Basic, Never Boring
As a homeschooling and traveling mama I spend A LOT of time with my kiddo. And when I say a lot I mean pretty much all day, just about every day. School year or summer, it’s all the same. She is my little sidekick. Generally, I love this and see it as a gift that…
My daughter was eight months old when we purged and packed up our lives to live on the road. She slept like crap, nursed very regularly and I was still deep in the throes of figuring out what motherhood meant for me. What kind of mother did I want to be? Obviously a good one…
What we’re thankful for… I am so thankful for Spring. The days are getting longer, the sun is getting brighter, and here, the snow is FINALLY melting! I’m so happy to be playing outside with my kids on weekdays after school and hiking with my family on weekends. Earth day is just around the corner,…
These last couple of weeks I have had a serious case of cabin fever. Actual fevers, snots galore, less sleep than normal and not as much time outside has led to me being a bit of a shit mom. I could tell myself those are all excuses for not being the mom I want to…
From a very young age, my daughter showed a strong interest in art. She’d choose scribbling away on a paper towel roll or gluing a million buttons on a piece of paper over anything else. It felt important to me to create a kid’s art space for her creativity in our small home. It’s easy…
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” It’s a pretty common, and seemingly innocent, question parents ask their children. But questioning children about the fate of their future is more loaded than we think. In the preface of her memoir, “Becoming,” Michelle Obama writes, “Now I think it is one of the…
I’ve never been big on New Year’s resolutions, but for the last few years I have taken some time to write some intentions for the upcoming year in the beginning of my planner. Most of the time they have been general – eat more veggies. Less screen time. Sometimes they have been more specific –…
Since my daughter has been in our lives, the holiday season, particularly Christmas, just hasn’t given me that festive feeling of holiday cheer. I thought, maybe, it was because I was missing the things that made Christmas “Christmas” for me growing up – being with my parents and siblings, opening gifts late on Christmas Eve…
Tomorrow, we celebrate Thanksgiving. We will likely gather around a table filled with food, surrounded by our large extended family, immediate family, or friends who’ve become family. So, what better time to reflect on all of the things for which we are grateful. We asked out contributors to share a little bit about what they…
Growing up I wasn’t super outdoorsy. My family would car camp or go canoeing a couple times a year, maybe. I always considered myself a “city girl” and thought for sure I was destined to call NYC my home. Then through the twist of events called life, I ended up living full-time in a camper,…