Always working on our home – how to mesh our love of chic design with our love for our kids. There is not a single place in this joint that our girls are not welcomed into with open arms. Which perhaps drives hubby nuts sometimes, since I can often be heard muttering under my breath, [...]

Shannon!
Shannon, you are the lucky gal who gets the very cool daily planner for 2010. Just shoot me an email at mtm@melissathemouth.com and let me know where you’d like me to mail it to and I’ll get it out to you as soon as possible.
Hope you enjoy it!

My whole life is one giant stab at organization. Files, To Do lists, tasks, meal plans, baskets of clothes that need buttons sewn back on, shopping bags with items for return, Hefty bags filled with donations for Big Brothers & Sisters of Utah. It seems I just can’t get away from the constant need to [...]

As part of our plan to simplify our home, my husband and I have had several meetings of our minds about the current toy situation in our home. We have a lot of toys. Or rather, the girls have a lot of toys. So many, that this is usually how playtime goes down…
Girls: Mommy, can [...]

Yesterday afternoon, my husband made a bookshelf for Pea, to house her enormous book collection. He found a print-out of the original, which he used as a jumping off point, in a stack of papers on my desk. I was touched that he took it upon himself to make this his next project. Nothing made [...]

Coco is passionate about butterflies. She’s constantly talking about them, pointing them out in pictures, giving me butterfly kisses with her impossibly long eyelashes.
So one of her birthday gifts was a little collector’s case with a dozen butterflies in it. And for a week, she dragged that box of butterflies with her everywhere she went. [...]

Why do kids have so much stuff? Some days I feel like I’m up to my eyeballs in random collections of nothing. I regularly go through the girls’ toys and make piles for donations. Toys, puzzles and games that are too ‘old’ for them get put away for later days. Broken pieces get mended or [...]

This looks like Pea. It really does. Bright, whimsical, a little bit of a devil-may-care manner. So I am using it as inspiration while we make her room her own. I really wanted to stay with a monochromatic look. But that’s me. Not my little Pea. And so, in an effort to let her be [...]

An end-of-the-year gift to myself: the Comme des Garcons wallet. In gold. A little flashy for my usual tastes, but I had to have it. It spoke to me. And a splurge? Indeed. But when you factor in how many times, per day, that you whip out your wallet, it seems a little more practical. [...]

It’s become a running joke in my house that I’m losing my mind. I can’t remember where I put things. I’m forever leaving things behind. Once? I even drove off with a large stack of mail on the roof of my car. I’ve been using the momAgenda. My friend Sonja and I have been emailing [...]

My friend Sonja sent me an email just the other day asking me how I kept a recorded memory of life with my girls. And that’s a great question. There are so many options that I’ve looked at over the last few years, since my mother gave me a beautiful journal when I told her [...]

Okay, so I am big into storage. No, huge into storage. Of anything. And everything. I firmly believe that every single thing in our home should have it’s place. It’s home. It’s resting place. And if it doesn’t? And I find in on the kitchen island? Or the stairs? Or the floor of my bedroom? [...]

Years ago, my husband gave me a book on gardening that was part of a series called “K.I.S.S.” As in “Keep it Simple, Stupid.” And while the book didn’t do much for me, the acronym? It’s been rolling around in my head now for just short of a decade. But it hasn’t been until very [...]

Okay, I know I’m really late on these tubtrugs. But I have good reason. They were everywhere. For the longest time. And I got so sick of seeing them. And looked the other way. All the while? Had bath toys that could’ve used one. And dog toys that needed one. And outside toys. They all [...]

I have over 22,000 photos stored on my computer. And those are just the shots from my digital camera. In a closet, I have 10 more storage containers, each larger than a shoe box, that I have pictures in that were developed from film. Remember the good old days? I much prefer the digital storage [...]