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My Stupid Simple System for Organizing Paperwork

February 3, 2020 By Ashley McKeown Leave a Comment

Tired of constantly organizing paperwork? Check out the simplest paperwork system for busy moms! This organization system only requires a few hours a year. Eliminate paper clutter in your home with this easy and cheap DIY paper system. Includes a step-by-step process for how to organize your papers, steps for how to reduce the papers that come into your house, resources for eliminating junk mail, and great products to help you keep your home organized.

If you’ve ever been stressed out by the stack of papers piled high on your kitchen counter, Mama, I feel you.

Motherhood is filled with laundry, stinky diapers, and constantly trying to convince our ~~goblins~~ kids to eat something other than mac ‘n cheese. Really, it’s no surprise that things like organizing paperwork fall low on our priority list.

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5 Steps to Managing Holiday Stress

December 23, 2019 By Ashley McKeown Leave a Comment

Managing holiday stress is critical, especially for busy moms. Here are some practical tips for how to manage stress and deal with holiday anxiety. Following these 5 steps will help you eliminate or at least reduce holiday stress. You'll learn about triggers: what they are, how to identify them, and how to cope with them in a healthy way. This post also explains decision fatigue and how to reduce it, as well as providing tips for simplifying the holidays and time management.

Stress has, sadly, become a normal part of our daily lives. Our fast-paced world celebrates increased productivity at the risk of our health and mental sanity, and Christmastime is a perfect example of that. I wish we didn’t even have to talk about this, but managing holiday stress needs to become a normal part of our Christmas planning.

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