Simplicity in the Kitchen

Meal Planning can be as easy as one two three!

I love this time of year where the slow cooker takes centre stage and we can enjoy flavor filled meals that only the crock pot can provide.

From corporate boardrooms to casual gatherings the Meal Plan is always a hot topic. 

A casual mention of [...]

Three Tips for a Relaxing Sunday Dinner

Plan, Share and Tidy as you go

I am excited to have a Guest blogger today. Enjoy Eliza’s tips on the Sunday Dinner.

Like Elaine, Sunday Dinner is an important event in our household. It provides everything Elaine says it does. However … yes, there is a however … it can also be a lot [...]

The Value of a Good List

A Good List can save Time and Money 

After we had to turn around and head back home to retrieve the GPS…AKA the Marriage Saver, I realized that with the amount of travelling we do a few lists might make our life easier and surely simplify the travel process.

It also got me thinking about [...]

Time it really Can't be Managed

Time cannot be managed, only how you use it

A friend and I were chatting and she wondered why she had such difficulty getting to places on time and managing her time in general. She wondered if there was a trick to the whole time thing.

Here is a true story of my evolving relationship [...]

Simplify Travel with the GPS

The Gadget of all travel Gadgets…the GPS

The GPS was the one thing that we went back for on our most recent adventure. We made it to the coffee shop, realized we forgot it and went back home for the ‘Marriage Saver‘ . That is what I feel the GPS has done for us while [...]

Simplicity is for Me!

A life Simplified

Over the next 12 months Elaine and  her family are going on a journey to Simplify and Enjoy life to the fullest!

They are not waiting until the children leave to ‘Right Size’ their home, they are doing it now. So the process of selling the beloved family home of 14 years [...]

Planning Day for 2011

This is an updated version of a post I ran last December 2009 that outlined how I do my annual planning. With some updated content I am reposting this valuable planning advice. Read last years post here.  

 Planning Day for 2011 is just around the corner.

It will be a time of reflection, planning and purging. Reflection on [...]

Hurricane Bill and organizing for a storm

Living on the east coast of Canada has been become more adventurous in the past several years. Our weather has become unpredictable to say the least. Winters colder and snow packed, summers wetter and we seem to be getting more hurricane type weather year after year.

In preparation for what may or may not [...]