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Month: June, 2009

Traditions and Rituals Create Organized Families

26 June, 2009 (04:22) | Parenting | By: Michelle "Chaos Caretaker"

It had not occurred to me how important our family rituals were until my husband connected with an article this morning about blended families and bedtime rituals. As a blended family, with children from both parental components, I have watched the relationships between all of our family members evolve over the course of the marriage. [...]

Redistributing While Organizing

23 June, 2009 (17:58) | Organizing | By: Michelle "Chaos Caretaker"

I really liked this post by Erica Ecker at Stacks and Stacks about a “redistribution basket”.  The idea is that you have a container or basket handy while you organize an area.  When you discover items that are misplaced from another part of the house, temporarily store them in the redistribution basket.  You are then able [...]

Twitter Topics

23 June, 2009 (09:47) | Uncategorized | By: Michelle "Chaos Caretaker"

My husband has made me a believer in the power of Twitter. Small “pocket thoughts” in a running stream of information across the web. It occurred to me that I might be able to harness the application’s power to develop topic areas to blog about. Although my enjoyment for organizing (and dabbling in decorating) has [...]