Life Hacks for Managing Your Busy Family

Life Hacks for Managing Your Busy Family: From how to rock the crockpot and carpool, to organizational apps and tricks, these tips will siphon the crazy out of your week.  | Parenting Advice and Time Management | Sisterhood of the Sensible Moms

Well, it’s official—autumn is here. Although fall is just as likely to punk us as shower us with pumpkin spice everything, we still love it or, at the very least, have to live through it. Sure, jam-packed schedules, rushed meals on the fly, and school’s many demands threaten to take us down, but we have learned a thing or two.

Step 1: Mutter under your breath, “This too shall pass.”

Step 2: Repeat Step 1 often.

Step 3:  Rock the life hacks that keep our families afloat instead of drowning in the carpool.

Life Hacks for Managing Your Busy Family: Mom Taxi Command Central. | Parenting Humor | Sisterhood of the Sensible Moms

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To hear the conversation–or maybe brain dump is a better descriptionwhere we lay it all out for you, just click the player at the bottom to hear our latest podcast. We give up the goods about all the tricks and practices that make our lives work.

Now we mention some really great stuff in this podcast, and since we’re nothing if not helpful, we’re hooking you up with a bevy of links. But you should consider these links the breadcrumbs to lead you back to where you really want to be: listening to our podcast. That’s where it ALL is.

1) We wax awfully poetic about our love for crockpots in this podcast. Two of our favorite crockpot recipes are Apricot Cranberry Pork Tenderloin and French Country Chicken. We get really excited about these, so seriously, go check them out. Now, we don’t mention these other recipes specifically, but we have a whole slew of yummy crockpot meals so if you want more, have at it. We highly recommend it.

Apricot Cranberry Crockpot Pork Tenderloin recipe. Part of our Life Hacks for Managing Your Busy Family |Sisterhood of the Sensible Moms

2) We also mention a favorite recipe planning book that we both use.
Once-A-Month Cooking Family Favorites: More Great Recipes That Save You Time and Money from the Inventors of the Ultimate Do-Ahead Dinnertime Method
Shwoo, that’s a mouthful. Just click on this Amazon link and buy it now. Yes, we get a teeny tiny compensation, but we promise to throw that penny in a fountain and wish happy thoughts for you. If you don’t end up loving or using this book as much as we both do, re-gift it to your sister-in-law. She’s awesome and busier than you anyway. She’ll think you’re a genius for thinking of it.

But you’re probably going to want to keep your copy and buy your sister-in-law a new one because we have a Sisterhood Secret for you right here. In an unusual turn of events, Ellen took organization to a new level and created a coordinated menu of eight of the recipes with a complete shopping list for them all. Yeah.

Once a Month Cooking Eight Recipe Meal Plan with Shopping List. Life Hacks for Managing Your Busy Family. | Sisterhood of the Sensible Moms

Once-a-Month Cooking Eight Recipe Plan. Life Hacks for Managing Your Busy Family. Sisterhood of the Sensible Moms

Click for a fully printable PDF: Once-a-Month Cooking 8 Recipe Menu Plan.

3) We also introduce you to this great gal named Alisa who blogs at Mondays are Forever because she introduced Ellen to the Keep app from Google, our newest tech crush. We might get a little excited talking about this in the podcast. Bringing everything full circle, you can input the menu shopping list mentioned above, and just use it over and over again. Worth checking out, no?

And if you need more of a teaser, we share the do’s and don’ts of carpooling, the school supplies we ALWAYS have in our stash, and a little more about how we juggle all of the balls and why we do it.

Life Hacks for Managing Your Busy Family: Homework on the fly. | Sisterhood of the Sensible Moms

Homework on the fly.

Intrigued? Interested? Desperate to hear a little something funny with a side of sensible?

Well, click that player at the bottom and hear our podcast.

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Thanks for listening!

Erin and Ellen

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3 thoughts on “Life Hacks for Managing Your Busy Family

  1. Alisa

    I can’t wait to listen to this! I can’t risk distracting the easily distracted 3 and 5 year old who are “eating” breakfast right now. (If you can even call it that – it’s more like an interpretive dance with food.) I really need some new dinner inspiration and having to split time between two school is killing me. Did I mention that I’m on the PTA BOARD? What was I thinking??? And oh my goodness, thanks for the mention!! -Alisa

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      1. The Sisterhood Post author

        Hey, Alisa, I don’t think it’s you that’s technology challenged. If you try again, it looks like it’s working correctly now. Thanks for trying to listen. We really appreciate it. Erin

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