I will be honest, I am not a fan of Valentine’s Day. I feel like buying and receiving a card, flowers, candy and gifts just because it is a holiday feels not genuine and extremely wasteful. I also don’t love receiving things that I don’t actually need or love. I mean, how many of the […]

April is here! It is the month of showers to bring those May flowers. The month of bulbs starting to pop up from the ground. And to many it is a month dedicated to the environment. April is home to Earth Day and some have dubbed the month Earth Month, a month-long emphasis on the […]

A few weeks ago I shared my bathroom organization update featuring the new The Home Edit by iDesign line of bathroom products for The Container Store (see that post here). Since then the pictures of my bathroom have been shared all over Instagram – from The Container Store (here) and iDesign (here) all the way […]

A few weeks ago, my family took a road trip and rented a house near the beach for two weeks. I was definitely excited about the change of scenery but for us that meant changing scenery AND continuing to keep a bubble around our family. Were we crazy to be leaving our quarantined family bubble […]

On a regular basis, I get a ton of questions about living with Hashimoto’s (an autoimmune disease). The questions come mostly from Instagram but also from clients directly. A few weeks ago on Instagram I asked what people truly wanted to know about when it came to living and organizing my life around having an […]

What’s the one item that automatically makes you feel put together? Maybe it’s a piece of jewelry, a go-to hairstyle, or a bit of blush and mascara to make you feel awake and ready to take on the day (or at least look like you are awake!).

True story: last week I had to take a power nap after dropping my kids off at school. The 5-minute walk home from school expended the remaining little energy that I had and I needed to fall asleep. Never in my decade of being a parent had I taken a nap “on the job”, but I could not respond to an email, get out my girls’ snacks, or deal with the mail and incoming packages at my doorstep until my body had a break. Kind of sounds pathetic, right? That kind of exhaustion is a tiny peek into what my life with Hashimoto’s disease is like.

When I was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s disease, I was given a list of things that I could no longer eat, ingest, apply to my skin, etc.*. To say that I was overwhelmed would be a vast understatement, as the list was not only extremely long, but also included a lot of ingredients that I wasn’t familiar with. After further research, I realized that the ingredients that were found in my shampoo, lotions, storage containers, down to the type of cotton balls I use were no longer safe for me to use. Around the same time of my diagnosis, I saw an ad on Instagram for Brandless. Have you heard of the company?

As a professional organizer, I should probably tell you that I love Spring cleaning, right? I should probably tell you getting things organized for Spring is a breeze in my home because every room is already perfectly in place and that since we don’t have clutter the process takes minutes to keep up. I mean, it’s literally my job to help people declutter and get their homes in order, but that doesn’t mean that my home always is neat all the time. We are an active family of four and we LIVE in our house. It will never be perfectly neat and that is ok with me.

Ever since I shared on the blog that I was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s Disease (more on that here), I’ve received so much support and even more messages from people who are dealing with their own autoimmune diseases. Also, my eyes were opened to how many people are truly interested in learning more about my green lifestyle, and while I am still learning my new normal, I’m grateful to have an outlet to share my journey!