Chris Radburn – PA Images/PA Images/Getty Images I admit it, I’m a neat freak. Messes give me anxiety. I like my house to look nice. I prefer for everything to be in its place and put away. And when my kids were younger, it went beyond making them clean up their own messes. I wanted...
Guido Mieth/DigitalVision/Getty Images There are few things that can thrill and terrify you both at the same time like people coming over to your house. Even if you’re someone who loves to host (*waves hand*), knowing that people are going to be at your house within 24 hours can truly cure your house blindness, and...
TikTok No matter how old we get, it seems, there’s a part of us that always feels like we’re faking adulthood. Like, excuse me: who signed off on allowing me to take care of children and pay taxes and go to work every weekday? But now and then we get glimmers of the fact that...
TikTok Every now and then, my husband jokes about the “magic counter” in our house. Generally he does this after I tell him he’s left crumbs after making lunch. “Don’t worry, sweetie: that’s the magic counter,” he replies with an impish smile. “The crumbs clean themselves up. I don’t know how it works…” In case...