We were actually able to move all of our regular bath towels in here and all the hand towels that will be used in this room!

At some point, I had to start figuring out how I was going to keep my house clean, grow my blogging business, tackle our renovations, and have a normal family life, all at the same time, regardless of what phase of life we were in.If I didn’t just start getting stuff.

, then it was just never going to happen.Right now, Kennedy’s got a crazy travel soccer schedule, Jack’s a typical “into everything” 2 year old, and we’re up to our neck in bathroom and kitchen renovations.It’s so easy for me to feel like I’m a blogger with no time to blog, and a housewife with no time to house, until I remember these little secret weapons that I’ve learned over the last few years, and probably really perfected when Jack was a little baby that I couldn’t.

Lately, I feel like I’m really picking up steam and getting a lot of the things done on my list around the house, and in my work life too.All just by sticking to these little tricks I’ve learned for making the most of my time!

I thought I’d share some of them with you today, partly because I feel like these things are pretty much the keys to the universe, and partly just because some of you have asked.

This quote always makes me laugh:.I mean, I practically had to duck because there were just too many ideas to handle!

I narrowed it down to just a few of my favorites though, so here they are!.The first idea I had was to add some black and white photos to our simple dining room tree.

I love the look of photo ornaments on a tree and I’ve wanted to do something like that for  a long time, but the idea of making an ornament out of each and every photo that I wanted to use always seems so daunting to me.So this is the super simple version!.