While my granddad was visiting us here in Pennsylvania, we tried to find a variety of places he would enjoy visiting and that we hadn’t experienced yet either. One of the places that we chose was the Lehigh Valley Zoo. I think this might be the first place we’ve gone that I wouldn’t recommend people…
I’m standing here in the middle of week thirty-three and I’m not sure how I got here. This pregnancy has been nothing short of a whirlwind and I’m feeling blown away we are so close to meeting our sweet boy. He’s an active babe and I’m convinced he’s regularly breakdancing in my belly. Yesterday A…
I believe there’s a misconception that if someone is leading healthy or toxin free life they have to avoid every circumstance where they could encounter those things. While this may be true for some based on preference, the reality is it’s not easily attainable in normal every day life’s circumstances. We are going to encounter…
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…
Earlier this year, we discovered a pop-up camper online and decided we just had to have it. It was about an hour and a half away in Philadelphia, so we loaded up the kids in the car and went down to check it out. Getting a new camper was on our list to invest it…
The fact that summer is half over already feels a little crazy to me. I'm not sure where the time goes these days but I will say it's felt like Summertime! The days are humid in Pennsylvania, much like my own childhood, but the shady evenings are nice when the humidity is low. Our summer…
The Fourth of July felt a little different for us this year. There was the bitterness of missing past traditions when we were in Colorado. The past several years we would spend it with my grandma and granddad with a cookout and fireworks. It was an extra time added to the recent list of missing…
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…
Over Memorial Day weekend we headed up to the Pocono mountains to check out the quiet Valley Living Historic Farm. It’s about 45 minutes away from us and we have been getting out and exploring this new state of ours. The farm isn’t always open like it was last weekend but they have events and…