It’s bouquets-of-freshly-sharpened-pencils ✏️🍂 season. A friend told me she planned to wear a sweater tomorrow even though the temps have just barely dipped below 80. “It’s just time,” she said. And I couldn’t agree more. Sometimes fall isn’t quite the fall we pictured, whether we’re wearing sweaters while it’s still pushing 80 and our hot PSL is making us sweat, or the prayer that the school year would bring a little more structure and rhythm isn’t exactly panning out the way we’d hoped. The...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
Spring is starting to show up here in Nashville — which means school calendars are filling up, sports seasons are kicking off, and many families are starting to think ahead to summer schedules. I’ve been having some great conversations recently with families navigating how their home support is evolving as life gets fuller. If someone in your life is feeling frustrated with their nanny, house manager, or other household support, feel free to pass my name along. I’d be glad to connect. Warmly,...
8 months ago • 2 min read
Hey Reader, A friend said something to me this month that I haven’t been able to shake. “I don’t like who I am in December.” Not because she doesn’t love her family.Not because she’s doing anything wrong.But because everything feels urgent at once and she’s carrying all of it. I hear versions of this all the time. December has a way of revealing what happens when capable, caring parents run out of margin. When the systems underneath daily life are stretched too thin, even the most grounded...
10 months ago • 6 min read
HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM MY HOME TEAM TO YOURS! Dear Reader, Last-minute gifts shouldn’t feel like a scramble or add more clutter. The best ones offer a good laugh, a small luxury, or real rest. They say "I see you." After years of watching what families actually use (and what turns into clutter!) in my past life as a home organizer, I’ve pulled together a short list of easy wins for the people who are hardest to shop for — the father-in-law who insists he has everything (buy this), the stockings...
11 months ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader, If you’ve ever tried to shop for your Boomer mom or dad, you know the pain. Why is this generation so hard to buy for? They actually do have everything. They grew up in the golden ✨age of catalogs, bought all the gadgets as they hit the market, and now they’ve retired with fully-stocked McMansions. 🏡 Every time you ask what they want, they shrug and say, “Oh, we don’t need anything!” Meanwhile, they’re ordering something off QVC before you even leave the room.BUT I’ve learned a...
11 months ago • 2 min read
Hey Reader, Let’s be honest: Do I believe a home management system can make your life run more smoothly?✅ Absolutely Do I believe that December, the busiest, most emotionally loaded month of the year, is the right time to implement one?❌ Absolutely not. Right now isn't about perfection. It’s about presence. Home Team would love to get your family set up in the New Year (and yes, our Home Management Playbook makes a great gift for the Home CEO on your list). But these next six weeks are about...
11 months ago • 6 min read
BOOK A CALL | SPEAKING Hey Reader Let’s be honest: most of us say we want rest, but we don’t really know what it looks like anymore. We think rest means sleeping in, or finally booking that massage. Maybe catching up on laundry or hiring a little help. But real rest — the kind that actually refills you — isn’t a single day off or a perfectly planned vacation. It’s what happens when we build margin into our lives through systems that carry the load for us. It’s the space between doing and...
about 1 year ago • 1 min read
BOOK A CALL | SPEAKING Hey Reader One of the biggest energy drains on our to-do list is research. We know what we need, but it takes forever to sift through websites, reviews, and options. That’s where a ChatGPT Agent comes in. An Agent is like your own personal researcher, it doesn’t just give you an answer, it does the work in the background until the job is done. You hand it the ball, and it runs the play start to finish. You can find this new AI feature here: Here are two examples of how...
about 1 year ago • 1 min read
If you keep living in reactivity, it will catch up with you. I know, because it caught up with me. For years, I thought I just needed to work harder.Push through. I kept telling myself: When things slow down, then I’ll....OR "Its just a season"(Narrator: Things never slowed down.) And that’s what chronic stress looked like in my life. It looked like waking up at 3am—no matter how exhausted I was.It looked like being "up to here" even on the good days.It looked like chasing a number on the...
over 1 year ago • 2 min read