If you're not yet an owner of one of these magical things, you should be. Especially if your location is headed into summer. I put ice water into mine this past Sunday afternoon, left it on my nightstand for 48+ hours, and it was still full of ice on Tuesday night. Truly miraculous. So here's how you get one for free if you want one:

I created a FREE 15-page guide and workbook to help you plan a holiday season that has more joy and ease than overwhelm and stress. It will help you figure out what matters, learn some tips to create more joy and ease, and plan ahead so that you feel completely together when it comes to celebrating this year's fall and winter holidays.

Here are our top tips for keeping your car organized, with videos and links!

I am a huge fan of our Instant Pot (we have this one, if I were buying today I’d get this one). We use it multiple times per week, and in this post I’ll share (and add to over time) our favorite recipes!

After being gifted an Amazon Echo Dot in 2017, it has become a super helpful tool in our household. We now use it 6 connected devices throughout different rooms in the house (we have 1 Echo Dot Kids, 1 Echo Dot with Clock, 3 Echo Dot 3rd Gen, and 1 Sonos TV Sound Bar). Here are some of my favorite ways we are using it. I know the skills keep growing - would love to hear in the comments how you are using yours!

There are few things that give me more satisfaction than the process of sitting down to write something to share with the world. This little space on the internet gives me a way to do that, and while it’s being viewed by millions, it has been visited by tens of thousands of people. That is meaningful to me.

This is the most popular content people read in 2020 here at jessicaeastmanstewart.com.

Thoughts on the compatibility of being a reader while also being a parent, and 15 books I most loved in 2020, including fiction and non-fiction.

If you have a theme or word for your year, how do you honor it? How do you keep it front and center so that you’re not wondering by March, “What was my word again?”. How do you squeeze all of the goodness of that strong reflection, dreaming, and planning? Here are some of the things that have worked for me over the years - which might be meaningful for you?

Know who you are, but don’t let it keep you stuck. Feel your feelings. Be intentional.

This year we’re about a month into enjoying a “Summer Fun List” for our family. We have two little kids, but there’s no reason this idea should be limited to families with kids. Everyone deserves a list of fun things to look forward to making happen!

A few years ago, I let go of guilt that I wasn’t reading many books. You can only do so many things well in a given life chapter. I opted to focus my time on doing impactful work professionally and being a good partner to my husband and mom to my kids. I knew that some day in the future I would get back to reading more.

A friend recently shared a picture of her newly-updated bedroom heading into 2020. She made sure to note that underneath the sheets was the heated mattress pad I had recommended to her several months ago. I love that mattress pad with all of my being, and knowing that my dear friend was also going to enjoy that coziness each night made my day. It also inspired me to want to share more about some of the things I love the most.

So here’s three things I’m loving lately.

As 2019 begins, and my 36th birthday nears in just a few days, I pulled up our list to see how much progress we have made and consider what we might prioritize next. With professional and personal life being a bit intense in these past few years (two kids joining our family, tragic losses in our family, me becoming a maternal near-miss survivor after the birth of our son, and job changes), I had assumed that little progress had been made since we haven’t checked in on the list in a while. I was pleasantly surprised to have completed more of the list than I had guessed.

In our first guest blog, Jonathon Stewart shares about our choice to move to a tankless water heater and what you should consider when making the decision for yourself.

The easiest way I have found to organize them is to simply put two holes into each card using a hole punch, then use these inexpensive book rings to capture all of the cards from a given year together. I typically put our family's card on top and jot down the year in permanent marker.

After we had several months of success with The Daily Five, we realized it would be helpful to get more organized about the other things that need to get done regularly in our house, but that did not need to happen every day. Enter The Weekly List. This is where we added tasks that need to get done each week, assigning them to a particular day of the week.

Last August, I had just gone back to work after maternity leave with my second child. I was exhausted. My work was busy, we had a 2-year-old and a newborn (who, as expected, was not yet sleeping through the night). We were just a year into our new home and had projects going. You know the drill - you're reading this because you are super busy too. 

My husband and I were sitting together after our kids were asleep at the end of our rope - we had to improve how things were working in our household to help things be more sustainable.

The idea we came up with that night has stuck with us for more than a year and has made a huge difference: The Daily Five.

We signed up on the OhmConnect website last fall and since then they've paid us $218 for doing almost nothing.

I love changing up the decor in our home for the seasons and at holidays, but I don't have a lot of time or storage space to hold a huge amount of seasonal decorations. So, for the last few years, I’ve been finding a way to meet both needs by using free printables that I find online in inexpensive frames that we’ve collected over the years.