Rage Against The Minivan

This post was sponsored by Best Fiends Remember road-trips when you were a kid? I do. Standing up behind your parents in the front seat. Rolling around in the back of a station wagon. Draping yourself over all manner of siblings and seat backs in order to get comfortable. The utter lack of regard for seatbelts. Those were the (highly questionable) days, kids. Back then, family road trips meant stuffed-full cars and playing the license plate game on long, empty stretches of highway. If you . . .

This post is sponsored by Clorox. I've mentioned before that we recently downsized and moved into a home we used to live in. We went from about 2300 sq. ft. to about 1400 sq. ft. I have no regrets because the pool and the friends they have in this neighborhood mean that my kids are rarely inside the house. But still, we've had to be strategic about our use of space.  The kids are sharing bedrooms again, which means that we no longer have space to have desks in their rooms. I decided to . . .

Clothing subscription box showdown! Stitchfix vs. Trunk Club vs. LeTote. I'm sharing boxes from each brand, and talking about the pros and cons. An honest look at what I like and don't like about each service. . . .

Daylight savings time, man. We are still recovering over here. It's always a hard transition getting my kids back to that schedule when their body clocks have adjusted to waking up an hour later. This morning getting them out the door was not fun. Although, despite my complaining about the transition, I actually prefer when the days "spring forward." I like longer days and more light in the evenings, and personally, wish that we could just keep the clocks that way year-round. This time of year . . .