I used to feel guilty because my kids don’t have a lot of daily chores. Then I started making chore lists for the kids on Saturdays like my mom used to do. Saturday chore lists are magical. Grace and Noah have fully embraced them, and I have learned (once again) that I need to find…
Every year on January 18th I take one picture every hour from the moment I wake up until I go to bed that night. I end up taking pictures of the ordinary – supper prep, cranky kids, trips the library, a cup of coffee, my computer screen. These ordinary pictures are actually quite extraordinary. They are my everyday. They…
Year end reviews have always been popular in the blogging world. It has been years since I’ve shared a collection of my most popular posts from the year, so yesterday I sat down to look at the numbers. I pulled up all of the traffic my blog received in 2017, and what I found really…
This post contains affiliate links. I am pretty honest about my struggles here. If you’ve been reading Simply Rebekah for even a short amount of time, you’ll know that one of my biggest struggles is cleaning. I hate cleaning. My personality type (ESFP) doesn’t handle structure and routines very well. Instead, I love to live…
This post contains affiliate links. My Miracle When Noah was born in 2012, we received a bill for several hundred dollars that wasn’t covered by our insurance. Someone at the hospital suggested that I request a deduction in the bill, and we ended up needing to pay only $10! The massive reduction of that bill was…
This post contains affiliate links. Welcome to the 7th Annual “A Day in the Life of…” photography project! Every year on January 18th I take one picture every hour from the moment I wake up until I go to bed that night. I end up taking pictures of the ordinary – supper prep, cranky kids, trips the…