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A Gentle January Reset for Families (No Pressure, Just Calm)
A gentle January reset for families who want calm, not pressure. Simple routines, soft decluttering, and cozy home ideas to ease into the new year without overwhelm. January has a strange energy. After weeks of celebration, noise, and full calendars, the world suddenly asks us to be organised, motivated, refreshed, and ready to start again — all at once. And just when, really, all we want to do is rest and digest. If you’re a parent, that pressure can feel even heavier. As school, work, and everyday chores start again, the last thing you need is the added weight of all the shoulds. I should go to the gym.Cook better.Clean more.Produce…
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How to Prepare Your Home Before a Trip (So You Return to Calm, Not Chaos)
This is my simple, family-friendly guide to prepare your home before a trip so you can leave without stress and return to calm. I used to love the hours before leaving for a trip: that mix of excitement, anticipation and the feeling that soon you’ll step out of your everyday rhythm and into something a little more magical. Then I became a mom! And when that happened, what used to be a time thrilling time, has become a full on overwhelm / anxiety time with a million things to do and, lets’ be honest, a complete lack of understanding from the rest of the family about why you are getting stressed and…
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A Realistic Family-Friendly Christmas Declutter Guide for an Organized Home This Holiday Season
A realistic and family friendly Christmas declutter guide with tips for stress free holiday decluttering spree The festive season is full of magic, twinkling lights, and the smell of Christmas cookies in the oven… but let’s be honest, it can also bring clutter, chaos, and that creeping feeling that your house is suddenly too small for all the holiday excitement. If the thought of holiday home prep makes you break into a cold sweat, take a deep breath. You don’t need to embrace minimalism or spend days purging your life of stuff. Instead, you can take a realistic, family-friendly approach to Christmas decluttering that keeps your home feeling festive, cozy, and manageable — and…
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Make this a Stress-Free Christmas at Home: Simple Tips for a Calmer, Happier Holiday Season
Easy, realistic tips for a stress-free Christmas at a home; create a calmer, easier Christmas with these simple family-friendly tips. Stress-free holiday ideas, gentle home prep, and meaningful moments for a joyful season. Christmas is one of my favourite times of the year… and also the one most likely to make me feel like I’m juggling 10 million things at once. Considering I am usually juggling a million of them at any given time, you can imagine this extra if more that sufficient to make the holiday all but stress free: between school plays, gift lists, cooking, decorating, and trying to keep the house semi-presentable, it’s very easy to go…
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How to Make Your Home Smell Christmassy (Naturally + Effortlessly)
How to Make Your Home Smell Christmassy: easy, realistic and family friendly ways to make your house smell festive this holiday season. Christmas is about all senses: the twinkle of lights, the jingle of bells, the warmth of the fire, the melt-in-your-mouth sweetness of Christmas bakes, and the unmistakable, cozy smell of Christmas itself! There’s something wonderfully grounding about walking into a home that smells like Christmas. Before guests even notice your tree or table setting, the fragrance of your house sets the mood — warm, festive, and instantly welcoming. The good news is that creating that festive home scent is incredibly easy, and you can do it with simple, natural ingredients you…
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How to prepare your home for your first house swap: 11 tips
How to prepare your home for a house swap: practical tips for a perfect experience As a family, our last 6 vacations were all organized with house swaps and they were all very successful for us and our guests/hosts. I love the relation a swap created between you and getting the house ready is part of the fun. There is some work involved, it is not as quick and painless and locking hte door behind you and leave, but the rewards are huge! Getting your house ready for a home swap means make all you can to have happy guests and it comes with perks: you have extra motivation to…
