality & saving money
  • Green Living
    • Cloth Diapering
    • 9 Ways I'm Going to be Greener at Home.
    • How to Eat Less Meat
    • Green Living: What I Use to Clean.
    • Airing my Clean Laundry.
    • Still Shampoo Free.
    • All posts about green living & sustainability
  • Motherhood
    • Miscarriage & Pregnancy Loss
    • Pregnancy Updates
    • Gabe's Birth Story
    • Theo's Birth Story
    • Everything You Need to Know about Babywearing.
    • Sleep Training Success without (Many) Tears.
    • On Careers and Ladders and Motherhood.
    • Answering Questions: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood
    • Anxiety, Committment, and Childbirth, Oh My!
    • All posts about motherhood & parenting
  • Career & Business
    • Tools I Love for Administrative Tasks & How I Use Them.
    • How I Organize Tasks & To Do Lists.
    • My Freelance-aversary & Some Thoughts on Making Your Life What You Want.
    • How I Make Money Online.
    • Why I Use the Genesis Framework.
    • Why I Love Redbooth for Project & Task Management
    • Working from Home Tips & Time Management Strategies.
    • How Does She Do It All? She Doesn't.
    • Working Mama // Figuring Out Child Care.
    • Reader Question: Discerning A Career Path.
  • Travel
    • Our "Workcation" at the Outer Banks.
    • Traveling with a Babe.
    • Costa Rica and Puerto Rico Visit, Part 1 | Lazing about at a resort
    • Puerto Rico, Part 2 | Eating our Way Through Old San Juan
    • Where to Stay & What to Eat in Puerto Rico. (Part One)
    • What to Do & See in Puerto Rico. (Part Two)
    • Anatomy of a Mini Getaway.
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Blog

Recipe: Eat-the-Whole-Batch-48-Hours Biscotti.

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I never liked biscotti. What’s to like? It’s a hard, almost-stale cookie, right? WRONG, my friends. Biscotti is an awesome giant cookie log that is cut up into awesome slices of amazing chocolatey goodness and is best consumed with a mug of coffee. What’s not to like? Someone wanted to steal my coffee. The greatRead the whole post >>

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Recent Designs.

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Every few months, I like to share what I’ve been working on with you all. Design is a big part of my life these days! I spend nearly as much time doing design work as I do working at my day job. I’m learning more about the nitty-gritty, not-as-fun details of business ownership – BUT!Read the whole post >>

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January Update & A February Intention.

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[January Goals Revisited] Fix all 500 broken links and reorganize my blog  |  Done! Some links were broken from moving over, but a lot were old blog posts with links to now-defunct blogs and such. And I’ve added some pages and changed up the navigation in the side and top bar to help direct newRead the whole post >>

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Decluttering the Pantry.

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Today’s Closet | Pantry. Like the desk and bookcase built-ins, the fact that this apartment has a pantry was Very Exciting. A lifelong dream realized, truly. Except, it is part-pantry, part-storage-closet. Before It would drive me crazy – every time I wanted to go get a can of tomatoes, I’d have to step gingerly, shovingRead the whole post >>

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Friday Photos & Finds

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  •  A grilled peanut butter & jelly. My dad used to make these for us when we were little (the only thing he could make), and I still love them.  •  Does She Sleep Through the Night? [PhD in Parenting]  •  “…the mothers that are on the receiving end of this question feel pressureRead the whole post >>

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Decluttering The Front Closet.

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Today’s Closet | Front Closet. This is the first apartment we’ve lived in that has a front closet for our coats and shoes. Before this, we had coat hooks and a shoe rack. We’re living large with an entire closet for our coats. Which means we also have one more place where clutter can congregateRead the whole post >>

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Decluttering Bookcases & Such.

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Today’s Closet | The Living Room/Dining Room Bookcases. Remember how I told you about our built-ins on Wednesday? Well, here is the other one. AKA: the reason I wanted this apartment. It’s in the main living room/dining room area: Before Shoved full o’ junk. After Empty shelves! The holy grail of decluttering. The Process I’veRead the whole post >>

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Friday Photo & Finds.

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Cheese ball heaven! 7 Ways to Successfully Work at Home with Toddlers in Tow | The Mogul Mom | I needed to read #7. How to Treat a Man | Peter DeWolf | “We like our ratty old t-shirts. Accept them.” Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory | This American Life (Okay, not a blogRead the whole post >>

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Cleaning the Closet Clutter :: Craft Area.

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Today’s Closet (Area) | Craft Desk. When we moved into this apartment a year and a half ago, I wanted this specific one because of the built-ins. There is a wall of built-in bookshelves in our living room/dining room and a desk in Gabe’s room with shelves that span the entire wall. I just loveRead the whole post >>

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Decluttering Bathroom Cabinet & Why I Clean.

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Today’s Closet | Under the Bathroom Sink Today’s ‘closet’ is more of a cabinet (CHEATER), which means it’s going to be a quick one. Hurray for instant gratification! Before I throw stuff under here that I don’t want to use much. My medicine cabinet and two drawers are full of just the things I useRead the whole post >>

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Saving Money & Living Frugally

Doing a Buy Nothing Month.

Every so often, my eating junk food gets a little out of control and do a little juice cleanse. To help reset my body’s ideas of … [Read More...]

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Simple Living & Minimalism

Long Distance Moving and Decluttering – A Few Tips.

We're in the midst of a long distance move to Massachusetts this month (in the nomadic portion of our move - we moved out of our … [Read More...]

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Green Living & Sustainability

Choosing between Convenience and Values.

A reader asks: How do you decide when to focus your energy on better choices versus choosing convenience? I think it can be so … [Read More...]

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Motherhood & Parenting

The Story of Eleanor.

(Warning, this post will contain mentions of bodily fluid) How Eleanor Came to Be. I want to write this all down while I still … [Read More...]

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Career & Business

A New Leaf. Little Leaf.

(Yes, I am a dork.) Your website should be like an extra employee. Who works non stop 24/7. I recently overhauled my site … [Read More...]

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Recipes

Recipe: Curried Greens and Chickpeas

Recipe: Vegetarian Ramen.

Recipe: Sweet and Sour Tempeh with Pineapple and Cashews.

Recipe: Tofu Lettuce Wraps.

Recipe: Bistro Broccoli Chowder

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