How to Disable Food Guilt
When you “make it” all week and you feel all the benefits, but you still choose sugar (or whatever your vice) on the weekend. Those times when you do a “successful” whole30, but day 31 comes with a...
View ArticleHealthy Holiday Potluck Offering- Creamy Broccoli Salad
Holiday potlucks and parties can be full of sweets, treats, and buckets of fried chicken. Bringing a plate of veggies isn’t often all that loved, and can end up costing quite a lot. This recipe won’t...
View ArticleStaying Motivated to Workout- 6 Reasons to Switch Up your Workout Routine!
I am coming up on 2 years of consistently having a workout routine. Routine might be a misleading word, as it hasn’t been the same thing every day, at all. And there have been short breaks (maybe 5...
View ArticleHow We Decided to Home School
Initially, we didn’t so much “decide to homeschool” as we decided not to enroll in public school. I made the decision to not enroll in kindergarten after a lot of research, interviewing, and heavy...
View Article#tentruethings
I did this on my IG a while back and it was really fun, and lots of awesome women played a long. I love seeing these snippets of truth. So, here are ten more: {me, in my element} I’ve never eaten a...
View ArticleSmall Home Love, Living Room Tour!
We’ve lived in our home for nearly three years, and still I am finding new things I love about it, new little projects I want to try, and ways to rearrange it (again and again). Our living room has had...
View ArticleGiving the Bathroom a Micro-Makeover! How to make your space guest (even your...
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #QuiltedHoliday #CollectiveBias As a family of four in a small home with one bathroom, we are...
View ArticleFall Abundance Bowl Easy Recipe!
This week is a hectic one, with the Giving Tree (<– That’s the story of the first year, now in year 5, we are serving 250 children!) picking up speed (many trees go up this week!), homeschooling in...
View ArticleQuickie Gift Guide: Stocking Stuffer Fun!
Whenever I wait on stocking stuffer gifts I end up buying one of two ways, either stuff they don’t care about/but need (and, to be fair, this is good sometimes! Socks!) or junk… just little, junky,...
View ArticleLong Term Relationships and Sex, How to improve your sex life. Part One.
Let me start this off with a caveat. If you are my family, friend, or someone otherwise uncomfortable reading not just about sex, but about my views and experience on the topic – Stop Now! No hard...
View ArticleHome Tour- Movement and Cozy, workout and play space.
Our home is small and every room must do double (or triple!) duty. We decided to forgo using the largest space as our bedroom, or the girls’, and instead made it a community space. It is my office, our...
View ArticleHow I Stopped Wanting to Lose Weight- Self Love Learning
The short answer is. I stopped thinking that I needed to. The long answer is; long. Even when I would meet a “goal” I would realize then that I needed to lose more to feel good. To maintain my high, to...
View ArticleSanta Baby
Charlie and I don’t often do gifts that aren’t homemade. Usually he crafts me up some magic in his work shop (last year he made me some gorgeous custom yoga blocks, and recently surprised me with a...
View ArticleRound Up!
I’ve been writing a LOT this past couple months. I wanted to post a few links to posts I’ve written recently that you may have missed. These are my favorites, and ones that seem to have been the most...
View ArticleHappy Thanksgiving
Last night I laid on my mat, finishing up a yoga video with Charlie. It was a gratitude specific practice and at the end the teacher said, “lay into your mat and feel the ground supporting you.” My...
View ArticleOpt OutSide: but first…
We’re about to hit the road to get some green and snow in our lives, but first I wanted to share a few of the amazon deals that are freaking amazing today. This little camera is SO FUN. It’s a perfect...
View ArticleBlack Friday Snow Day!
This Black Friday, we shopped a few deals on Amazon and then hopped in the car and headed off for a snow day! Here are the four things we do to make snow play more successful with kiddos! Pack lots of...
View ArticleMotherhood, My North Star
I have tried to swing the pendulum into different genres when I write. I have tried to step back from talking about motherhood. Over the years I have experienced online bullying, and scary real life...
View ArticleWhy YouTube?
This past weekend I did something that scared me. I started a YouTube Channel. I’ve loved sharing on Snapchat and Instagram this past year, but the slow to load links, 10 second cut off, and...
View ArticleWinter Fashion
I used to post quite a bit of outfit ideas and inspiration here. But as the years have gone by, I’ve felt less and less connected to fashion. What I enjoy wearing seems to shift every two years or so,...
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