This budget planner is designed to help you set and meet your financial goals. It is part of our low-stress goal setting series where we are setting intentions for our year and then creating actionable steps that evolve with the season of life. If you want to read more about it, you can visit the first post here – Vision Casting and Goal Setting –
Free Printable Planner Pages
Print these daily and weekly planning pages as often as you want. Create a planner or a planning notebook, or just print off pages to help you manage a particularly stressful week. Planning – it’s typically something you love or hate. Some people spend hundreds of dollars on planners and planning accessories. Some people, like my mom, are still using the same $5 paper calendar
Vision Casting and Goal Planning – Any Time of Year
Resetting your year doesn’t have to start in January. You can set intentions for your family and your life anytime. These printable guides will help you set intentions with actionable steps, and then help you reach those goals with practical printables. Are you already feeling overwhelmed with the New Year? It’s usually about this time that I feel like I’ve already failed. My resolutions are
Fewer, Better Toys – The Ultimate Simple Gift Guide for Kids
There’s no denying that our world has changed. We, as a country, have leaned in to our family relationships. We have spent more time at home and even changed the way we attend school and work. One unexpected side effect is that we have collectively learned is that we have too much STUFF. Books and TV shows like Tidying Up with Marie Kondo and The
Seeking Simplicity: How to Take a Break from Your Phone
Now’s the time for making resolutions – to challenge ourselves to start fresh or to gain a new perspective. For me, that looks like trying to change what I eat and develop new Spiritual disciplines, going to bed earlier and waking up earlier, and getting ahead of housework so that I don’t drown in laundry. Some of those things will fall away, hopefully some of
Fewer, Better Toys: Gift Ideas for a Less Stressful, More Purposeful Christmas
Christmas shopping doesn’t have to be stressful! Decrease overwhelm by putting fewer, but more purposeful gifts under the Christmas tree this year. Have you ever gotten done with the Holidays and felt so overwhelmed by all the piles of stuff that have accumulated around your house? I’m not talking about dirty dishes and laundry (although those do tend to pile in our house, too!), I’m
My Daughter Only Has 3 Pairs of Shoes – How to Declutter Your Family’s Wardrobe
Find out how we declutter our family’s wardrobe and how we keep it simple. Plus, discover why decluttering our closets and building a better wardrobe is allowing us to live a simple, easy life. If I told you my daughter only has 3 pairs of shoes, would you think I was crazy? You wouldn’t be alone! Now, to be honest the number of shoes my daughter
The Best Budgeting Resources – Simple Living Made Easy
From creating a budget to shopping smarter, I’m sharing the best budgeting resources to help you live simply. This is simple living made easy with practical tricks and hacks to help you live within your means. There’s all this hype around ‘living simply’ right now. From the tiny house movement to minimalism, and all of that is great, but what does it mean for real
Finding Freedom – Thriving as a One Income Family
Finding Freedom – Thriving as a One Income Family I have talked in the past about Why We Choose to Live on One Income and 10 Steps to Take in Becoming a One Income Family, but I wanted to dive a little deeper into the topic. I shared the philosophical reasons behind our decision, as well as some of the sacrifices we make and why we
Best Gift Ideas to Encourage Pretend Play
The Best Gifts for Open Ended Play is part of our series of gift guides featuring more than 50 Intentional Gift Ideas for Kids. Check out the whole series here to find great gifts that encourage open-ended play, develop imagination, promote active play, and foster creativity. For our house, we have chosen a pretty specific ‘toy style’. When we buy a toy, I go through a