Kids + Journaling: Their sanity and yours
Kids’ brains get overwhelmed just like ours do. They over process the events of their day and when you add social media to their world, it only magnifies the negativity they’re experiencing.
Mom + Homemade: Dairy-Free Granola Bars
Floored at the price of a single box of the store bought brands, I decided that I could do just the same, if not better, for less. Give this recipe a try and let me know what you think!
Self + Care: Mom Lives Matter
As moms, we know it’s important to take care of ourselves. But let’s be honest, we rarely do what we should. Moms throughout history are great at telling their kids what they need to do and then sacrificing our own health and well-being to make sure they do what we said. And I’m no exception.
Dinner + Victory: Dairy-Free Sweet Potato No Bean Chili
It happened! The elusive night where everyone, even the toddler, ate the home cooked meal I prepared from scratch and LOVED it. Scraped their bowls and asked for more until their stomachs were bursting level of loving it. Please try this recipe at home. I hope you...
Cycles + Weeks: The routines of life
Have you ever noticed that everything in life has a cycle to it? Your house gets clean only to get dirty and then get clean again. You spend each year accumulating stuff, then you clean out stuff, only to get more stuff again. You work to save money, then find ways to...
Mom + Laundry: The never-ending task
Like death and taxes, laundry is a certainty of life. Just when you finish one week’s dirty piles, there’s new ones starting to mount. I’ve attempted to do one load per day, or knocking it all out on a certain day of the week. Or maybe you wash one...
Smoothie + Veggies: Stuff kids actually drink
Breakfast needs to be portable five days out of seven. Personally, I love a good smoothie. The combinations of flavor and nutrition are endless.
Mom + Conversations: Teaching kids the art of the tennis match
It’s happening more and more these days – you try to have a conversation with a teenager and they don’t look you in the eye, can’t take their eyes off their phone, and don’t understand that a conversation goes back and forth. Having a good conversation is something learned, it’s not intuitive, and it starts at home at a young age.
Dinner + Frustration: Wanting to throw in the towel
I know it’s unreasonable to expect that every dinner I put on the table will receive rave reviews. After all, they’re kids. But tonight, I completely lost it and got angry. Maybe it’s because of the huge challenge it is to get dinner on the table – one handed
Movie + Mary Poppins
We are very discriminating when it comes to what we allow our kids to watch, read, and listen to. Very rarely do we see a new movie come out that doesn’t have some kind of content we don’t want our kids exposed to.