If you have kids, chances are good that your house is cluttered more often than it’s clean. For a long time, we tried to establish a routine of cleaning up our stuff every evening before bed. For the kids, that mostly means putting all their toys where they belong. For mom and dad, that means hanging up our jackets and putting away our purse and laptop bag (respectively).

You can probably relate with how this worked for our family. Instead of a quick and easy tidying-up-time (seriously, it should not take 20 minutes to put blocks in a box), every…

Well, it’s that time of year again… cold and flu season. In the last two weeks, each member of my family has come down with a cold, ending with me. When canceling playdates I would tell my friends, “Yes, we’ve all had it… except me, thank goodness!” Wouldn’t you know, bragging about it has come back to bite me.

We don’t usually go to the doctor for head colds or minor cases of the flu, because your doctor is probably going to say, “Get lots of rest and drink plenty of fluids.” Thanks, doc, but I could have done that on my…