Order Balance Being Well

We have 4 kids, and we both work full time. Organization is key to our house running smoothly and everyone's personal wellness. If you have small children, you know getting them out the door in the morning is stressful. My brain is already checking off all the things that need to happen before we head out the door. Forgetting a lunch is not accounted for in my morning commute time. We always pack lunches the night before. If it doesn't need to be cold it goes right in, no reminder needed. If part of the lunch needs stored in the refrigerator or freezer, we add a clothes pin with the corresponding word on them. We just keep these cheap clothes pins in a jar on the counter. They have fridge, freezer, and sandwich written on them in sharpie. (Sandwich for back when a few of them would only eat uncrushable. Even though it is a freezer item, they were located in a different spot). They get clipped to the bag at night and put back in the jar in the morning, on...

I have my ex-husband to thank for this one. 9 years ago, I was a marine wife and mom. I had twin almost 2-year olds and a brand-new baby at home. My husband at the time was away in California for training for an entire month. Lucky for us, this was the first time we had been apart since we met. However, between being postpartum, having too much to do, no sleep, and just all around being lonely, I was not handling it well. This led to me smashing the top off a pickle jar in our sink because there was no other way it was getting open. I really wanted pickles, and I needed what felt like a win in that moment. When he got back, we had two weeks before he left again for a year. In our pre-deployment preparing he made sure to equip me with an oil filter wrench to open all my jars properly. Never would I have though apart from an auto store would solve this lifelong problem I had in the kitchen.    I highly suggest everyone gets a rubber strap wrench for your kitchen. Like a spat...