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My Brilliant Plan for How to Plan

2017-03-14 aprilmomoffour answered prayer, books, organizing, parenting, prayer

**This post does contain affiliate links, which means that when you purchase through links on this page, April collects advertising fees from Amazon.** Was I always a little flaky? I don’t know. For years, I could get away with being very loosy-goosy with my planning because I was a stay-at-home mom of preschoolers. We moved all the time too, so by the time people developed expectations of me, we were off and away to the next town. Over the years, […]

Stories of Our Boys’ Top 10 Posts of 2015

2015-12-29 aprilmomoffour blog, blogging, Classical Conversations, faith, God, home school, organizing, vacation

2015 was a happy year here, full of it’s own challenges, triumphs, and best of all, adventures. I put together this look back at my 10 most popular posts from the year. By popular, I mean that these are the posts that were read by the largest number of people. First, a few stats from our past year at Stories of Our Boys: You might have read all 156 blog posts. You are reading this from 120 different countries. JenerallyInformed.com was the […]

How to Build a Family Schedule That Works

2015-10-30 aprilmomoffour big family life, books, home school, homeschool, organizing, parenting

I have never been a highly scheduled person. I dabbled with the baby feeding schedules, but for some reason I could never get the babies to understand my plan. “No, no, no, little one. You see, right here on the 9:00 hour, the schedule clearly states that you are to be asleep. WHY YOU NO SLEEP?????” I get it. All schedules must have wiggle room. Life doesn’t go as planned. Ever. Well, sometimes, maybe? I married into a family […]

The Great Toy Overhaul

2015-10-05 aprilmomoffour blog, blogging, family, little boys, organizing, parenting, photography, toddlers

My successful Mom’s Night was made possible due to the Great Toy Overhaul. What’s that, you ask? Prepare to be shocked: This has been bothering me for about 8 years. Five different rooms with toys in them, all reachable by children, all mixed in. Cars in the blocks box, dinosaurs in with the Little People, and basically not a single fun set because what makes sets fun is having the whole set together. But how???? I’ve re-sorted toys a billion […]

Creating Our Home school Schedule

2015-08-27 aprilmomoffour blogging, family, funny stories, home school, homeschool, organizing

For my first year of home schooling, I worked out a schedule and adjusted it repeatedly until it WORKED. That was last year. I had a one-year-old. Year 2: Three weeks in. I now have a 2-year-old, which means less nap time. I also added in teaching time for the 3rd kid. That’s right. Daniel was 3 last year, so I wasn’t actually spending much time teaching him. Plus, we decided to return to kids’ sports. Oh, and I now […]

Little Girls: Not So Different

2014-04-13 aprilmomoffour organizing

Today Alan and I helped out with 1st and 2nd grade children’s church. The usual teachers were out of town, but they left their young adult children to teach the class. They just asked Alan and me to come and help with crowd control. Easy job for us. I felt like such a tough guy–being in charge of behavior. I had to put forth extra effort not to let this role get to my head because I was on a […]

The Year of Getting Organized

2014-03-22 aprilmomoffour 4 kids, baby milestones, big family life, birthday, books, Caleb, Daniel, de-cluttering, decluttering, goals, little boys, nap, New Year's goals, organizing, pictures, rest, snow, The Great Clean Out, toddlers, toys

I’ve written gobs of blog posts where I’m really bad about never going back and letting you know how that all turned out. This is my goal for tonight: lots of updates!! Update #1: The Great Clean Out inspired by reading Money Saving Mom‘s book: It’s sort of an odd time to suddenly be all about organizing my house: we are moving in JUNE. However, we are drowning in TMS–too much stuff–so I have been plugging away at “The […]