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{pretty, happy, funny, real}: Ordinary-Extraordinary

By Lori | Published: August 2, 2012

Pretty The anenome ‘September Charm’ has just started to bloom this week. I look forward to these sweet, five-petaled, soft-pink blossoms every year. Happy The tomatoes are finally arriving regularly from the vines. Six weeks or so of tomato-bliss! And, lots of zinnias to cut for the house from a couple of clumps in the […]

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Cerebral Homemaking Part 4: Blast Physics! We Have to Aim Just a Little Higher

By Lori | Published: July 24, 2012

Previous articles in the Cerebral Homemaking series: Part 1: Wrapping My Head Around My Work Part 2: “Please Lie Down on the Couch and We’ll Begin the Analysis” Part 3: Lofty Thinking — About Vision, Philosophy, and the G Word In the last Cerebral Homemaking article, we talked about developing a vision for our homes and […]

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Cerebral Homemaking Part 3: Lofty Thinking — About Vision, Philosophy, and the G Word

By Lori | Published: July 16, 2012

This is cup-of-tea length, so grab a treat and a pen and paper while you’re at it. Let’s go. Here is the thing: before you can train your homemaking thinking in better directions so you can get better homemaking behavior, you’ve got to begin with the end in mind. I know what you’re thinking – […]

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Five Tips for Planning a Big Party

By Lori | Published: June 27, 2012

Last weekend my siblings and our families gave a fiftieth anniversary party for my parents. My head is still spinning a bit with all of it, but I want to share some things that made our big celebration a big success: 1. Start ahead, start way ahead. It’s not just that you need to schedule […]

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Not Wrapped Too Tight

By Lori | Published: May 11, 2012

So, my siblings, our spouses, and I are throwing a fiftieth anniversary party for our parents at the end of June. We are excited to do this. We are privileged to do this. We are also a little nuts to do this in the way we are doing it, but that’s another blog post.The menu […]

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Basket Case

By Lori | Published: May 1, 2012

 One of our laundry baskets broke all the way, and most of the rest are cracking and going fast. I’m fussy about laundry baskets, not to say picky and perhaps even unreasonable. I can’t stand broken plastic, I want them to nest, and I want them to work very, very well. I know. You didn’t […]

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Unsolicited Advice: “What’s for Dinner?”

By Lori | Published: April 23, 2012

This one of those my-life-is-nearly-always-happier-and-certainly-always-more-serene-if-I-obey-this-rule things. It is very simple. It makes a big difference. Truly. Really. Want to know? It’s called The Ten O’Clock Rule. I’ll wait while you get paper and pencil to make notes. Oh, don’t worry about it — you don’t actually need any because you will never forget this life-changing […]

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Balancing Balance Part XI: When Changes Come – Staying Light on My Feet

By Lori | Published: March 21, 2012

We have spent a good bit of time in this series talking about how to choose and manage the various activities that make up our lives.  We have thought about how to recognize the ways we spend our time. We have discussed how our personal filters act as gatekeepers to let in worthwhile pursuits and […]

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Balancing Balance, Part X: The Home Manager’s Biggest Perk

By Lori | Published: February 22, 2012

The other posts in the Balancing Balance series: Part I: Embracing the Truth Part II: Personal Filters Part III: Do I Have the Right to Choose My Filters? Part IV: Personal Filters for Life Management Part V: What are Your Family’s Gatekeeper Filters? Part VI: Where Does Your Time Go? Part VII: Categorizing My Life’s […]

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Unsolicited Advice: Put Your Servants to Work

By Lori | Published: February 14, 2012

No, we aren’t talking about your kids – that’s another post. This is about your twenty-first century servants, the ones that usurped the positions of human servants not long after the turn of the twentieth century. You know, the ones that heat things up, cool things down, and make things clean. Did you ever read […]

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