Category Archives: Homemaking

Here’s a January decluttering/refreshing/cleaning mission for today:Is there anywhere in your house where there is something that is just dirty? I mean, as in pretty much nasty? I’m not talking about cleaning out the garage or the basement. I mean some not-that-big spot that needs attention but doesn’t get it often enough because you don’t […]

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What are Mondays like at your house? Productive? Chaotic? Gone-all-day? We are usually home for at least part of the day on Monday and things are usually productive. Monday is pretty much always a laundry day for us, we’re launching our school week, and we often need to tidy up from the weekend. For today’s […]

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It’s {pretty, happy, funny, real} Thursday over at Like Mother, Like Daughter. And over here at In My Kitchen, In My Life, we are decluttering/refreshing/cleaning our houses to start the year off right. Wednesday’s task was to make an improvement in a bathroom. I worked in our main floor half bath, where we have a […]

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Our things are a reflection of who we are, who we want to be, and who we’d like others to think we are. “This is my sense of style.” “I disdain paying attention to style.”  “I am afraid to be different.” “I am proud to be different.” “I prefer to have the best version of […]

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Two days ago I challenged all of us to re-organize a kitchen cupboard or drawer. I chose to work on the cabinet under our double sink. This is where we keep a bucket of potting soil for quicky seeding or planting jobs, scouring pads, a couple of cleaners, extra dish soap, and a container to […]

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It’s Thursday, so it’s {pretty, happy, funny, real} day over at Like Mother, Like Daughter, a blog where I find much to respect. (Bloggers, you can join in the fun, too. See the bottom of Leila’s post for instructions about how to link up with your own post about what’s p,h,f,r at your house this […]

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YesterdayI did a lot of work in the kitchen, but before I got started dicing and mixing and stirring and baking, I knew it was worthwhile to prep myself and my kitchen. These practices are part of what it means to think like a professional. To prep myself, I put on a top with sleeves that would stay […]

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