One of the things that keeps me from feeling overwhelmed by other people’s stuff (and that helps keep me from feeling like a nag at the same time) is our house lost and found. It’s a big basket that we keep on the window seat in the dining room. When I find something laying around [...]
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Two houses, one calendar
Posted in Communication, Logistics, Tips on Dec 4th, 2007
In addition to our single email address, we’ve also set up a shared online calendar. We use Google Calendar, which lets us use as many color-coded sub-calendars as we like, with individual levels of privacy and editing rights. If seeing all of the calendars becomes too overwhelming, we can check a box to display or [...]
Two houses, one email address
Posted in Communication, Tips on Nov 27th, 2007
Last year we set up a single email address for both of our houses. It instantly autoforwards to all of us (Kathy, G, and me) at our individual email accounts. It’s the email address we give to the kids’ schools, summer camp and extracurricular organizations, and this way we all know that everyone gets all [...]
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Katherine Shirek Doughtie is the mom. She is the author of Aphrodite in Jeans: Adventure Tales about Men, Midlife and Motherhood, and also blogs at Kathy's Blog.
Jill Davis Doughtie is the stepmom. She can also be found at Pasadena Housewife, Eye Level Pasadena, and friendfeed/jilldoughtie.
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