Lifting the Kids’ Lunch to Healthier Heights: 8 Easy and Healthy Lunch Ideas
If you have kids then you know lunch can be artful negotiation mixed with repetitiveness or persistent reinvention. Kids often want to eat PB&J, pasta, chicken nuggets or a sandwich. And they want it over and over. If you’d like to add some variety to your kid's...
Car Cleaning Tips
Mini Maid focuses a lot of attention on your home’s cleanliness. It’s our business. Kitchens, bathrooms and dining rooms, oh my! But what often gets overlooked during a lot of busy summer days are our vehicles. Our cars, trucks and vans need some love too. Sometimes...
Keeping Pet Hair Under Control
If you own a cat or dog, you deal with pet hair. You’ll never be rid of pet hair as long as you have hairy pets. The best you can wish for is to control the amount of hair in your home, on your clothes and in your car. There are good practices and essential tools to...
Do Chores Benefit Your Child?
Did you know kids who do chores are more likely to be successful? It’s just plain science. The Harvard Grant Study cited in this Inc.com article pulls out some important findings in the longest running study in history. Kids who did chores had more professional...
Your Backyard BBQ – The Essentials
It’s time to go outside and light up the grill. Well, you’ll probably need to clean it first but right after that it’s time to fire it up and cook some food! Don’t let your hard work go to waste. If you’re going to host an outdoor BBQ, you might as well get the most...
8 Questions To Ask When Considering A Home Cleaning Service
If you’ve never used a home cleaning service before, you probably have a lot of questions. To feel a bit anxious about hiring a company to come into your home and clean is completely natural. But don’t let your unanswered questions linger. Below are eight questions to...
Family Day Trips
You can only visit the Natural History Museum, spend time at your local park and see the animals in the Santa Fe Zoo so many times. Sometimes you need to shake it up with something new and fun. But, you also don’t have a whole weekend either. With the kids out of...
Six Simple Spring Lawn Care Tips
The grass is growing again. The leaves need raking. Trees need trimming. Where did that bare spot in the backyard come from? And why is my grass so pale looking? Who put these weeds in my lawn? Each year our lawns go into hibernation during the winter. Like a big bear...
The Ultimate Spring Cleaning Checklist
Spring is in the air. And so is dust and the urge to clean. Yes, with spring comes spring cleaning. But why spring cleaning? Spring cleaning has some origins in Jewish and Iranian culture and just plain human nature. Spring cleaning is associated with Passover where...
Home Safety: An Ounce of Prevention
We’ve all heard the scary statistics about how many people are hurt or killed at home. The numbers vary depending on the study or source, but it’s estimated that 18,000 people die each year from accidental injuries in their home. The most vulnerable are young and...
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