Learning Well

Do your favorite cookbooks inspire you to cook more? They totally do that for me! When I'm standing in a friend's kitchen, I usually find my eyes going to their cookbook shelf, pulling a few off and seeing what's inside.

A great cookbook can inspire me to use different ingredients, plan better menus for my family and try new things. But we can definitely get stuck in a cooking rut. A new cookbook can get you out of it!

This post will show you over 11 of my very favorite cookbooks for myself and my kids. I've gone through each cookbook and shared why I love them and some of my favorite recipes from each as well!

Enjoy…and get ready to be inspired to cook!

Head HERE for all the show notes: https://www.aliciahutchinson.com/cookbooks/

Christmas brings so much joy and activity--but what happens when that joy gives way to stress and overwhelm. The season is much too short to spend it stressed out. This year, let's have a more peaceful holiday.

We've gone too far sometimes and loaded our holiday plates too full. We need to prioritize the Christmas season and decide what's most important before the season gets away and leaves us in a total funk.

I've had Christmases like that. The ones where I'm overwhelmed for 3/4 of December, Christmas day hits before I'm prepared, and I'm so bummed I've let it get so crazy!

For me, I want this year to be different than those overwhelmed years. I want a peaceful holiday. And I know you do too.

Get all the show notes here: https://www.aliciahutchinson.com/how-to-have-a-peaceful-holiday-this-year/

Feeding a large family, homeschooling a wide variety of ages, scheduling work time and more….

Every week on the podcast, I'm releasing a bonus Q+A episode full of your questions. I've seen other podcasters do this and I love listening in to the random questions that come in.

This week, we're talking feeding a large family without feeling like you're drowning, homeschooling all the ages, scheduling work time, and lots more!

Below you'll find the show notes and the list of questions and their timestamps.

SHOW NOTES: https://www.aliciahutchinson.com/46/

1. [1:26] When homeschooling such a wide range, how do you manage time for everyone each day? Help! 2. [5:34] How can we get Noah + Kait to fall in love? Jack + Clara?? Not weird, right?? 3. [6:13] Feeding a large family with a baby in the house? Feels like I'm drowning! 4. [9:42] Share some of your homeschooling high school experiences + wisdom! 5. [14:12] How do you schedule work time and stick to it?

Christmas brings so many things for our brains to hold; gift lists, checklists, addresses, recipes, dates to remember and so much more. Post-It notes are not going to cut if for this occasion. We need a place we can hold everything in one place.

Are you like me on this? You see the PERFECT gift idea for that hard-to-buy-for person on Instagram or read a great gift list post, then your kid needs help with something, you get pulled away from the great idea and then *poof!*the idea is gone forever.

BUT, what if you had the perfect little spot to keep right by your computer, in your purse, in your back pocket (??) and always have it close at hand to capture those great ideas into a list. This is a much better option than *poof!* *poof!* Am I right!?

I once read that you should really begin thinking about Christmas on November 1st. I'm not always great at this, but I am committed to being proactive this year and being ahead of the game and get my shopping and planning done early this year.

I've always had a holiday planner, but a few years ago, I decided to create a Christmas bullet journal.

Listen in for all the details!

Get the show notes: https://www.aliciahutchinson.com/christmas-bullet-journal/

Meal planning, delegating, homeschooling high school and everything in between...Every week on the podcast, I'm releasing a bonus Q+A episode full of your questions. I've seen other podcasters do this and I love listening in to the random questions that come in.

This week, we're talking about meal planning, saying yes and saying no, skincare and makeup, and lots more!

1. [1:14] Meal Planning...what is working for you right now?

2. [3:28] Do you sleep? Seriously how do you do it all? What do you delegate?

3. [7:41] What are your favorite skincare and make-up products?

4. [11:49] Will you come make my house as cozy as yours?

5. [13:46] Anything you wish you would've done differently for homeschooling high school?

6. [16:30] How did you put your home on VRBO to pay for your trip to Europe?

Get all the details, links and show notes here: https://www.aliciahutchinson.com/q+a-v/

We recently had the dreamiest family vacation. We traveled to Germany and Austria. You can read about how we budgeted and planned too. The most unexpected thing that happened on the trip for me: the lessons learned in Europe.

I wasn't expecting it. I was prepared to have the trip of a lifetime and see amazing things. But the life lessons? I wasn't prepared for that.

Over our 10 days in Europe in learned a lot about myself. I realized how insanely fast my pace is and how it needs to stop. I observed a lot of behaviors from the Europeans and watched how they carried themselves, how they parented their kids, how the ate their meals even!

(I'm a big people watcher.)

Here's what I learned from traveling to Europe.

See all the show notes and details here: https://www.aliciahutchinson.com/lessons/

This week, we're talking about homeschooling with toddlers, when to work out, my fall reading list, and lots more!

Get all the links and details from this episode here: https://www.aliciahutchinson.com/qa-4/

There are many different systems and tools to make laundry a little less daunting, but if you're in a rut--you need a pick-me-up! (And I do too!) So, in this episode of the Over at Alicia's podcast, we're talking all about the Great Laundry Debacle.

We'll cover some very different laundry system tactics, tricks and hacks, and some tools that just might help laundry day get a little more fun.

For all the details from this show: https://www.aliciahutchinson.com/laundry/

Let's hang out for another round of Q+A! This week we're talking mom guilt, knowing when you're teaching the right things in your homeschool, if you can be too early to start homeschooling, routines and more!

Get the show notes and all the details from the episode here: https://www.aliciahutchinson.com/qa-3/

The world is running at too fast of a speed. We can't slow it down, but we can slow our own pace and run our own race. Let's talk about daring to be a different kind of family...the kind that might say NO to what everyone else is saying YES to. The different kind of family that might not join in the thing that everyone else is joining, just to preserve our time together.

Head here for the show notes: links from the episode and a book list about breaking the busy pace: https://www.aliciahutchinson.com/different/