I’m an unlikely gardener. Contrary to my love of nature and interests in a natural lifestyle, there’s just something that really never clicked well for me: growing “green things”. Even though I love plants, unless it’s a “plant of steel” houseplant, it usually doesn’t make it. When we bought all of our seeds and our…
One year ago yesterday, I said YES to changing our lifestyle. It wasn't a decision that I made lightly. In fact, it was one I researched for nearly a year before deciding. That YES to living as toxin-free as possible literally changed our lives for the better. I had already been conscious about what we…
We spent the last weekend of June in Kansas. We weren’t necessarily planning on a trip to Kansas but we had another loss in the family and needed to attend the funeral of my paternal grandmother. We knew it would be a part ofour year, it was just an uncertainty of when. We hopped on…
Happy May!! I love when new months also fall on a Monday. It’s a little bit silly but something feels extra exciting about the freshness of it. Last Friday I also started a new year of life. Last year was a good one and this one is going to be even better. We have lots…
The rollercoaster ride started in January with the prognosis that the chemotherapy wasn’t working and she had 1-6 months. There were no solutions other than some that were natural based but had high success. A trial came up and she was accepted but the ride only got more chaotic. March was filled with switchbacks, rises,…
The sun is shining in the window this morning and the morning light is hitting my table as I sit here to write. Pennsylvania seems to be more cloud and dreary rather than sunny. It makes me miss the sunshine we had in Colorado but also makes me appreciate the sun even more when it is…
We’ve been in an awkward place of stressed out of our minds of the chaos and demands of moving and appreciating how blessed we are that all is coming together. I don’t think that either one of us expected the complexity of the relocation process with all of the people involved. There’s been countless hours…
I used to read about other women and moms having “tribes”, or groups of other women & friends, that carried them along life. They would share stories about how every woman should have that tribe of women, how vitally important it is to have one and not walk through life alone. I had friends but…
It was the winter of 2006 I had the horse trailer packed with my belongings, our cat in the car and I was headed to Colorado to finally start a life with Ryan. It was ten months of long distance for us and we were thrilled to be in the same state and the same apartment….
I remember what it felt like when I decided I was going to massage school, the excitement of learning something new that would actually help people. It felt like I had a purpose. Instead of being an office manager like I was used to being I was going to be making a difference. I got…
He started to walk this week. I’m having a hard time getting past the fact that we’re edging closely to the one year mark as it is but here we are with a thriving little boy who turns eleven months next week that eagerly started walking…really walking on Monday. He’s been toodling around with his…
I’m currently walking a line of abundant gratitude for so many things and a undesirable drab mentality. If you know me well you know that I walk a line of optimism and gratitude far more than anything else, or at least that something I tell myself regularly to keep focused on the good stuff rather…
We were completely overjoyed with the fact we were having another baby, we joyfully anticipated B’s arrival. Two children was a dream of ours that we thought was out of reach after we tried so hard the first time around. We had gotten used to the idea of just being a family of three, then…
When the calendar switched over the April last Friday it felt like a great big exhale. March was a rough one filled with lots of things tossed our way all at once. A was sick one week, we had bit of a dog scrap that landed us unexpectedly at the vet. Then my grandma was diagnosed…
Four years ago today we learned we were going to be parents. I walked out of the bathroom with that pregnancy test after getting ready to head to work on that Saturday morning. The day we had literally been waiting years for had come. I remember her first sonogram, her first kick and the day…
Focus. Present. Intentional. All words that have been on my heart lately. When I saw that focus was the word for Five Minute Friday, a weekly 5 minute writing challenge I’ve considered joining weekly for far too long, I felt the gentle push to take the plunge. It’s so easy for my brain to all…
Happy Wednesday, friends. A couple of weeks ago I shared this on Instagram: “Occasionally I let A get a Lunchable at the store…… And every time she gets the it out of the fridge the next day, she opens it and takes out the cookies and puts them on the counter until she’s eaten the…
Blessed. That’s exactly how I would describe this life I live. I have a handsome husband who knows me and gets me better than anyone else and loves our family so well. A healthy, smart and darling daughter that wows me every single day. A healthy growing baby boy in my belly preparing to make…
For the past five years, I have picked a word of the year. I simply decide I’m going choose a word and then wait and see what word really laid on my heart. When I think too much about it I become overwhelmed but when I let something just come to me – it’s always…
It was a.day. The kind of day where I found myself in the kitchen at lunchtime with my baby boy needing picked up, the dogs whining to come inside, lunch needing stirred and my daughter wanted to be picked up because “I just want you mommy” all while battling a migraine and this toothache that…