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20 Minute Solution. Connecting with your kids, a tidy home, and a growing...
I’ve spent the better part of seven years telling my kids to clean up. Charlie and I are both people who need a clean space to feel productive, capable, and calm. Keeping our home relatively tidy is a...
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Sweet Crunch Granola
This granola is full of all my favorite things. Clusters, nuts, small pieces (I don’t like to have to crunch through a huge piece of… anything!) and dates. I make my nut’ola (paleo/whole30 granola!)...
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Marriage Mantra; Strive to Out-Serve
My husband and I have known each other since we were toddlers, our friendship really grew when we were 11, and we began dating when we were 17, married at 22. We did a lot of things wrong, but one of...
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4 Face Masks to Celebrate Self Love and to Make for Yourself Today!
It’s Valentines week! And everything is pink, red, and amazing (I’ll have my own pink, red, and amazing recipe to share tomorrow!). In all that hubbub, and expense, expectation, and media flurry it’s...
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Love Chocolate Bark, Two Ways!
Tomorrow is Valentines Day! In typical fashion… I’ve got nothing planned. Today we’re cutting some hearts out of paper we already have and writing classmates’ names off a list I found online. So, you...
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Bright Pink Valentine! Banana Beet Collagen Smoothie
Valentines come with a big dose of heavy duty sweets, rich meals, and often a bit too much champagne. This smoothie is a lighter, kid friendly tidbit to toss into your week to keep on celebrating but...
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The Moon Is Always Full-Northwest Yoga Conference 2017
We drove down the road, sleepy round eyed children peeking out the windows and the Full Moon hung giant in the 5am, winter sky. I felt nervous and excited, off to a full day of yoga, learning, and...
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Lifestyle, Style. 8 Ways to Have a More Active Life!
My natural activity barometer leans more in the ‘cozy-snuggle-lethargic’ rather then the ‘take the stairs, always moving. I’ll go grab that runaway ball!’. As such, it’s been a really conscious effort...
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Vital Proteins!
I’ve been using Vital Proteins for over a year now and have tried most all of their products. I want to walk you through their most popular products, what I like about them, what I don’t, how I use...
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Meal Prep Chili; Easy Vegetarian Chili that tastes better each day.
Meal prepping can seem exceptionally overwhelming. However, the more I do it the more I can see how it’s similar to the 20 Minute Solution. It takes a small amount of prep time, and focus, and pays off...
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3 Habits of Sexually Healthy Couples
Whoo-! I wrote awhile back about improving sex in a long-term relationship, and I have been wanting to write more ever since. I shy away from it though, since it’s not a part of my typical ‘mom blog’...
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Veggie Rich Smoothies, that still taste sweet and satisfying.
Smoothies are a go-to snack, or part of a meal, in our home. Often times they can be so super loaded with fruit, and, all blended up, you consume far more fruit than you would if you sat down and ate...
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Enjoying Spring in the PNW; Take it when you can get it! and PrAna Spring...
Spring in the PNW isn’t clear cut, at all. Yesterday (when we snapped these pictures) the sun was bright, and the sky was clear blue. The week before it was nearly 60 degrees and we were dreaming of...
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a peek.
I wanted to share a little life update. There is a lot more happening in our life beyond just meal planning, prepping, eating, and fitness. Though, to be honest, those do take up a lot of my heart and...
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5 Reasons to Try Resistance Training!
Resistance bands travel so well! I have this big set of bands from Zoji fit, they fit easily into a little knapsack and I could pop them into a suitcase without that monopolizing all the room. They...
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Rich and Creamy, Avocado Chocolate Pudding
This is one of those concoctions that can get a major side-eye. Avocado… and chocolate? But, YES. It’s a match made in a fat-lovers healthy heaven. This pudding is rich, creamy, filling, and so easy to...
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Water Color Smoothie; Food as Self Care, Soul Care, and a Gift.
Self-Care has taken two routes for me; the bubble bath/buy new leggings route, and the GET IT DONE work route. Both are effective, a lot of the time, in their own ways. However, self-care being tied to...
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Matcha Chia Pudding Two Ways!
This post has been sponsored by Organic Evolution Matcha, but all thoughts, opinions, and recipes are my own. I’m obsessed with food as self-care. Feeding my heart and soul through my eyes first has...
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Goal Setting- Getting Woo Woo with the Universe
I’ve been really feeling inspired by so many books and podcasts I’ve been listening to. The self-help and empowerment genre are really having a moment, and I’m ripe to eat it up (my babies growing up,...
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At 10am I looked at the clock, deep in labor and my birth tub, I looked at Charlie and my midwife. Pleaded with my eyes and said “I cannot make it till 4pm.” “I don’t think you’ll have to” my midwife...
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